Question

I have created a few php files Following are their names:

1. standard_head.php (which contains basic standard html code)
2. header.php
3. navbar.php
4. sidebar.php
5. footer.php
6. standard_footer.php (which contains closing html tags)

Page content will vary in every page and would also include html content.

I am trying to create a lot of php pages which will use all of the above pages directly.

Now I can use them directly using include statement for each of them, but I was wondering if it was possible to include all of them together with one just statement ?

<?php include('../includes/standard_head.php'); ?>
        <?php include('includes/header.php'); ?>
            <div id="wrapper">
                <?php include('includes/nav.php'); ?>
                <div id="content">
                <!-- my page content -->
                </div> <!-- end #content -->
                <?php include('includes/sidebar.php'); ?>
            </div> <!-- End #wrapper -->
        <?php include('includes/footer.php'); ?>
<?php include('../includes/standard_footer.php'); ?>

Answer 1

You could so this (note that this is a very basic example and that I wouldn’t use this myself without taking into account meta tags, page titles etc.)

template.php

<?php include('../includes/standard_head.php'); ?>

<?php include('includes/header.php'); ?>

    <div id="wrapper">

        <?php include('includes/nav.php'); ?>

            <div id="content">
                <?php echo $content; ?>
            <!-- my page content -->
            </div> <!-- end #content -->

        <?php include('includes/sidebar.php'); ?>

    </div> <!-- End #wrapper -->

    <?php include('includes/footer.php'); ?>

<?php include('../includes/standard_footer.php'); ?>

Then, on a page (say index.php, for example):

index.php

<?php
$content = '<h1>Welcome</h1>';
include 'template.php';
?>

P.S: If you go down this route, make sure that you check out the Output Control Functions first.