On Sunday 19 February 2006 08:40, httpd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > If you use only one page header for all your html files, you > can then use that one instance for all of the pages on your > site by including it with something like > > <?php require "../incs/page-head.php"; ?> That would be a very bad solution, several times over. Firstly, it means preprocessing. And why would one preprocess to that rather than to add in the required line directly? Or if future flexibility is an issue, to add it as SSI which can be enabled/ disabled at will without breaking the pages? Secondly, it loses flexibility. Not just a little, but hugely, because PHP - unlike SSI or any of the other apache-based solutions - doesn't run as a filter. Thirdly it imposes an extra load on the server. That could be quite modest, but for any user who has to ask the question in the first place, it's likely to be very substantial, because he's unlikely to have the expertise to use PHP without destroying cacheability. > at the top of each html page, where the <head>...</head> > section would normally reside. How many sites have identical <title>s on all pages? > Then, you only need to make one change to the included > page-head.php file, to affect all the pages on your site. SSI would do that more flexibly. As would mod_publisher or mod_layout, without requiring the pages to be edited in the first place. But as I already said, the best solution is almost certainly none of the above. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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