PHP and includes

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I am creating my first website from scratch and had seen something where you can reduce code by using PHP includes for sections of the site that are to be repeated. So far, I have a head.php (which I added due to my stylesheet.css being linked there and needing access to it on every page), header.php, footer.php, index.php, and other pages with the php extension (about, contact, that bunch).

Everything is appearing where I'd like it to except for one issue: when setting the body background color, everything (all includes: header.php, footer.php) seems to be in the body. I tested this by setting a border around the body, and it confirmed what I thought.

Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong? I am using flexbox in my header, footer, and other bits within the index file, but I don't think that should be affecting anything.

<!DOCTYPE html>


<?php include 'head.php'; ?>
  <?php include 'header.php'; ?>


  <body id="main-block">
    <!-- Button links to Portfolio and Other stuff -->
    <div class="flex-container">
      <a class="main-button" href="#">Web Work</a>
      <a class="main-button" href="#">Other Work</a>
    </div>

  </body>

<?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
</html>

header and footer should be in body <body><header></header><section></section><article></article><footer></footer></body> — Kazz
– Kazz, Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 4:41

hello world · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-03 04:35:35Z

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your body tag is suppose to wrap around your header and footer elements. see below markup

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  <?php include (header);?>
  <?php include (footer);?>
  </body>
</html>

if u wanna change the background color of your elements just add css

element { background-color:pink }

answered Jun 3, 2017 at 4:35

hello world

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El Coo Cooi Over a year ago

Great, I will do that. So when using php includes, the includes actually become part of the body? I mean, any css targeted at the body will affect those include(d) php elements, correct?

hello world Over a year ago

in this case yes. Whenever you include something it'll be part of the wrapper (again in this case the <body> tag). Try playing around with the dev tools in chrome. right click and inspect element and see how things are being rendered in the view.

sensorario · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-03 04:52:25Z

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I admit that I do not really understand your issue. But I'll give you a little snippet to start coding php:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Welcome</title>
        <style>
            <?php include 'stile.php'; ?>
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <?php include 'header.php'; ?>
        <?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
    </body>
</html>

answered Jun 3, 2017 at 4:52

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