Question

apology for this newbie question.

I have created an html page (dash.html) that uses the same header as the other pages.
it calls this PHP function <?php include 'header.php'; ?>

the dash.html contains a special <div> made specially for that page; and it must be placed inside the header.php

im trying to figure out how to enable/disable a certain div on a certain html page.

will it require a PHP conditional statement?

Answer 1

Yes. The easiest way is to include a conditional line in the header, and pass the checked variable from each page that calls header. So, in your dash.php (it can’t be a .html if it calls php, can it?):

<?php
    $includediv = true; // set to false, or leave out, if you don't want the div
    include('header.php');
?>

and in the header.php:

<?php
...some other code...
if($includediv){
    ...code to include div...
}
?>

This will continue to work as before for all other pages that call header.php.