Looking for basic header/footer script

**JimF** · Thu 25 Jan '01, 6:51pm

Make your header file, name it header.php (or whatever you want). Make your footer file, name it footer.php - or whatever you want.

In your page (index.php, for example), in the location you want your header, put this:

Code:

<?php  include("header.php"); ?>

In the location you want to put your footer, put this:

Code:

<?php include("footer.php"); ?>

Now, upload header.php, footer.php, and index.php to your server, and run index.php from your browser. If it was done correctly, you should see the contents of both your header and your footer files, along with whatever content goes on the page.

HTH

-jim

**YellowKard** · Thu 25 Jan '01, 7:22pm

Thanks a lot, thats exactly what I was needing to know, one question though, for the include do I need to use the system (absolute) or url (relitive) path?

**Godin** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 1:51am

relative path works fine

**YellowKard** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 3:53am

great

**YellowKard** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 2:54pm

Considering the future how could I call my varibles (such as the path for header.php and footer.php) from an external file

in other words say I got $header and $footer defined in another file, how could I define and call them so when I just use $header it prints the location of header.php in my output.

**chrispadfield** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 3:51pm

you would have to

Code:

require ("config.php");

where in config.php you have set

$footer = "/includes/footer.php";
$header = "/includes/header.php";

and then just do

include ($footer");

i think that works, if wrong someone will point it out.

**YellowKard** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 4:06pm

thanks, you guys help me figure out something I couldn't do with 4 php tuturials

**Freddie Bingham** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 4:36pm

this is what I use:

Code:

<?
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/forums");
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/forums/global.php");
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/include");

if (!file_exists("$file.html")) $file = "404";

$output="{htmldoctype}
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$bbtitle</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"1\">
<tr><td align=\"left\" width=\"100%\">
<img src=\"http://www.chins-n-quills.com/forums/images/closedfolder.gif\" border=0 width=14 height=11>
<b><FONT face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http://www.chins-n-quills.com/forums/index.php\">$bbtitle</A></font><
/b>
<img src=\"http://www.chins-n-quills.com/forums/images/closedfolder.gif\" border=0 width=14 height=11>
<b><FONT face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica\" size=\"2\">$file
</font></b>
</td></tr></table><br>";

$output .=
implode('',file("http://www.chins-n-quills.com/include/$file.html"));

$output .= "<br>$footer
</body>
</html>";

print dovars($output);
?>

That is called include.php and I call it like include.php?file=Privacy and it would load Privacy.html and place it inside my header/footer which maintains the look of my forum. The $footer and $header are supplied from global.php through the normal vbulletin routines. I use this so I can keep track of users on my site and display them on the forum index. When we get a chance to write who's online for vb2.1 than this can also be integrated into that to show where user's are outside your main forum.

**YellowKard** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 4:46pm

Very cool, I can see how to edit it and all but I was just curious about how you learned php, I'm wanting to end up being able to create my own scripts and not just edit others.

**YellowKard** · Fri 26 Jan '01, 4:48pm

Oh and one more thing, I'd like to comment how vB just resizes the reply that takes up more then the window width instead of the all the posts, unlike any other bulletin board I've seen.

**YellowKard** · Wed 31 Jan '01, 5:02pm

Code:

<?php
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/beta/config"); 
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/beta/config/config.php"); 

// Page Settings

///////////////////
$title="This is a test";
$keywords="test,tester,testing";
$description="This is the description of a test";
///////////////////

include ("$header");
print "

This is a <b>test</b>.

";
include ("$footer");
?>

config.php contains:

<?php
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/beta/config");
$header = "header.php";
$footer = "footer.php";
?>

header.php contains:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE><? $title ?></TITLE>
<META name="description" content="<? $description ?>">
<META name="keywords" content="<? $keywords ?>">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080">

and footer.php contains:

Code:

</BODY>
</HTML>

My server uses php 4 if that matters on how it should be coded.

**YellowKard** · Thu 1 Feb '01, 6:14pm

I swear I'll help others with the info I learn if someone helps me

**chrispadfield** · Thu 1 Feb '01, 6:22pm

first of you need to tell us what is going wrong.

I think the first problem is

("/config/config.php");

change it to

Code:

("config/config.php");

this is a path thing also i think this would work

Code:

("/beta/config/config.php");

but you may even have to do:

chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/beta/config");
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/beta/config/config.php");

not sure, try them, tell me error messages you get for each and i will try and help.

**chrispadfield** · Thu 1 Feb '01, 6:24pm

and it should be

include("$variable");

ie, both quotes, it was my mistake earlier one.

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