includes

[youngros]

Can you use too many, and are there any implications in including an include within an include. I know they work as I have tested it.

 

The reason for asking is I have a couple of "news" boxes on my site, which will give a snippet of news and then have a link to the full story. Sometimes I may only have one box, or may have three and I don't want to have to update every page so wanted to have the whole left column which includes navigation into one php file.

 

Thoughts, comments, advice please.

Edited February 3, 2009 by youngros

[Wickham]

I agree that you can put includes inside includes; it just makes the page a bit more complicated and you have to keep a check on what's happening when they all display.

[sjhwebdesign]

as long as you don't include a page more than once.

 

eg

 

index.php includes config.php

index.php includes header.php

header.php includes config.php

 

you will get error about "headers already sent"

[jlhaslip]

include_once() will only include the file if it has not been included already.

[youngros]

Thanks, got it all working now. Just the one file to edit and then 25 odd pages do it automatically.