Using a single php include to include your page's header

**MikeRoweforpres** · 04-26-2008, 10:35 PM

Hey guys I recently got into PHP and after a little thinking I realized that with includes it would be possible to just have a single page with all the header information on it. What I mean by this is not just anything from <head> to </head>, but I have a navbar, and at least 20-30kb of code that never really changes from page to page and I just use a single include that links to that file instead of keeping all that code on every file. I am implementing it right now and I just wanted to ask you guys if this would cause any problems? Such as slower load times or anything like that before i implement it on my entire site (I already did a test page and it works fine). I dunno its just that its so god **** easy and saves me tons of trouble so there has to be some catch. If not then hell yea! Here is my site for those curious.

http://www.starcrafted.org

**solomongaby** · 04-27-2008, 03:07 AM

including files does not slow the script down, it does but to a verry small amount that is not felt by the user.

I would recomend to look into a template system, its better to use one, then to have the presentation side (HTML) mixed with PHP, its easyer for the coder and the designer when it comes to changing either parts ( design or back-end )