Creating repeating headers and footers.

[austinthompson]

I know I am probably complicating this but I am looking for a way to code a header and footer to the exterme top and extreme bottom of my pages. I have seen it before but I have no idea how to do it from scratch. But I ore or less want to be able to edit my header or footer one time and it work every where.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

[trq]

Put your header and footer code in there own files then use include to include them.

[austinthompson]

Insert Duh here... I can not believe I had to ask that question. The minute I read your answer I could feel the sleep deprivation making me dumber. Thanks!

[austinthompson]

I do have an additional question... will google search and index the pages by the single header or do i need to make sure there is SEO material on every page?

 

[dragon_sa]

By passing a page variable to each page you could have some code in your header script use that to change the information in the header based on the page loaded

[redsmurph]

I tend to use a $page_title like so:

 

$page_title = "Some nice page";

include 'header.php';

 

This then affects <title> some of the meta data and is also echoed as "<h1>" . htmlspecialchars($page_title) . "</h1>"

 

If I don't set it, <title> become a generic site name, and no header title is shown for the page.

 

Cheers