help with banner updating

ziplock122949 · #1 Sep 3rd, 2007, 21:47

I have a website that has a lot of sub pages. I have some banners (images hosted and linked to external places) on it right now but they are coded into each of my pages. I want to find a way to put some code into each page so that looks at a file on my domain which gives it the location of the external image link and the hyperlink. In the future I do not want to have to go to every single page and update the banners and links.

alexgeek · #2 Sep 3rd, 2007, 21:48

PHP includes?
if you don't know what that is,
take a look on w3schools.com

ziplock122949 · #3 Sep 4th, 2007, 00:39

ok. I seem to be having a little trouble with dreamweaver. I first created a main page (home.php) then created a page with a banner (titlebanner.php). Dreamweaver is not letting me adjust the size of the titlebanner.php page to be the exact same size as the image or any other size for that matter, the options are all grayed out (i figure thats how i am suppose to do it). I then say screw it and try to add the titlebanner.php into the home.php using the code

<body>
<?php include(titlebanner.php); ?>
</body>
</html>

all it gives me is a little box with php in it.

alexgeek · #4 Sep 4th, 2007, 00:55

okay first of all
<?php include(titlebanner.php); ?>
i usually have it with apostrophes
<?php include('titlebanner.php'); ?>

and secondly, do you have a host? your not going to be able to see the result in dreamweaver. you need someone to host your website so that the .php extension can be handled

ziplock122949 · #5 Sep 4th, 2007, 01:24

oops had deleted the line and forgot to put those back. yeah the problem was i needed to upload it to the host. thanks

alexgeek · #6 Sep 4th, 2007, 01:29

y'welcome,
glad you got it working

sannbe · #7 Sep 4th, 2007, 01:44

Quote:

your not going to be able to see the result in dreamweaver. you need someone to host your website so that the .php extension can be handled

Actually you can view locally. It is as simple as setting up a server on your local computer. I personally use Xampp. It is phpadmin, mysql and an Apache server. integrated and working flawlessly together. I use it to locally test my site. Saves having to upload/download and fix.

alexgeek · #8 Sep 4th, 2007, 01:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by sannbe

Actually you can view locally. It is as simple as setting up a server on your local computer. I personally use Xampp. It is phpadmin, mysql and an Apache server. integrated and working flawlessly together. I use it to locally test my site. Saves having to upload/download and fix.

yeah and in dreamweaver cs3,
you can see included file

ziplock122949 · #9 Sep 4th, 2007, 07:14

is there a way to use the include function in the header? All i have seen is in the body of a page. Just thought of it as im heading to sleep.

alexgeek · #10 Sep 4th, 2007, 10:38

i don't really know what you mean
could explain?
thanks

ziplock122949 · #11 Sep 4th, 2007, 15:30

I have only seen
<body>
<?php include('name.php'); ?>
</body>

i would like to add the include to the head

<head>
<?php include('name.php'); ?>
</head>

does this work or is there another way i can do this?

karinne · #12 Sep 4th, 2007, 15:31

You can do that.

alexgeek · #13 Sep 4th, 2007, 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by ziplock122949

I have only seen
<body>
<?php include('name.php'); ?>
</body>

i would like to add the include to the head

<head>
<?php include('name.php'); ?>
</head>

does this work or is there another way i can do this?

Yeah to do stuff like meta tags and stylsheets,
putting content in there such as <p> and <div> would mess up your code

ziplock122949 · #14 Sep 5th, 2007, 02:40

the code i am trying to use on some pages and not others is from the following site. Its possible for me to leave the head code in the template page I am creating but all the unnecessary code will just increase my bandwidth usage when it is not needed.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...pmenuindex.htm

alexgeek · #15 Sep 5th, 2007, 07:48

in the code your could put something like this:

PHP: Select all


<?php 
$page = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
if ($page == "nameofapageyoudontwantiton.php" || $page == "anotherpageyoudont.php") {
} else {
echo "jabascript here";
}

you can add as many pages to that ass you like. || means or. likewise && is and.
and there's an opposite way of this

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