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Asked: 2026-06-07T04:42:00+00:00

When designing a website in PHP, you typically have a header.php file that you

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When designing a website in PHP, you typically have a header.php file that you include in every page on the site. The header.php file would include the <head> tag (among other things). However, I often find that I need to put page-specific JavaScript within the <head> tag.

The way I’ve handled this in the past is by adding IF statements to my header to determine what pieces of JavaScript should be outputted (i.e. IF this is the home page, output the JavaScript needed for the home page, IF this is the about page, output the JavaScript needed for the about page, etc.).

This is probably a terrible way to do it. What is the standard practice?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, first of all, <script> tags do not need to be located in the header. It’s perfectly valid to put them anywhere in the HTML document.

    But if you’re determined to include them in the header, a simple solution is to declare a variable that the header should echo which contains your script tags. For example:

    <?php
$scripts = "<script src='script.js' type='text/javascript'></script>";
include("header.php");
?>

    And then your header.php script would like as follows:

    <html>
<head>
<!-- header stuff goes here -->
<?php /*echo out scripts */ echo $scripts; ?>
</head>
<body>
<!-- part of body goes here -->
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