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Tag on Entire Site; PHP. Is it possible?
Topic Started: Jun 24 2005, 05:15 PM (546 Views)
shockwave- Jun 24 2005, 05:15 PM Post #1
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 I'm creating a new site, and I want to add a tag to the bottom of every page on the entire site. I've seen things LIKE this done before in PHP, like on tutorial sites, or even Seth's site, where if you hover over a link, a caption will apear describing it.

I don't want to manually add the tag, that would be a pain, so is there a way to do this with PHP or, anything, really? If anyone could help, that'd be great.
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Ben Jun 24 2005, 05:22 PM Post #2
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 I'm not quite sure by what you mean by a "tag," but one of the simplest ways to add in global footers in PHP is to do the following:

Put the footer in a file and name it something like footer.php. Then put this code at the bottom of each page:

Code:
 
<?php include "footer.php";?>


You can even go so far as to set up your site so everything is processed through index.php, where a header is displayed, the content, and then the footer.

To illustrate, here is the content of my site's index.php (slightly modified):
Code:
 
<?php

//About Me
$page["about"] = array(
"src" => "about",
"title" => "About Me",
);

//Index
$page["idx"] = array(
"src" => "idx",
"title" => "Catalystica Studios",
);

$act = $_REQUEST["act"];

if (empty($act))
{
$act = "idx";
}

include "php/top.php";
include($page[$act]["src"].".php");
include "php/bottom.php";
?>

As you can see, I code specific information about each page into an array. Then I include the header file, the page itself, and the footer file.
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shockwave- Jun 24 2005, 07:27 PM Post #3
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 By tag, I mean an HTML element. Like say I wanted

<hr> to be at the bottom of every page. But thanks, I'll try it out.
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Ben Jun 24 2005, 08:01 PM Post #4
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shockwave-
June 24, 2005 06:27 PM
By tag, I mean an HTML element. Like say I wanted

<hr> to be at the bottom of every page. But thanks, I'll try it out.

Well then, putting "<hr>" in a file and using include() will indeed work. :yes:
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solinent Jun 24 2005, 08:48 PM Post #5
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 It's the same as adding the <hr> though...lol

Do you have a head template or something? You need some sort of include(), you could put at bottom if you had one at top i think(no nvm you need an include at bottom).

Just have a footer include.
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shockwave- Jun 24 2005, 11:21 PM Post #6
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 No, I wasn't actually going to use <hr>, it was an example.

Anyways, I got it working, thanks.
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solinent Jun 25 2005, 01:46 PM Post #7
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 Oh and if you use IIS they have an option where you can include footers and headers in every single page.
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bag Jun 29 2005, 08:01 PM Post #8
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 rather than manuly puting an include on every page of your site (if the navigtions not include based that is)

woulnt it be easyer just to use htaccess to do all the work for you?
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