Comments on: PHP Includes for Non-Developers

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:23:56 +0000

Hey David. The reason why I say it is better for smaller sites is that, in my opinion, larger sites (30+ pages) that you do not want to maintain should be built on some CMS platform. That is the only reason – the includes will work great on a 100+ page site if the client does not wish to implement a CMS.

Cheers,
B

By: David

David — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:23:10 +0000

thanks for the fast response bret! im setting up a store for my cousins shop, there could be a good 100+ plus pages worth of products but im using romancart rather than complicated e-commerce software. i noticed you say its useful for “smaller html websites” however mine is going to end up large but i just want it to be easy to update the header area, sidebar and footer in one file as opposed to editing hundreds. you think this technique will work ok for this?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:09:18 +0000

Depends – if the meta is identical for each page then you will want to keep it in the included file where the rest of your head tags are. If this info needs to be different for each page then no, you will need to leave the head tags on each of the pages. This also applies to page titles; if you want to have each page with a separate title you need to be sure the title tags are left on each page.

Bret

By: David

David — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:01:45 +0000

hi great article, i have a question though.. should i keep the meta description in every file along with the title tag or is it ok to put meta descriptions, tags and everything else in the header.php?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:42:11 +0000

Glad to hear this helped Lbug!

By: Lbug

Lbug — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:15:55 +0000

Thanks for that, I think my site is desperately in need of this – it’s a killer having to update every single page individually.