Adding Repetitive Content Using PHP

To illustrate how powerful scripting like PHP can be for including content I am going to create a web page entirely from included files.

 In effect I will be creating the beginnings of a content management system.

What you will see here you will see in systems like Wordpress and Joomla etc, however much more complex.

The workhorse is a simple PHP include statement as you will see. What I am going to show is a simple web page split into three components

Here is the Index.php that pulls the pages in:

See how simple it is. Here are the three pages that it includes:

Here is what it looks like when you open the index.php page

Resources:

• Starting PHP
• Using PHP for Site Navigation
• Handling Repetitive Content