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**meloncrack** · 09-02-2008, 09:43 PM

On the left hand side of this website http://www.vietnamwebsite.net/duhoc/
There are about 11 hyperlinks. The question is this: This looks like a HUGE site and sometimes in the future lets say this person wanted to add another hyperlink, he would have to change the hyperlinks for EVERY PAGE for example, he would have to change TRANG CHU, DANH BA CHINH, TOP 1000 WEB, etc., all these links and pages.

How can I make it to there I can add another hyperlink without going to EVERY SINGLE PAGE to add that hyperlink. Do you kind of get what I mean?

**thehuskybear** · 11:05 PM

What you can do is use php (or another server side language such as asp) to include your link files.

So, your pages would look something like this:

PHP Code:


			
<html>
<head>
    <title>My Page</title>
    <!-- Other Head tags and css stuff ->
</head>
<body>
<div id="sideBar">
   <?php include('links.php'); ?>
</div>
<div id="content">
    <!-- Your page content right here -->
</div>
</body>
</html>

And your links.php page might look like this:

HTML Code:

<ul>
    <li><a href="link1.html">Some link</a></li>
    <li><a href="link1.html">Some link</a></li>
    <li><a href="link1.html">Some link</a></li>
</ul>

You just have to make sure your host will support php and dont forget to give your pages the .php extension. That way you only have to edit links.php... not each page.

Hope that helps

**meloncrack** · 09-03-2008, 12:15 AM

Thanks bro, but what is <div id="sideBar">
Do I need that? Can you tell me what that does? Thanks bro.

**thehuskybear** · 01:44 AM

You dont need that... a div is just a container to help structure your page. If for example, you wanted to style your links, but only the links in that links.php page, you could add this to your head sections (or in a separate css page-minus the style tag):

HTML Code:

<style>
<!--
div.sideBar a{
    color: #ff0000;
}
//-->
</style>

That would essentially make all of the links ( a ) in your side bar ( div.sideBar ) red ( color: #ff0000 )

If you aren't familiar with css, I recommend you read this

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