Thanks Jay, I'll try it. I know how to include, but haven't seen any php code yet except what you've illustrated. Now I have the concept and will do some testing. I appreciate this list being available to ask specific php questions - and I thank you for your time and help. Much appreciated - ~ John PS. I unsubscribed and resubscribed so as to get individual responses. Am now definitely getting more mail than I know what to do with - :-) -----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:12 AM To: John Moss; Daniel Brown; Robert Cummings Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RE: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners [snip] Like - what is a 'header'? Everything prior to the <body> statement? I don't think that's what is meant... [/snip] A header/footer is a separate HTML/PHP page that is included with the page call; <?php include("header.html"); ....do stuff in the body.... include("footer.html"); ?> All you have to do is create the header and/or footer and include them with each page. Since the content is typically static in these included files they are cached and therefore loaded from cache each time they are called making things very quick. This is your very first step in creating reusable components for your web applications. You can see that this will become a very powerful tool/technique. -------------------------------------------- My mailbox is spam-free with ChoiceMail, the leader in personal and corporate anti-spam solutions. Download your free copy of ChoiceMail from www.digiportal.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
