Chapter 3 Creating Dynamic Web Sites Part 1

Large Sites ”complex sites demand compartmentalization of some HTML or PHP code”.

Require and Include require(‘filename.php’); require_once(‘filename.php’); include(‘filename.php’); include_once(‘filename.php’);

Require and Include *_once( ) version guarantees that the file in question is included only once If an include( ) does not work a warning with be printed in the browser and the script will continue to run. With require( ) an error message is printed and the script stops.

Require and Include Naming of included file – filename.inc.php – filename.inc.html

Template Script 3.1 on page 79 ndex.html ndex.html ch03\index.html

index.php Script 3.4 on page 82 ndex.php ndex.php ch03\index.php

header.html Script 3.2 on page 80 ch03\includes\header.html

footer.html Script 3.3 on page 81 ch03\includes\footer.html