Building a new site with PHP

[espmartin]

Hello All,

The more I use PHP, the more I realize I really want to use it more. You see,
before I started using PHP, I would hard-code all elements such as navigation
onto every page I have on a site. I'd make sure that the code was exactly
the same, so when I needed to make a change or addition, I would do a
search-and-replace on that site.

But now with PHP, I just have one navigation php file, and link to it from my
site's markup.

How many of you designers use PHP in this fashion?

[SkinnerW]

There were other options to achieve similar tasks, DHTML for example. They work almost the same way as "php include" - you create dynamic template with all common elements and than just attach content pages to that template...

PHP gives you much more flexibility than just simple "include" and I actually slow but sure converting all my html sites to php.

[espmartin]

...PHP gives you much more flexibility than just simple "include"...

I agree with you SkinnerW. I actually use PHP to serve one of my sites as
XHTML 1.1 (with the correct content type as well):

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />

and other "lesser" browsers get XHTML 1.0 Strict, with it's content type as:

content="text/html;

Just one semi-advanced PHP thang I do...