Solved: How do set a page within a page

skibum35 · 17-Nov-2005, 04:29 AM #1

Can someone help me.

I am trying to set up a website using a CSS layout with 3 columns, header and footer.

It will be a combination of client side and server side.

Could someone tell me how I can include a page containing say the header details onto the viewed page without having to code each individual page.

I have looked around everywhere and cannot find the answer.

Thanks.

php guy · 17-Nov-2005, 01:45 PM #2

By header details, do you simple mean the top of the page, or the actual meta header stuff? Either way, make a page called header.php(if using php), put all the header content in there, then include it at the top of the pages with
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
Or with asp,

skibum35 · 17-Nov-2005, 03:15 PM #3

Thanks for the reply php guy.

I was also thinking about using php, but how do I set out tables within php.

What I mean is that my banner is sliced and I was going to put it into a table as it includes nav buttons as well as images.

Same as the side columns. Was thinking that they would be tidier if in a table.

I know these are basic questions, but that is where my knowledge is at for the time being.

php guy · 17-Nov-2005, 04:20 PM #4

You just write it all the html in the include file as you would in a normal html page. For example, say you want a page like this,

HTML Code:

<html> <head> <title>My page</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="js.js"></script> </head> <body> <table><tr><td>Head</td><td>Sliced></td><td>Image</td></tr> <tr><td>Side bar stuff</td> <td colspan="2">Content
Bla bla bla bla</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3">Some footer</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>

You could copy all the stuff above the content and put it in header.php, so header.php would look like this,

Code:

<html>
<head>
<?php echo $headstuff; ?>
</head>
<body>
<table><tr><td>Head</td><td>Sliced></td><td>Image</td></tr>
<tr><td>Side bar stuff</td>
<td colspan="2">

Then have the footer.php look like this,

Code:

</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Some footer</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Then have the actual page look something like this,

Code:

<?php
$headstuff='<title>My page</title><script type="text/javascript" src="js.js"></script>';
include('header.php);
?>
Content
bla bla bla bla
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>

And make the $headstuff= what ever you want in the head, like stylesheets, js, metas, and what ever. Then make more pages like that, and then just change the content and he headstuff.

Now just edit the header.php and footer.php to what ever fits what you want.

I really hope that made sence.

skibum35 · 02:35 AM

Thanks phpguy,

Sorry for not coming back sooner. Got called into work.

That has helped some. I will work through it now.

In the meantime, I'll include the page text that I want to use and will attach the stylesheet.

The borders etc have not been worked on yet, I want to be able to get it all working first and tidy it up later.

<html >

<title>Home</title>

<head>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/pagelayout_1.css" type="text/css" media="all"></link>
<style type="text/css" media="all"></style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="outer">
<div id="header">Header</div>
<div id="left"><p>Left Content</p></div>
<div id="right"><p>Right content</p></div>
<div id="centrecontent"></div>
<div id="clearfooter"> </div>
</div>
<div id="footer"> -Footer -</div>

</body>

</html>

zoetrope · 25-Nov-2005, 03:36 AM #6

That helped me anyway, and I wasn't even looking for a solution. Nicely explained, thank you.

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