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I'm working on my first php site, I'm running into an issue I can't see to figure out. I'm trying to have one php page that contains my structure, and others that inject their html inside, while retaining url changes so I can still direct link pages.
So far this is what I'm doing, but it doesn't seem efficient:
index.php
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<?php include("head.php"); ?>
<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Navigation header -->
<?php include("navigation.php"); ?>
<!-- Main container -->
<div id="MainContainer">
<?php include("home.php"); ?>
</div>
<!-- Footer -->
<?php include("footer.php"); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
about.php
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<?php include("head.php"); ?>
<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Navigation header -->
<?php include("navigation.php"); ?>
<!-- Main container -->
<div id="MainContainer">
About me!
</div>
<!-- Footer -->
<?php include("footer.php"); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This feels totally wrong, if I ever want to change my container class, or change the structure, I now have to do it in two places instead of one.
In ASP.net MVC I would have a Layout_Head.cshtml file that would contain my HTML structure and inside I can render views from different pages, the url changes but the layout is always rendered first and then the controller/actions take care of injecting the html of the needed views.
How do I replicate that in PHP?
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Usually people use php includes for templating more like this:
header.php
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
footer.php
</div> <!-- .container -->
</body>
</html>
about.php
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
... content goes here ...
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
This is so you don't need to continuously repeat the start/end tags on every template you make.
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