Creating PHP File for Repeated Content

**mpage109** · Feb 14, 2013 21:44

I'm not sure if this is where I should put it as I'm just new here. But I just want to know if it is possible to create a .php file for the repeated content? An example would be, if I want to change the promo date of a certain coupon in the index and would like that change to take effect to all of the pages of the website by only editing the index page, how can I do it? Is it possible to do it in a .php file?

What I want is to lessen the time of editing each page and just edit the .php file instead of going through all of the 50+ pages of the website.

If this is possible, how can I do that and which particular code should I use?

I hope this question makes sense.

I really need help on this matter so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

**mpage109** · Feb 14, 2013 22:30

I hope someone could help me on this. I really need to learn more about this as I'm trying to work on this page. I'm slowly learning PHP and I know that I still need to know more. This is somewhat complicated for me.

**rajeev13** · Feb 14, 2013 22:42

Originally Posted by mpage109

I'm not sure if this is where I should put it as I'm just new here. But I just want to know if it is possible to create a .php file for the repeated content? An example would be, if I want to change the promo date of a certain coupon in the index and would like that change to take effect to all of the pages of the website by only editing the index page, how can I do it? Is it possible to do it in a .php file?

What I want is to lessen the time of editing each page and just edit the .php file instead of going through all of the 50+ pages of the website.

If this is possible, how can I do that and which particular code should I use?

I hope this question makes sense.

I really need help on this matter so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Just Break the page into chunks like : header,footer ,center ,a separate php page.
Include them to build a webpage, so u have change only these files.
u can also call a function to show the promocode on ur site ,where function will be in another php page.

**mpage109** · Feb 14, 2013 22:47

Originally Posted by rajeev13

Just Break the page into chunks like : header,footer ,center ,a separate php page.
Include them to build a webpage, so u have change only these files.
u can also call a function to show the promocode on ur site ,where function will be in another php page.

Thank you rajeev13 for your fast reply. But may I know how I will be able to break the pages in chunks? What code should I use? I'm really new to PHP and I am really not that confident to work on these codes.

**rajeev13** · Feb 15, 2013 01:12

Originally Posted by mpage109

Thank you rajeev13 for your fast reply. But may I know how I will be able to break the pages in chunks? What code should I use? I'm really new to PHP and I am really not that confident to work on these codes.

let say we have a index.php that shows the default page .look out below the sample code :
index.php

Code:

<?
session_start();
include_once('includes/headerData.php');
include_once('style.css');
?>

</head>
<body>
<?
include_once('includes/header.php');
?>
	<div id="center" > 
            
        </div>
      
      
      
   <? include_once('includes/footer.php');?>
	
	</body>
</html>

headerData.php

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Chela+One|Finger+Paint|Montserrat+Subrayada|Cherry+Swash&subset=latin,latin-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

header.php

Code:

<? 
session_start();

?>
<div id="header">
			<div id="h1">
                            <a href="index.php"> <h2 id="h1" align="center">Sample web page</h2></a>
			</div>	
 </div>

footer.php

Code:


<div id="footer" align="center" >&#169 rajeev ranjan </div>

**mpage109** · Feb 15, 2013 08:19

What if there's only index.html in the file? How should I start on the index.php file?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 15, 2013 08:38

To keep this really simple, you could create a php page, say 'updates.php', with just the data you want to update regularly,e.g.

PHP Code:


<?php
$promo_date = '15FEB13';
$other_item = 'other'; //etc. etc.
?>

Then in all the pages that require that info, add the line:

PHP Code:


include('updates.php');

Then those variables and their values will be available in your other pages.

**mpage109** · Feb 15, 2013 09:04

Originally Posted by 2ndmouse

To keep this really simple, you could create a php page, say 'updates.php', with just the data you want to update regularly,e.g.

PHP Code:


<?php
$promo_date = '15FEB13';
$other_item = 'other'; //etc. etc.
?>

Then in all the pages that require that info, add the line:

PHP Code:


include('updates.php');

Then those variables and their values will be available in your other pages.

Thank you 2ndmouse for this very simple code and explanation. I kind of understand it now a little.

So on that second code, will I just put this code "include('updates.php'); " anywhere in each of the html page of the website? Of course in the location where I want that updates.php to appear in the webpage. Is that it?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 15, 2013 09:16

No. To use php code in your pages, the pages must be page.php not page.html

For example:

If your index page is index.html you can add the following code above your html :

PHP Code:


<?php

include('updates.php');

?>

<Your html here>

Then rename the page index.php
Your server should load that automatically if its directory is loaded in the browser.

You can use the included values in your html by inserting <?php echo $promo_date ?> where ever you need that value to appear.

Hope that helps

**mpage109** · Feb 15, 2013 10:11

I renamed the index.html to index.php but it's no longer opening. What wrong thing must I have done here?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 15, 2013 10:39

Did you add the php code to the top of that page?

PHP Code:


<?php 

include('updates.php'); 

?>

**mpage109** · Feb 15, 2013 10:47

Yes I did but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. Here it is....

php_include.png

**2ndmouse** · Feb 15, 2013 12:17

Seems your image will take a while for approval.

Your index.php file should look something like this:

PHP Code:


<?php

include('updates.php');

?>

<html><head>

</head><body>

Your content

</body></html>

If that fails, create a file named phpinfo.php, insert the following code to that page:

PHP Code:


<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL

phpinfo();

?>

Upload the page to your site and run it in your browser. You should see displayed all current PHP settings on your server. If you don't get this displayed, then it probably means that PHP is not installed on your server.

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 06:41

I don't know what happened but when I opened the homepage I got this message on my screen: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/08/6277108/html/airconditioningokc/updates.php on line 6

I just followed your instruction but I still get errors. So how do I install PHP in my server?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 16, 2013 07:21

That looks like a php error, so I guess php must be installed already. Did you run the phpinfo file yet?

The image of your code is still pending approval, so I haven't yet seen your file contents. Can you paste your file contents between [PHP] tags in your next post here, so that I can see what you have there.

Meanwhile, here's one to try:

First, create the file: updates.php with the code below and upload to your server.

PHP Code:


<?php

$promo_date = '15 FEB 2013';

?>

Then create a file: test.php and upload it to your server in the same directory as updates.php.

Code for test.php:

PHP Code:


<?php 

include('updates.php'); 

?> 

<html><head> 

</head><body> 

<?php echo $promo_date; ?> 

</body></html>

Then run test.php in your browser - it should display the promo date

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 07:48

Ok it displayed the promo date correctly. This is what showed in the test.php page:

PHP Code:


15 FEB 2013

And this is what's in that pending image:

PHP Code:


<?php

include('updates.php');

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

But I already changed it with:

PHP Code:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<?php

include('updates.php');

?>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

and then phpinfo file but this error message appeared:

PHP Code:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/08/6277108/html/airconditioningokc/updates.php on line 6

**2ndmouse** · Feb 16, 2013 07:52

Originally Posted by mpage109

and then phpinfo file but this error message appeared:

PHP Code:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/08/6277108/html/airconditioningokc/updates.php on line 6

The error is in file: updates.php

What have you got in that file?

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 08:01

Oh this was what's in the updates.php file:

PHP Code:


<?php 

$promo_date = '15 FEB 2013'; 

$analytics_code = '<script type="text/javascript">



  var _gaq = _gaq || [];

  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-20639892-2']);

  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);



  (function() {

    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;

    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

  })();



</script>'

?>

I thought that I could also include the analytics code there. Because my goal was to also put the analytics code in every page through a php file so I thought this was ok.

**2ndmouse** · Feb 16, 2013 08:06

Yes, that shouldn't be a problem.

You've forgotten the semi-colon at the end of your string

</script>'
?>

should be:

</script>';
?>

That's what php is complaining about.

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 08:09

Oh is that it? Ok let me try it again and update you. Thank you very much. I'm really learning here.

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 08:31

OK so this is exactly what put in the updates.php

PHP Code:


<?php

$coupon_date = 'Offer expires last day of October 2013! Limit 1 per Client per year. Not valid with other offers.';

$analytics_code = '<script type="text/javascript">



  var _gaq = _gaq || [];

  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-20639892-2']);

  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);



  (function() {

    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;

    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

  })();



</script>';

?>

...then edited the above portion of the index.php with this:

PHP Code:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<?php

include('updates.php');

?>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

...and also edited the portion of the page where I wanted these to be placed:

PHP Code:


<?php echo $analytics_code ?>



and



<?php echo $coupon_date ?>

...then uploaded both updates.php and index.php, yet I still get this error message:

PHP Code:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/08/6277108/html/airconditioningokc/updates.php on line 6

What mistake must I have done?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 16, 2013 08:56

PHP is objecting to the string contents. In your google script, I've replaced all the inner single-quotes with double-quotes, as follows:

PHP Code:


<?php
$promo_date = '15FEB13';
$analytics_code = '<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-20639892-2"]);
  _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement("script"); ga.type = "text/javascript"; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://ssl" : "http://www") + ".google-analytics.com/ga.js";
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>';
?>

See how the strings in the [PHP] tags are all red now - an unbroken string. It should run ok now.

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 09:08

Wow! This is great! It's working real fine now! Thanks a bunch!!!

So my next step now is to implement that command to all of the pages of the website. How do I do that? Should I rename all html extension pages with .php then?

**2ndmouse** · Feb 16, 2013 09:25

Yes, add

PHP Code:


<?php 

include('updates.php'); 

?>

to all the pages that need the updates info and save them as .php files.

Then in your html, insert the php values:

HTML Code:

<html><head><title></title>
<?php echo $analytics_code ?> <!--assuming the google javascript should be inside the <head> tags-->
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $coupon_date ?> <!-- this can be in the body like this or as a value in a form or in the cell of a table, anywhere really. -->
</body></html>

**mpage109** · Feb 16, 2013 09:32

Should I also include these comments:



and



or even without those comments it's fine?

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