How do I call onto a separate header.php?

Question

To be honest I do not understand PHP just yet. But what I am trying to achieve sounds easy in my head.

Here is the code at the top of my wordpress single.php file:

<?php get_header(); ?>

I have created a separate header i.e header2.php.

I want to know what do I need to write at the top of my single.php template to call header2.php instead of header.php?

Answer 1

If you want to have header-2.php (and not header2.php) you have to call:

<?php get_header('2'); ?>

See this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_header