Updating Sidebar and Footer Across All Pages

[BGD]

Hi again all,

 

I wonder if someone might point me in the right direction?

 

On my site I need to add different images to the side bar and the footer over a period of days (rather than waiting for all to be in and doing at once).

 

I have five or six pages on the site and they all need to have the same template format of header, sidebar, footer all looking the same.

 

I use Dreamweaver CS4.

 

Do I need to update each page individually with each image as I get it and then reupload the whole site each time?? Or if I remove them do the same?

 

Thanks in advance for any steer you can give me.

 

B

[krillz]

well you could create a simple php class that works as you site layout base. Devide that into function for showing header, body, side bar, footer.

 

then simply calling the class functions on each page, which would be a good way of having all code at one place instead of 6. And if you need changes to the layout on any page it's just a matter of inheriting the main class and applying the changes in a child class.

[BGD]

well you could create a simple php class that works as you site layout base. Devide that into function for showing header, body, side bar, footer.

 

then simply calling the class functions on each page, which would be a good way of having all code at one place instead of 6. And if you need changes to the layout on any page it's just a matter of inheriting the main class and applying the changes in a child class.

 

Thanks Krillz but that is way above my experience level at the moment. Hopefully by next year when I repeat this I should be on track but this year with the hourglass almost empty I don't believe I can get up to speed on that.

 

I had hoped Library items or something similar might help but my readings eemed to suggest this wasn't suitable for images.

 

Edit: Google Ad Manager looks like it might do the job (although browsers with ad sensitive tools like Firefox might hide them) but once again the sun is low in the sky for me on this.

 

No quick dirty fixes at all?

Edited February 28, 2010 by BGD

[Andrea]

PHP includes are actually rather simple and even better than those Dreamweaver Library items. You don't need to learn or know any PHP in order to use them, and I never build websites without them any more.

 

Here is an excellent tutorial: http://www.killerphp.com/articles/php-includes/

[PicnicTutorials]

On my site I need to add different images to the side bar and the footer over a period of days (rather than waiting for all to be in and doing at once).

 

Is this a one time period of a few days? If so, yes, wait and upload them separately.

[BGD]

PHP includes are actually rather simple and even better than those Dreamweaver Library items. You don't need to learn or know any PHP in order to use them, and I never build websites without them any more.

 

Here is an excellent tutorial: http://www.killerphp.com/articles/php-includes/

 

Erm, thanks as ever Andrea. From what I ascertained from those clips (thanks Stefan too) I can create a sidebar page with all my images as a separate file and then just put the php include text into the main pages and it will theoretically pick it up.

 

So if I have a range of pages already created 1.htm, 2.htm etc do I just rename them 1.php?

 

And if it's not asking too much how do you deal with making sure of the positioning by your correct code placement and naming so that the images land in the correct spot?

[BGD]

On my site I need to add different images to the side bar and the footer over a period of days (rather than waiting for all to be in and doing at once).

 

Is this a one time period of a few days? If so' date=' yes, wait and upload them separately. [/quote']

 

Sadly I can't Eric.

[Andrea]

So if I have a range of pages already created 1.htm, 2.htm etc do I just rename them 1.php?

That is one way to do it. Or you can use the .htaccess to read html pages as php pages, then you don't have to rename anything.

And if it's not asking too much how do you deal with making sure of the positioning by your correct code placement and naming so that the images land in the correct spot?

You determine that with your CSS the exact same way as you would if the code was directly in your pages.