Question

I’m working on a site in php. Originally I had a lot of html pages but they were all very similar in that they had a heading, an image, and some text. I was able to consolidate my pages into one php page and pass in the heading and image name as GET variables. I wouldn’t want to pass a lot of text this way though. What’s the best way to do this? I was thinking of including the text from a text file but then I’d have a text file for every item. I also thought that I could have a database and read the text from there. What do you guys think?

Answer 1

According to me, it is better you use the database and just pass the ID’s, through the $_GET.
You can divide your page in three sections.

header.php // including all the header section

body.php // your main content, varying according the $_GET

footer.php // footer section

Thanks.