Can anyone help on a cache question?

[santiagodelarosa]

Absolute beginner to php!!

I have just converted a simple site from htm pages to php because as it grew larger the include function that php offers was the only solution to stop me going mad  ;)

I have mainly used php to include various parts of the navigation system but have noticed that each time a page is viewed the whole page loads up including the header and footer. I have saved the menu header and footer in a "template" folder.

Is there some way to cache the header/menu/footer php files so that only the text in the middle changes??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks ;D

[taith]

instead of
[code]
include();
require();
[/code]

try using
[code]
include_once();
require_once();
[/code]

that or, in your included files, you have them set to include the header/footer also...

[bqallover]

Well, even though you're using the include function the page still arrives as a single file, and as far as I know there's no way around that!  The graphics are porbably being cached though.

If you want to keep the header/nav system while loading other parts of the site, I'd say the way to go is with either frames/iframes or AJAX, which are different though complementary technologies to PHP.

[santiagodelarosa]

No luck with include_once  :-[

Are there any other suggestions as iframes and ajax are not really an option

[taith]

with the include_once(); you have to switch ALL of the includes to that... basically... the include_once(); says... if it wasnt included before, include it, else, disregard