Hey,

I apologize in advance if i am writing this in the wrong section.

I'm putting a webpage together and i'm wanting to have a 'Latest Posts' section which displays around five of the most recent updates to the site. I have looked into setting this up as an RSS feed but i'm not familiar enough with PHP to implement it properly.

So I'm happy to write into the 'Latest Posts' section the title and date of the latest update. But I'm wondering if there is a way i can just type it into the index page (or any other page) and for that to automatically update on every other page where the 'Latest Posts' section is displayed?

Thanks for any replies.

Use server side includes

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/article.../php-includes/

That's great thanks for the link

I'm really new to PHP and was wondering if you wouldn't mind explaining a bit more to implement this and how it will work exactly.

So with the code from the page, if i set this up will i end up with one page which isn't part of my webpage (ie 'latestposts.php') which when i update will automatically make those changes on every other page on my site which is calling the action?

Or, can i have the initial code on my index.php page and when updating that, will make the updated changes automatically on the other pages?


Also, when inserting this code that's shown at the bottom of the link, i see it's calling 'header.php, content.php' etc. Do i need this if all i want to do is update the latest posts section? Actually i would like to use this code to update a 'Links' section as well. So can i implement both the Latest Posts and Links in the one code and if so, how do i change it up so it does so?

<? include( $domain . "/include/header.php");?>
<? breadcrumbs();?>
<? include("content.php");?>
<? include($domain . "/include/footer.php");?


Appreciate any help, thanks

f i set this up will i end up with one page which isn't part of my webpage (ie 'latestposts.php') which when i update will automatically make those changes on every other page on my site which is calling the action?

An included page becomes part of the page it is included into.
Just simply have a script that gets the latest posts and prints it to the page it is included, in at the position that it is included.

Also, when inserting this code that's shown at the bottom of the link, i see it's calling 'header.php, content.php' etc. Do i need this if all i want to do is update the latest posts section? Actually i would like to use this code to update a 'Links' section as well. So can i implement both the Latest Posts and Links in the one code and if so, how do i change it up so it does so?

Not if you don't want to, it's just simpler to have the parts of pages that are all the same in a single file and include them, so if you decide to change a logo, it's only one edit, and every page changes at once.

Thanks again for the reply.

So.. in other words, the same PHP code will be placed on every page i have 'Latest posts' showing. And if i update the latest posts on ANY of the pages, it will automatically change on the rest? Or have i got that wrong and i need a main PHP page which i alter in order for the automatic changes to be made throughout all pages?

With the code, is it almost like CSS but for text?
So on every page i will need to refer to only the places which i want to change, i.e if i want to change the header image i can do that in CSS, so i don't need to refer to it within the PHP code I'm putting together for 'Latest Posts' ?

If i was then to change the following code:

<? include( $domain . "/include/header.php");?>
<? breadcrumbs();?>
<? include("content.php");?>
<? include($domain . "/include/footer.php");?


How do i change this so it is reading the 'latest posts' which isn't a page of it's own, it's just a part of the page. I'm not sure how to call it when it's not something like latestposts.php.

Thanks again for your help.