a few php design wishes...

**cdr560** · Dec 21, 2002 22:03

Well google has failed me in this matter but luckily pointed me towards these forums

I have two things that I would like to be able to do without too much of a challenge for a newb such as myself. (btw I have tried postnuke, phpnuke, all those etc... dont like em and they are too slow to run off a p200mmx in-house server

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Well here are the two things that I would like to be able to do with php and mysql if needed:

1)I am currently likeing this type of design for a new site: www.rgibbs.no-ip.com/new.php I would like to create one template for the outside frames (or tabels...whatever is better) and then have that present on all pages within the site so that if I update some of the navigation frames (or tabels) the main central frame of each individual frame is simply applied to the new outer frames. Does this make any sense? Then all I need to do for each individual page is work on the one central frame that contains all the unique text and or images for that individual page. And if I were to need to update a link or something of that nature I would only have to do it once. Is there a way to do this?

2)Also I have seen where people have news on their main site that they seem to post rather than go into the php or html file and edit in. I have tried phpnuke etc... Is there any other thing that I could integrate into my main site and then use a gui interface or program to post new news?

thanks much for any help or links

**ian0502** · Dec 22, 2002 15:20

I'm not sure if I have understood you correctly, but I think I might.

1) It seems to me that you are simply wanting to have a template where you can change one item and have it apply to the rest of te pages. Here's how I have my template set up:

PHP Code:


<html>

<head><title></title></head>

<body>

<table width=100%>

  <tr>

    <td colspan="2"><? include "header.php" ?></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td><? include "navigation.php" ?></td>

    <td><!-- Main Body Text Goes Here --></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td colspan="2"><? include "footer.php"></td>

  </tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

Of course, this has been greatly simplified to show you the basic jist of it all, but I hope you see what I mean.

As far as the news feed thingie, I can't help you on that one. Good luck and I hope that I have helped you somewhat.

**cdr560** · Dec 23, 2002 13:02

thanks a bunch ian that works perfectly for me

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 13:06

Glad I could be of assistance.

**cdr560** · Dec 23, 2002 15:07

ohh i got one question about it. Right now it looks like this: www.rgibbs.no-ip.com/test/ is there a way i could have it load them centered?

thanks

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 15:11

Yeah that's easy. Just insert a align="center" tag in the table tag as seen below:

PHP Code:




<html>

<head><title></title></head>

<body>

<table width=100% align="center">

  <tr>

    <td colspan="2"><? include "header.php" ?></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td><? include "navigation.php" ?></td>

    <td><!-- Main Body Text Goes Here --></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td colspan="2"><? include "footer.php"></td>

  </tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

**cdr560** · Dec 23, 2002 15:17

hmm its not working heres what I have:

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 15:21

Well that's odd. Is the link that you are testing this on still http://www.rgibbs.no-ip.com/test/? Also, you might want to go ahead and remove that last set of empty <tr></tr> tags at the bottom of your code.

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 15:24

Also, I'm not sure if this matters, but you might want to remove the <html><head></head><body></body></html> tags from all the included PHP files since the template file will already contain these tags. Just a thought.

**cdr560** · Dec 23, 2002 15:28

that is the whole file that code...nothing else so for the moment I am keeping the html tags...

file still here www.rgibbs.no-ip.com/test/index.php and i removed the two tr tags

weird that it doesnt center

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 15:31

That is odd that it doesn't center. It really might be the fact that the topframe.php also calls <html> and <body> etc., but I'm not really sure. I only noticed it because I did a "View Source" and saw how many times <html> and the others were called.

**cdr560** · Dec 23, 2002 23:23

okay well I got it how I want it now. The php code looks like so (for the entire page):

and it is here: www.rgibbs.no-ip.com/test

now the one thing I need to figure out in order to get it to work is how to have the page I want go into the grey space below and to the right of the two nav bars.

so how do I do this?

thanks so much for all the help

**ian0502** · Dec 23, 2002 23:33

Well, the way I did it was with the code block that I gave you earlier. I simply place the content in the area that says .

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