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Asked: 2026-05-29T04:59:48+00:00

So I have this PHP website that I am working on that using templates.

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So I have this PHP website that I am working on that using templates. Any page is divided into three parts: header, content and footer. Each part is represented by a .php file.

Header:

<html>
<head><link_to_some_css /></head>
<body>
<div id="menuBar">
    xxx
</div>

Content:

<?php include("header.php") ?>
    <div id="someHTMLContent">xxx</div>
    <!-- 
        How do I link an external CSS stylesheet from within here?
    -->
<?php include("footer.php") ?>

Footer:

</body></html>

The <link> tag should resides within the <head>, but being within content.php I have no access to the head of the html.

Sorry if this has been asked, but I am a little new to implementing a framework-less PHP project in an MVC architecture (hence trying to separate CSS JavaScript PHP files for a better structure)

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want something included in the header then make it a global variable before including.

    $header = 'Add something to the head tag';
include('header.php');

    In the header.php:

    <head>
<?php
if (isset($header)) {
    echo $header;
}
?>
<!-- Add global headers -->
</head>

    You could add a more robust solution by defining functions to create CSS tags given a link and then add them into the global $header string. These would need to be included from a core.php file included before the header include.

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