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I have been learning syntax for PHP and practicing it. I come from a .NET background so masterpages always made things pretty easy for me when it came to headers and footers.
So far I have a mainHeader.php and mainFooter.php which have my head menu and my footer html. I created a mainBody.php and at the top I put
<?php include "mainHeader.php" ?>
and for the footer I put
<?php include "mainFooter.php" ?>
This worked perfectly and made me smile because my pages all came together nicely. the mainHeader has my <html> and <body> and my mainFooter has my closing tags for those.
Is this good practice?
871
I include my views from my controllers. I also define file locations to make maintenance easier.
config.php
define('DIR_BASE', dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/');
define('DIR_SYSTEM', DIR_BASE . 'system/');
define('DIR_VIEWS', DIR_SYSTEM . 'views/');
define('DIR_CTLS', DIR_SYSTEM . 'ctls/');
define('DIR_MDLS', DIR_SYSTEM . 'mdls/');
define('VIEW_HEADER', DIR_VIEWS . 'header.php');
define('VIEW_NAVIGATION', DIR_VIEWS . 'navigation.php');
define('VIEW_FOOTER', DIR_VIEWS . 'footer.php');
Now I have all the info I need just by including config.php.
controller.php
require '../config.php';
include DIR_MDLS . 'model.php';
$model = new model();
if ( $model->getStuff() ) {
$page_to_load = DIR_VIEWS . 'page.php';
}
else {
$page_to_load = DIR_VIEWS . 'otherpage.php';
}
include VIEW_HEADER;
include VIEW_NAVIGATION;
include DIR_VIEWS . $page_to_load;
include VIEW_FOOTER;
You can also do it the other way round. Have a main page with header/footer and include only the body.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
<?php include $page ?>
</body>
</html>
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