Page titles when using php

If you really wanted then you could do this:

<?php
$file = file_get_contents("includes/filename.html");

echo $file;
?>

PS: Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses (" and ") :P

Originally Posted by Michael Boutros PS: Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses (" and ") :P

Quick side note... " and " uses more overhead because it processes variables inside the double quotes while single quotes does not. I only use double quotes when necessary or for convenience when overhead does not matter (yeah right, overhead always matters!). That's the main difference

What do you mean by overhead?

Originally Posted by Julian What do you mean by overhead?

Ditto.

Overhead refers to the amount of instructions it takes to process a certain block of php code.

In other words, it takes a server longer to process this:

echo "hello";

than it does this:

echo 'hello';

Granted on something that small it makes no difference. However if you were to use double quotes exclusively instead of single quotes on something like forum software, it all ads up and could make several seconds difference in loading time. Multiply that by thousands of users at a time and you've got a problem that could have easily been avoided by using propper PHP.

wow never knew about html includes, thanks alot, now i wont have to use .php all the time

Thanks a bunch Josh

Just to add one more comment about Server Side Includes.

If you tried the code I posted earlier and it did not include your .html file as expected, it is probably due to your server's configuration.
So if the above code doesn't include your .html files properly, then you'll have to rename your .html files to .shtml.

You would then use the following:
The reason why the .shtml extension is often required is so that the server doesn't waste time and resources searching through every .html file for an include statement. By giving a .shtml extension, the server will only expect an include to possibly occur in that filetype.

Note: You can use either .shtml or .shtm.

The .html files are working fine, thanks for the heads-up!

Originally Posted by jjmac Quick side note... " and " uses more overhead because it processes variables inside the double quotes while single quotes does not. I only use double quotes when necessary or for convenience when overhead does not matter (yeah right, overhead always matters!). That's the main difference

Wow...I never knew that. I would always go or whatever. Thanks for the tip