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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:23:24+00:00

header.php <?php $conn = mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘-‘, ‘-‘); @mysql_select_db(‘accmaker’, $conn) or die(Unable to select database);

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header.php

<?php

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost', '-', '-');
@mysql_select_db('accmaker', $conn) or die("Unable to select database");

?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Mysite.com - <?php isset($pageTitle) ? $pageTitle : 'Home'; ?></title>
</head>
<body>

profile.php

require 'header.php';

$q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$username'");

$r = mysql_fetch_assoc($q);

$pageTitle = "Profile of $r[username]";

I think you understand what i want

I cant include header.php after the query, because i wont be connected to mysql

waht do you suggest other than having the connection snippet on every page

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  1. Editorial Team

    What do I suggest? A MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework like Kohana. If you don’t want to go that route, break your connection off into its own file:

    <?php

  # connect
  require_once("connection.php");

  # load page data array
  require_once("page-data.php");

?>
...
<title><?php print $page["title"]; ?></title>

    Note here how I have a $page array of data. This will be helpful when debugging later rather than having several independent variables. With an array of page data, I can quickly see all of the information laid out for any given page:

    print "<pre>";
print_r($page);
print "</pre>";

    Determining your title should be done within page-data.php, rather than on your page:

    $config["site_name"]   = "Bob's Shoe Mart";
$config["admin_email"] = "bob@shoemart.com";

/* query to get $row['title'] */

$page["title"] = (!empty($row["title"])) ? $row["title"] : $config["site_name"] ;
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