I'm new to php. After some experimentation, I have found that I can have a php include file inside of another php include file, and it seems to work.

1st level: Page on site
2nd level: Include file
3rd level: Include file (shows up on Page on site)

This feature did not seem to work for me when using ss includes in web pages with .html extensions.

I was wondering if having includes inside of includes (in .php files) is an OK, are there any problems I might run into with this type of arrangement? It's helpful for me because I get to separate pieces of code which makes it easier to modify down the road. Thank you for any suggestions.

In php it is quite normal to include files with includes.

Thanks for the heads up. Php seems so much more powerful than standard html - can't see why more sites don't use it.

You know, html is hyper text markup language while php is fully functional programming language. Generally speaking, html page is the result of php script's work, that's why you don't see php in html code. Including files with includes is the most simple thing that php can do.

Oh I know, php is powerful. I've done some crazy stuff with it (registration sites, etc), although I'm still missing some of the basics (as you can tell)

And just as an extra tip, in case you didn't know already. For both the include() and require() functions there are equivalent functions that will only include pages once, include_once() and require_once(). So if you get caught up in big nested includes where two includes in turn includes the same page it will still only be included once. This would prevent error messages saying you're trying to define functions which already exists for example.

So this is good to use when including pages with functions in it, or classes.