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What is an Include?
ber Karen Balacek poses the
If you are familiar with basic
ollowing question. html you know that whatever
"I have a template with my content you put in the html
menubar and my banner on all my coding will be displayed through
pages. I change the template and an open browser. The content is
save it as the same template file placed inside html tags on the
that I used for creating all my same page you want to
pages. Is there a way I can apply display.
that to all my pages instantly or
An Include File contains
do I have to make the changes content that is LOCATED SOMEWHERE
manually for each page?"
ELSE instead of right there
The simple answer is to use an inside html tags of the page.
Include File. The difficult part
The contents of an Include
may be to understand how to use file will also be dispayed
them. Don't be intimidated by through an open browser just as
this however. Using an Include is if the content were right there
not really that complex when you in the html code. That "somewhere
understand the basics of how they else" is usually at a different
work and why.
location somewhere on your
A lot has been written about server.
this subject. Most is rather
Using specific php type
technical and at best difficult language, the html code tells
to understand. This article will your browser to go to
cover the basics of how an "anotherplace.html", grab the
Include File works, in easy to content and display part or all
understand language and explain of it in your browser.
how you can apply this technique
Why Use an Include File?
saving yourself time and effort
Why would you want to use an
Include File when you can audio etc.
accomplish the same thing in your
The format can be any format
html coding?
you use on your web page, ie..
There are a variety of reasons .txt, .html, .asp, .php etc.
for this, but this one tops my
A small piece of php code
list as the most beneficial.
(NOTE: Replace brackets [ ] with
For the sake of simplicity, < > below)
lets assume you have a 100 page
[?php
website and each one of those include('http://www.yourwebsite.c
pages displays the same page om/yourpageheader.html'); ?]
header. Lets also assume you just
replaces the standard code for
had a beautiful new page header your page header in your html
designed and you want it to code.
replace your old one.
[img
If you were use the src="http://yourwebsite.com/yourp
traditional methods of updating ageheader.jpg"]
your pages, you would be required
Now when you update your pages
to make changes to the html code you can make changes to ONE file
on 100 pages. That's a lot of to update hundreds. The beauty of
work. Even minor changes to that this is there are no limits to
many pages takes time to the number of Includes you can
accomplish.
use on one page.
By using an Include, you make
The Include File originated
the changes to the Include File, with the php language, but your
upload it to your server and it pages do NOT need to be in php to
automatically updates those 100 use them.
pages for you.
To use an Include File in your
The content inside an Include html or htm pages you need to add
can be anything you can put on a a small .htaccess file to your
webpage ie.. text, graphics, server. If you do not already
have .htaccess file on your
server, you can make one in google_ad_client =
Notepad or any text editor. "pub-8542272527121315";
Starting with a blank page, copy
and paste the following code.
#RemoveHandler .html .htm google_alternate_ad_url =
#AddType application/x-httpd-php "http://www.isnare.com/adsense-al
.php .htm .html t-728x90.php";
AddHandler
application/x-httpd-php .html google_ad_width = 728;
.htm
Save the file as .htaccess and google_ad_height = 90;
upload it to the same folder that
contains your index file. If you google_ad_format =
already have one, update it to "728x90_as";
include this information.
google_ad_type = "text";
border-color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #F5F7FB; google_color_border =
border-left: #BAC9FF 1px solid; "F5F7FB";
border-right: #BAC9FF 1px solid;
margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: google_color_bg = "F5F7FB";
10px;" valign="top"
align="center"> google_color_link =
"0000FF";
type="text/javascript">
type="text/javascript"
About the Author:
Copyright 2008 Heather Colman. Graphic Designer Heather Colman helps virtual assistants, coaches, and other professionals online bring visualization and depth to their products with custom 3d product images and website graphics. Visit her site at: CustomDesignGraphics.com
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