First of all, great forum you have here and hopefully someone will be able to answer my question.

I know HTML and some PHP but I'm learning more PHP everyday.
What I'd like to ask is if I want to start a new site and would like all the pages
to have the same design/layout how can I accomplish this ?

I already read about using the include function and to create a separate header and footer and have one file as the template.But this sounds useless because if I wanted to add something new to the body of all the pages then I would have to edit all the pages I made.Could someone tell me how to do it right?

Thanks in advance

I think what you want could be done using Dreamweaver. It lets you create one page that has the layout you want all of your pages to have, then you just apply it to your other pages.

If you make any changes to the template, it will affect all of the pages on your site that are linked to it

Although you would need to get hold of a copy of Dreamweaver aswell as learn how to use it in that case!

Thanks for reply but I was thinking of a solution that doesn't deal with dreamweaver or any other editor.

just use your index.php and just open it in notepad, and put in different content, and save it as whatever.php and link them togeather, this way it all used the same design, just content changes

thanx man, but I have already found this CMS called joomla and i think it's the best solution

Yeh using a CMS like Joomla can certainly help. If you decide you want to do it by hand afterall, you'll simply need do as already stated.

Create pages like header.php and footer.php, then use the PHP include function to make the server construct these when the page is requested. To achieve the same style throughout, the stylesheet could be linked to from header.php.

In each page, simply add:

PHP Code:

<?php include("header.php");?>

at the top, and do the same with the other PHP files you want inserted.

Dan