How to make function that we can call from another web page?

joseph · October 16, 2007

How do we call a certain function from another webpage (function.html) to show in this particular page (index.html)?

For example if I have this in my function.html

<a href="http://sitename.com">sitename</a>

and I would like to call that function to show in the index.html without using iframes.

Thanks.

fenway · October 16, 2007

That's not a function.

jason_kraft · October 16, 2007

You mean you just want to include function.html in index.html?

i'm assuming you have already tried

<?php include("filename.html"); ?>

Are you running php, what server are you on?

joseph · October 16, 2007

I'm testing my site locally on a wamp server.

I have a links.php having:

<?php
function topnav() {
echo'
<a href="...."></a>
}
';
?>

It does not seem to work if I call it in index.php:

<?php topnav(); ?>

I want to call the topnav() in index.php so that I don't to edit the links everytime I add a new webpage.

@jason_kraft: I also tried <?php include("filename.php"); ?> however it gives me an error

Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration...

Does javascript has something like this? I might need it in javascript codes because my website is currently in .html extensions.

fenway · October 16, 2007

JavaScript and PHP have nothing to do with one another.

jason_kraft · October 16, 2007

i'm assuming you are a new programmer?

but yeah hey try including a .js file with all your functions and linking it in your .html file

so you will have a "functions.js" file with contents

function functionname() {
...
}

and your "index.html" file just link the .js file in the head section

<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
...
        <script type="text/javascript" src="functions.js"></script>
</head>

but i recognize that this is not a php issue.

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