Re: PHP Includes and Echoes in Head Sections and Search Engines

I wrote:

? But suppose there's a certain page where I don't want the style sheet in ? the middle - the one I named MIDDLE. Is there a way to mark it in the ? include page, then instruct the main page to either not import it or ? replace it with nothing ("")?

Luke wrote:

youd have to use a variable, so in the main page do the following if($pagetoshow == 'withoutmiddle'){

    $includemiddle = FALSE;

}else{

    $includemiddle = TRUE; //(or false depending)

} and in the include do this: if($includemiddle == TRUE){

    echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/MIDDLE.css" rel="stylesheet"

type="text/css" />'; }

I think I just about have it. But I replaced the "middle" in both our examples with the page I'm REALLY trying to exclude - na/a1. Most pages on my site will have the following two style sheets: <link href="../../../../css/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="../../../../css/na/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> But some will only have the first one: <link href="../../../../css/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> So I applied your example to the head section of my main page and came up with this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <?php $statename = 'Alaska'; $postcode = 'ak'; $linkcode = 'world/na/us/ak'; $periods = '../../../../'; include ("../../../../includes/state/head.php"); if($pagetoshow == 'withoutna/a1'){

    $includena/a1 = FALSE;

}else{

    $includeana/a1 = TRUE; //(or false depending)

} ?> * * * * * * * * * * And below is all the code from the included page, head.php: <?php $todayDate = date("m-d-Y"); if($includeana/a1 == TRUE){

    echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/na/a1.css" rel="stylesheet"

type="text/css" />'; } echo '<title>Freedomware &gt; "$statename"</title>'; echo '<meta name="description" content="ZXZX versus Microsoft" />'; echo '<script src="' . $periods . 'js/swapclass.js" type="text/javascript"></script>'; echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'; echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/na/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'; if($includena/a1 == TRUE){

    echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/na/a1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />';

} echo '<link href="' . $periods . 'css/na/rockies.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'; ?> I haven't been able to exclude na/a1 yet, but everything in the included page was working right up until about the end, when I did something that knocked it out of action. Also, I got a "division by zero" error. Is that something that's caused by a mistake I made in writing code? I read a couple articles online that suggested it's a problem with Apache. Finally, is there a way to "validate" php, similar to validating pages for html and css?

and if you are echoing a variable, quotes around it arent needed you can just use echo $variable; instead of echo "$variable";

I got a little confused; did I do it right in the example above? Thanks!