I want to have a specific region appear on all my pages . .

[pharmer4]

G'day

I want to have a specific piece of html appear on every page on my site.

I want to be able to edit this piece of html at will, without needing to go back and change all 400+ pages on my site.

Can this be done with php?

ie could a piece of php be written than contains the code I want to be able to edit and show on every page, and then on the page where I want that code to appear, have a piece of pho code that calls on the php file to display the html in question?

If so, is there anyone here who would feel like writing an example of what I need to do - if you do, just use XXXXXX as the html code that I am interested in appearing on all my pages.

I would need the following code . . . .

1) the code for a page (or whatever is appropriate) that contains the html code that I want to appear on my pages (say the code I am interested is XXXX)
2) the code that would appear in my pages at the point where i want XXXX to appear
3) anything else that is necessary to do this

thanks guys
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[Scott]

This is very easy and there are tons of tutorials on it but what you can do is...

Imagine the code is in a file called "include.html", then you would put it in the same directory as the file(s) it will be used in, and on the PHP pages you want it, just put:

[Rashy]

Just make sure that when you use the include function you use the right path. I've got it wrong many times

Lets say you have your base directory: /

Inside / is index.php, about.php, contact.php and the directories articles/ and includes/

so to get that piece of code from index.php, you would use include('includes/code.html'); but if you want to get that piece of code from a file that is inside /articles/ (say /articles/metallica.php) then you have to use include('../includes/code/html');

Of course using PHP like this means that all of your current pages written as basic html will have to have their names changed to whatever.php and you will have to insert include('path/includes/code.html); into every single file. If you want to automatically update all of your files, then I imagine there is a way to use PHP to "batch process" the files to replace to contents of code.html with the include function. That would have to be custom written though.
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[pharmer4]

thanks guys.

I need to change all my html to php anyway to install a comments code I just received, so that is not problems, I just wanted to be able to do something that would prevent me needing to ever do it again!!!!

the particular code I want to have show up using php will have simple table with "find us on the web" in the top cell, and in the second line, cells filled with graphics and links back to the various social sites I have created profiles on, such as myspace, bebo, etc etc. Since these things are coming out all the time, with varying popularity, I wanted to be able to add new ones and delete defunct ones at will, without needing to manually change every blood page!
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[pharmer4]

works well guys, although i've found that it works best if the file containing the code in question is a php file.
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[ClickFanatic]

You can also use simple server side includes, but that does require the files to end in .shtml. Although you can configure plain .html files to be parsed as .shtml.
To do so, put:

[pharmer4]

speed is definately something that I am interested in, BUT, my level of understanding means that reading that statement you made there does not make complete sense to me . . .

Basically, I don't know how to make the code you put up there specific for my site etc.
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[Ayana]

i tried using virtual a couple of days ago but it came up with an error about undefined function so i'm not sure if it works properly
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