RE: [PHP] Include Files in HTML

"Bob McConnell" wrote: > From: sono-io at fannullone.us > >> In my readings, I've run across examples showing include files > being >> called from within the <head></head> tags, and other examples showing > >> them called within <body></body>. I've always put them in the header > >> section myself, but I was wondering if one is better than the other, >> or is it just personal preference? > > Depends on what you are including. The only tags that can be inside the > head are <base>, <link>, <meta>, <script>, <style>, and > <title>. > Everything else is either body or prologue. > > The full specs can be found at > <http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp>. > > Bob McConnell Sure enough. What the OP might not have realized: In the end, what PHP evaluates to, is a stream of html, script, css etc text/data, which is sent to the browser. PHP's include( <file> ) statement inserts the content of <file> here-and-now. You can even put the include statement within a for loop in order to include something multiple times... In that sense it is more like a /function/ and really different from cpp's #include /directive/. <file> can contain PHP code, which is evaluated as if it was here-and-now in the including PHP file; it can contain text/data, which is appended to the text/data stream being produced. All in all, to PHP the spot of file inclusion is not interesting, as long as the resulting PHP code and/or stream data is meaningful. Now back to you, Bob :-) Regards, Joost.