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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:50:48+00:00

I have been learning syntax for PHP and practicing it. I come from a

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I have been learning syntax for PHP and practicing it. I come from a .NET background so masterpages always made things pretty easy for me when it came to headers and footers.

So far I have a mainHeader.php and mainFooter.php which have my head menu and my footer html. I created a mainBody.php and at the top I put 

<?php include "mainHeader.php" ?>

and for the footer I put 

<?php include "mainFooter.php" ?>

This worked perfectly and made me smile because my pages all came together nicely. the mainHeader has my <html> and <body> and my mainFooter has my closing tags for those.

Is this good practice?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I include my views from my controllers. I also define file locations to make maintenance easier.

    config.php

    define('DIR_BASE',      dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/');
define('DIR_SYSTEM',    DIR_BASE . 'system/');
define('DIR_VIEWS',     DIR_SYSTEM . 'views/');
define('DIR_CTLS',      DIR_SYSTEM . 'ctls/');
define('DIR_MDLS',      DIR_SYSTEM . 'mdls/');
define('VIEW_HEADER',   DIR_VIEWS . 'header.php');
define('VIEW_NAVIGATION',   DIR_VIEWS . 'navigation.php');
define('VIEW_FOOTER',   DIR_VIEWS . 'footer.php');

    Now I have all the info I need just by including config.php.

    controller.php

    require '../config.php';
include DIR_MDLS . 'model.php';

$model = new model();
if ( $model->getStuff() ) {
    $page_to_load = DIR_VIEWS . 'page.php';
}
else {
    $page_to_load = DIR_VIEWS . 'otherpage.php';
}

include VIEW_HEADER;
include VIEW_NAVIGATION;
include DIR_VIEWS . $page_to_load;
include VIEW_FOOTER;
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