several html pages with the same header and footer

[thosecars82]

hello folks

Could please anybody tell me what the best approach is to build a website which has 5 html pages all of them with the same header and footer and only with static content?

Two ideas came to my mind but i don't know which one is the best to make the code more professional in this case:

 

First approach: develop 5 html files

 

Second approach: develop one php file in which there is a header and a footer. And then make the content between the

header and footer dynamic with php in order to have the 5 html pages just in one php page.

 

I look forward to seeing your replies.

Thanks.

[vbnullchar]

divide the page to 3 then just include it

 

<?php
//index.php content

include('header.php');
include('content.php');
include('footer.php');

?>

[conker87]

You could also do it like:

<?php

include("header.php"); // of course, you could just add the code from header into this page

include($_GET['page'] . ".php"); // index.php?page=hello, etc

include("footer.php"); // ditto

?>

You'll have to make it slightly more secure, but this is the general idea.