Cascading changes throughout the website - without frames

pritmadlani · #1 Apr 17th, 2008, 12:42

Hi,

I am currently building a website and am wondering if there is a way that I can change a section on a website once - which then will automatically change on other the other pages.

The website that I am working on is:

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~p04283218/mainframe8/

As it can be seen - on the left-hand side of the page - there is the navigation section. If I was to add a new link called 'Gallery' (for example), is there an easier way to add it to all the pages - rather than going through them individually?

Your help is much appreciated.

dab42pat · #2 Apr 17th, 2008, 13:08

There is a way to do it but it can be dangerous, and that is use the find and replace tool.

for example find the piece of code you want replaced in your case

HTML: Select all

<td><a href="index.html" target="_parent"><strong>Home</strong></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><a href="courses.html" target="_parent"><strong>Courses</strong></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><a href="latestinfo.html" target="_parent"><strong>Latest Information</strong></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="link.html">Useful Links</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="aboutdmu.html">About DMU</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="aboutcse.html">About CSE</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="contactus.html">Contact Us</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="faqs.html">FAQ's</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="rss.html">RSS Feeds</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong><a href="wherearewe.html">Where are we?</a></strong></td>
  </tr>
</table>

then in the replace section add all the above code plus your new link and submit the request.(ensure it is set to "entire current local site")

I would strongly advise backing up your files before doing this as it is not reversible

MikeHopley · #3 Apr 17th, 2008, 15:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by pritmadlani

As it can be seen - on the left-hand side of the page - there is the navigation section. If I was to add a new link called 'Gallery' (for example), is there an easier way to add it to all the pages - rather than going through them individually?

You're going to love this.

It feels daunting at first, but once you start you'll be hooked:

PHP includes.

Don't be scared off because PHP is a scripting language. You don't need to touch the gritty programming side of it unless you want to.

Okay, so you have to set up a local webserver if you want to develop locally (which most people do). But that's not too hard either: WAMP server.

pritmadlani · #4 Apr 17th, 2008, 15:19

Thanks for that Mike - I will definitely have a look at that later on today.

Appreciate it.

nuideas · #5 Apr 18th, 2008, 09:09

i would deffinately go the PHP includes way, as it means your pages can be cleaner - like having headers footers and navigation sections all in their own includes - plus u dont have to be a good php'er to do them - I can do them for cripes's sake

bobby12 · #6 May 2nd, 2008, 11:11

i would deffinately go the PHP includes way,

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welshstew · #7 May 2nd, 2008, 11:32

you can also use asp includes as well
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_incfiles.asp

shalom_m · #8 May 2nd, 2008, 21:38

If it is just the navigation menu that you want common to all pages, a simple SSI will do.

1databyte · #9 May 3rd, 2008, 09:35

Hi,

just for future reference ASP.Net 2 (Visaul Studio 2005) has a "Master Page" option designed for this exact purpose

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