Building an Easier Site with PHP Modules

Having hundreds of pages to manage can be a lot of
work when it comes to revisions, such as changing the site menu or a
list of links.

I have found an easier way to keep my editing time to a minimum with using what I call PHP Modules.

For
example, we'll build a menu module, we'll cut all of our menu images
& links from our pages leaving behind only the empty tables &
then create a new page menu.php without any headers and paste our menu
code.

Then in the empty tables we'll add the code:

< ?php

include_once "menu.php";

? >

Now
the next time I need to change the menu I'll only need to edit menu.php
& the other 300 pages will automatically be updated, slick right?

Note:
To use this PHP code you'll need to change all of your pages from .HTML
to .PHP or use a java script to parse the PHP code. You wont need to
change any of your html code as web browsers will render your pages the
same way as .html

I recommend changing your pages to PHP because
once you start working with PHP you will find a lot free scripts that
you can use to make your site more exciting & interactive than with
html alone.

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