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Microsoft Word - Core PHP Programming Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites

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Listing 20.9 Page Content


This is the body of the page.

It's just a bit of HTML.


Listing 20.10 Page-Building Script


<?
/*
* include code to open HTML page
/
require("20-7.html");


/*
* include content
/
require("20-9.html");


/*
* include code to close HTML page
/
require("20-8.html");
?>


In this way, HTML and PHP are separated into modules. In this example I have hard-
coded the inclusion of a two-line HTML file, but I could just as easily have included the
color tables from Listing 20.2. The HTML in Listing 20.7 can be reused from page
to page, and if I need to add something to every page on the site, I need to edit only that
one file. I might want to add the PHP function from Listing 20.1. It will then be
available for use inside the code from Listing 20.9.


It may occur to you that this approach is exhibiting another pattern. Every page on the
site will simply become three calls to require. The first and last calls will always be
the same. In fact every page on the site will vary simply by the name of the file included
in the second require statement. This takes us beyond the issue of integrating HTML
and PHP and into the structural design of a site. It is possible to create a site that has
exactly one PHP script. This idea is developed in Chapter 21, "Design."


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