Designing the Layout

**BoardTng** · 05-08-2005, 11:21 PM

Ok, Ill try to explain this the best I can.

Ive been doing Iframe for quite awhile now and its really all i know how to do. To the point Im using them to save me the trouble of having to update every link on every page if you guys do know what i mean. Im wondering if there is another way out there that besides Iframes (shtml) would look professional and stop me from having to do that update every page link thing. Im not too sure but if somebody can help me, please respond or instant message me.

~ BoardTng

thx.

**stoot98** · 05-09-2005, 07:23 AM

You could use another language such as PHP to pull the links from a database. Or use the include() function to include one page which has all the links on it.

I know exactly what you mean and i think the database route is the one to go down.

**BoardTng** · 05-09-2005, 07:44 AM

Is there any way I could get somebody to show me how to do the php scripting to pull the links from the database? Id appriciate it.

**Coder-X** · 05-11-2005, 08:39 AM

you can use php includes . This way break page into parts . And each parts is loaded from a file . Modular aspect , ease to update is guaranteed . I always use this technique .

**desertland** · 05-11-2005, 09:12 AM

You could also use SSI to have your 'menu' code in one file, and then include that file from all the rest of your pages.

For example:

**Jared** · 05-11-2005, 04:59 PM

Why not set it in a variable? I know people that do that with CGI. I wish I knew PHP, I'd show you what I meant. This is what it looks like with a perl script:

Code:

$gallerylink = "http://www.whatever.com/gallery.html";

<<ENDHTML

<html>
<body>
<a href="$gallerylink">Click here to see my gallery</a>
</body>
</html>

ENDHTML;

Then when you need to change the link you simply change what the variable is assigned to.

**HKSTurbo** · 05-12-2005, 03:48 AM

That should work if not