PHP Forum

**meloncrack** · 10-05-2008, 11:27 PM

I still can't figure out how to make .php links so I can make my pages dynamic. Can anyone teach me?

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**chrishirst** · 10-06-2008, 03:07 AM

< a href="/pagename.php" title="Some title text">Anchor text</a>

**meloncrack** · 10-06-2008, 05:59 PM

Would I make a separate .php file for only the links?
Like menu.php

BUT how would I link it to the page, the main page, like the index and what not? Thanks Chr

**vangogh** · 10-06-2008, 06:20 PM

If I'm understanding right you're asking about how to include one php file in another.

<body>
<?php include menu.php ?>
</body>

That will include the content of menu php (which would be a separate file) exactly where the 'include' code is located.

Does that help?

**meloncrack** · 10-06-2008, 06:31 PM

Well I use dreamweaver and I have this website. www.pokerhungry.com

As you notice on the left side of my page this is strictly all .html links.

Each page has a table with all the .html links on the left. If I add another link to the page, i have to add links to the other pages to make it seem like the links are there.

I've seen someone was able to manipulate and change just one file called, menu.php, and he only needed to make the pages after that which made it super easy. Is this a hard task to accomplish? Thanks.

**colbyt** · 10-06-2008, 07:13 PM

Chris and Vangogh have answer this question above. If you combine their two responses you will know how to do it using html.

Now whether you can make that work in a Dreamweaver page of not is a question I don't know the answer to.

**Lee-Bartlett** · 10-06-2008, 07:36 PM

what i think he would of done there, im not sure, he would of assigned a varible to each page and just put, for exmaple $home = ['home.php'] then attached that varible. im not sure if that code works, but possibly he done somthing like that.

**ForumFiller** · 10-06-2008, 09:29 PM

Where your menu is have a file that contains the links and includes them using the below tags.

<?php include menu.php ?>

the file that contains the include must be saved as .php on your web browser so the tags will work.

The file with your links in is simply one file that contains all your HTML links.

eg menu.php would contain

<a href="index.php">Home</a>
<a href="poker.php">Poker</a>
<a href="lol.php">Jokes</a>

When the links are stored in a file that is included you need only edit that file to change the included links on each page.

Hope that helps.

- Ben