From .html to .php

Let's change the '.html' file to the '.php' file.

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Converting index.html into index.php

Now that we have _header.php and _footer.php, it will be very easy to change the layout of the entire website. When we make a change to any of these files, it will be picked up on every page because every page includes these two files. For instance, adding a navigation bar to the page will be very easy. We will do that in the next lesson, but first, we need to make sure that every page includes these two snippets. If you have done all that work in Bootstrapping, you may have noticed that currently, only the index page doesn’t use _header.php and _footer.php. That’s because this page is a .html file and not a .php file. The solution is to rename index.html to index.php and include those snippets in the right places:

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