From: Craig S. Freshwater, Webmaster / CEO http://www. newcybertech. com
http://newcybertech. com/Blog/2006/04/15/using-php-for-website-navigation-explained /

PHP can be very useful in your webiste design, I use PHP for my websites difficult functions such as forums, blogs, chat, user forms and shopping cart interface. But did you know you can use simple PHP for your website navigation systems?

The use of PHP for your website header, navigation to the left and bottom of the page information is a big advantage. Now I know what you think, PHP can be complicated and intimidating, many of you, but let me explain first.
Using simple PHP include commands is a method that any webmaster at any expertise level from novice to expert can implement with ease.
Most find

editing PHP a frightening endeavor, but never fear, I will show you how.

Many of us still with tables in the design of our Web pages instead of CCS, below is a veiw of the basic attitude I will discuss in this article:

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How to see

from the image above, all the content around the main content of each page will be shown in PHP, and this is what is going on in this article. The advantage of this technology will be when you update one of the surrounding PHP files, the results on each page of your site that you have created in this way come to expression. This sounds great right, but keep it is another advantage.

You can say the same thing can be done with robot commands include, but are on a hook, know that

The problem with the robot include command is that to see that content is not search engine robots. We all know that the King is content to achieve high rankings in search engines, so why hide the content you have? So what I am to teach you, and with the help of PHP for your website navigation is so important.

“to see all information and links in your navigation PHP and cataloged for the higher rankings of all search engine robots.”

to now how it all works:
Please read

below if you need this information if not to browse to the steps to generate PHP navigation on your site.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a very popular, server-side scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML coding. PHP can do anything that CGI can do, such as process form data and auto generate dynamic content, but PHP can do much more. It can be used on all major operating systems and supports most web servers. PHP is used by inserting PHP code into your Web page HTML code. If the page is called, the server automatically the code. What’s more, your visitors do not need any special plug-ins for running the code because they are displayed just like your HTML code. As PHP is a server-side scripting language, although your visitors will not need to install a new software, you need to set up PHP on your server.
After

is a very simple script that your server is PHP test is installed safely. It is a standard PHP function called phpinfo, which the browser to print information regarding the set up of your server instructed.

to use the script, simply copy the code following three lines and paste them into a simple text editor, such as notes.

Save the file phpinfo. php and upload it to your server, save where your HTML files.

run the script, just in your browser to the script address. It should look like this:

http://www. . Yourdomain com / phpinfo. php

If PHP is installed on your server, do a page with information about the PHP will be submitted installed on your server.

If PHP is not installed, you will be prompted to download the file. In this case, you have to contact your web host and ask them to install it, because it is free to download and install.

learn more about PHP and download it at

http://www. php. net /.

steps to generate PHP navigation on your site.
First, you must enable

, create a PHP file with HTML include concludes with the PHP function. This is easy to do by adding a line to your. htaccess file for your site and have driven apache PHP analyzed in HTML files. To do this login to your websites FTP account, go into the. htdocs file found. htaccess file, edit it to this one line code in the file: add

AddType application / x-httpd-php. php. html

so you can have analyzed PHP blocks in your HTML files so long as the PHP code in PHP tags. Example below:

PHP Code:

We will see how the above command to get a little later in this article.
Now for the steps:

Step 1
Create the following pages in your favorite HTML editor:
A. headers. html
B. left. html
C. below. html
D. right. html (optional)
Or you can name files whatever you want, but I will as referenced above for this item. Once you have built on these pages to your liking, we begin with the implementation of PHP. First construction of a new index. HTML page, you can test it names or something to it as you want to get it. Put it with tables look to the page as follows:

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Step 2 Now here’s the trick, rename each HTML page you just built, “header. Html, left. Html, below. Html, and right. Html (optional)” on the. php file extension. You can do this by opening each. html file in a text editor such as Notepad and save as. php in the same directory as the. html file on your server. You now have a copy of each file in HTML and PHP format.

Step 3 We are now ready to use the new PHP files, each table in your information, we set the command functions.
See example below:

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Step 4 Open your new index page in your favorite browser and you will see all the HTML pages that you come together as a site built with PHP.

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Step 5 Edit the new PHP page navigation is simple, all you need to do, the HTML file you edit is built into your favorite HTML editor. When finished, simply copy the HTML pages and paste it into the appropriate PHP file. Just open the PHP file with a text editor and replace the HTML with her in with the edited version of HTML and save it as. php again. Now your PHP file is updated to match your edited HTML file.

Conclusion:
Now, whenever your website header and navigation pages the results will update on every page of your site that you have established in this way come to expression. And as an added bonus to see all the information and links in your navigation PHP and indexed by all the higher for search engine robots placements.

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