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Hoss
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 22:46
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I have a few PHP questions that I hope can be answered in a way that I can understand.

1) I am designing my site as of now, and I would like to know how I can design the site in HTML, but in the main content area, have the content from a .txt file shown in the content table.

2) I have tried the tutorials on davidtattersal.me.uk for Clever Content but cannot understand how to implement them into an HTML design I have made.

Thanks in Advance

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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 00:34
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1) You would use this code:



Usage:

Go to the url

www.domain.com/whatever.php?page=main
To include main.txt

www.domain.com/whatever.php?page=stuff
To include stuff.txt

etc.

2) I'm flattered somebody's read my tutorial!

For anybody interested URL is
http://designingthe.net?articles/php/cms/

I'm assuming you already have the completed script:



To add your own HTML template simply place any HTML code around the line



So for example your modified code might look like this:



Good luck

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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 00:41 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 00:46
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OK, but what if my whole website right now uses tables?

Can you give me an example how I would use your script to put text in the section where the main content is? My source for the page is:




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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 00:49
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I'm afraid I haven't looked at your code in full, but here's an example of a normal page that uses tables:



To use that in my script modification I detailed above, you would copy all HTML before "CONTENT GOES HERE" into header.htm and all content thta goes after that into footer.htm.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 01:25 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 01:31
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Well, David, when you have time can you go through my code and put it in the form so I can use it, because the way I did it was not even close to working.

Here is the code I tried.

index.php:



header.html:



footer.html:



test.html:


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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 13:17
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David i've read your tutorials


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Well, I'd like to use my design, but since this is confusing, I am going to use PHP nuke, and maybe use this if more help is posted.

Regards

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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 18:27 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 18:30
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Glad you decided to wait all of one hour to get help

Okay, firstly can you post up what error you get (if there is one) - I pasted your header and footer HTML into my editor and it just showed a blank page :/

Secondly I'll try this afternoon to get your code working and a version of it running on my server.

Things to do:

- Try to replace your complex HTML with a simple text design - if that does work then it's a problem with your HTML (you may wat to rewrite it). And idea might just be to completely remove theh eader nad footer and just check that everything is included properly.
- Make sure that in the same folder as your index.php there is a folder called pages. Within that folder place test.html.
- Call index.php without any paraeters and the pages/test.html file should be included.
- Then create a folder within pages called test/. Inside that again place another version of test.html with any content you want in, and call index.php?test/ - you should see the content from pages/test/test.html included.

Once everything is set up it's not that confusing at all. Just craete a new folder for every section of your site, it provides not only a logical look at things but and easy way to maintain the site and memorable URLs.
PHPNuke is IMO incredibly useless for normal web sites- it doesn't focus on content, more on portals. You'd be hard pressed to work with PHPNuke and get some decent content management in.

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Thanks David T

If you get it working, please post, if not, I am working on a very simple design.

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