Creating a PHP header footer

Question

I m designing a relatively simple site for a friend   I would like to impliment php so that he can change his header footer without having to go back through every file   Problem is  I m pretty much totally unfamiliar with how php works   Is there a simplistic way to do this  I ve seen a few answers for how to make a php header but they all seem different and I haven t had much success   I m not saying they don t work  I probably did it wrong  but the simpler in this case  the better   Thanks

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You can do it by using include once   function in php  Construct a header part in the name of header php and construct the footer part by footer php  Finally include all the content in one file   For example   header php   lt html gt   lt title gt   lt link href  sample css  gt    footer php   lt  html gt    So the final files look like  include once  header php     body content The body content changes based on the file dynamically   include once  footer php

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You can use this for header  Important  Put the following on your PHP pages that you want to include the content   lt  php   at top  require  header php        gt    lt  php    at bottom  require  footer php      gt   You can also include a navbar globaly just use this instead    lt  php     At top  require  header php        gt     lt  php    At bottom  require  footer php       gt    lt  php    Wherever navbar goes  require  navbar php       gt   In header php    lt  DOCTYPE html gt    lt html lang  quot en quot  gt    lt head gt       lt meta charset  quot utf-8 quot  gt    lt meta name  quot viewport quot  content  quot width device-width  initial-scale 1  shrink-to-fit no quot  gt    lt  head gt    lt body gt    Do Not close Body or Html tags   Include html here    lt  php    Or more global php here      gt   Footer php  Code here   lt  php   code    gt   Navbar php   lt p gt  Include html code here lt  p gt   lt  php    Include Navbar PHP code here     gt   Benifits   Cleaner main php file  index php  script  Change the header or footer  etc to change it on all pages with the include    Good for alerts on all pages etc    Time Saving  Faster page loads  you can have as many files to include as needed  server sided

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Besides just using include   or include once   to include the header and footer  one thing I have found useful is being able to have a custom page title or custom head tags to be included for each page  yet still have the header in a partial include  I usually accomplish this as follows   In the site pages    lt  php   PageTitle  New Page Title    function customPageHeader     gt     lt  --Arbitrary HTML Tags-- gt   lt  php    include once  header php       body contents go here  include once  footer php      gt    And  in the header php file    lt  doctype html gt   lt html gt     lt head gt       lt meta http-equiv  content-type  content  text html  charset UTF-8  gt       lt title gt  lt    isset  PageTitle     PageTitle    Default Title   gt  lt  title gt       lt  -- Additional tags here -- gt       lt  php if  function exists  customPageHeader           customPageHeader           gt     lt  head gt     lt body gt    Maybe a bit beyond the scope of your original question  but it is useful to allow a bit more flexibility with the include

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the simpler  the better    index php   lt    if  empty   SERVER  QUERY STRING           name  index      else       name basename   SERVER  QUERY STRING          file  txt    name   htm    if  is readable  file        include  header php     readfile  file     else      header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found      exit       gt    header php   lt a href  index php  gt Main page lt  a gt  lt br gt   lt a href  about gt About lt  a gt  lt br gt   lt a href  links gt Links lt  a gt  lt br gt   lt br gt  lt br gt     the actual static html pages stored in the txt folder in the page htm format

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Just create the header php file  and where you want to use it do    lt  php include  header php      gt    Same with the footer  You don t need php tags in these files if you just have html   See more about include here   http   php net manual en function include php

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