Header and Footer Snippets
Explore how to improve your PHP project structure by creating reusable header and footer snippets. This lesson guides you through moving common HTML code into separate files and including them across multiple scripts. By the end, you'll be able to streamline your PHP pages, reducing duplication and making your codebase cleaner and more maintainable.
Creating separate files for common HTML code
Along the way, you may have noticed some duplication in the code we copied and pasted in several places.
For starters, we have been duplicating most of the basic HTML structure (<!DOCTYPE html><html...) every time we create a new page.
What’s inside <body>...</body> will be different for every page, but the rest of ...