PHP: Include

PHP gives the ability to include contents of other files in your current file. Therefore, it is a usual practise to create a header file and call it header.php and inclde it in all consecutive files to ensure that the header of all your website looks consitent.

Example:

header.php

<a href="home.php">home</a>

<a href="tutorial.php">tutorials</a>

Now, the contents of this header.php can be included in any other page. Example index.php is:

 

<html>

<body>

<?php

include ("header.php");

?>

<p> Hi This is a practise page!! </p>

</body>

</html>

Now, the user would see the following code:

 

<html>

<body>

<a href="home.php">home</a>

<a href="tutorial.php">tutorials</a>

<p> Hi This is a practise page!! </p>

</body>

</html>

And the output would be:

This would give following output:

home tutorials

Hi This is a practise page!!

Same thing can be repeated for normal menus and footers.