Building Money Sites the Fast and Furious Way

[Kurt]

"Includes", PHP and HTML

This simple method will allow us to update a single file and have the updates take place across all the pages on your site. For example, you can add a "footer" to every page on your site and update this single file to update the footer on all pages on your site.

There are html and php versions of both templates. Don't be afraid, they are the same thing. You can edit them with either/or a text editor and a WYSIWYG EDITOR. I suggest you use both, as both have strong advantages.

You can actually rename Page.php to Page.html and work on it, then change it back to .php if your editor won't work with .php files. They are the exact same things, only with different file extensions.

The difference is once you upload them to your website, the .php files get more "power", just because they are .php. The .php tells your host that it may have to go to work when someone visits the page. The .php files will take slightly longer to load, but not by much with what we're using them for. PHP pages also give you many more options in the future.

Your web host is set up to run php scripts. Your home computer very likely isn't. So even very simple php things propably won't work on your PC. So don't be surprise if the pages look totally different when viewed on your PC compared to on your host.

We will use .php pages so we can use "php includes". This function allows us to create a file, like with a bunch of navigation links, and have php insert it into as many pages as we want. But it only works after we upload our pages to our host. On our own computer we get nothing.

Here's how we'll use it. There's a file called footer.php. I've added some links to various legal pages like TOS, etc. By adding a "php include", these links will be included on every page we make and if we ever want to change the footer info we just change the footer.php file and it will update across all the pages that contain the footer include, whether it's one page or one million pages.

Here's the html code in the footer.php file:

Code:

<p class="w3-small"><center>
<a href="TOS.php" target="_new">TOS</a>  |  <a href="Contact.php" target="_new">Contact</a>  |  <a href="AffiliateDisclosure.php" target="_new">Affiliate Disclosure</a>  |  <a href="DMCA.php" target="_new">DMCA Copyright Notice</a>  |  <a href="Spam.php" target="_new">Anti Spam Policy</a>   |  <a href="Privacy.php" target="_new">Privacy Policy</a>  |  <a href="Earnings.php" target="_new">Earnings Disclaimer</a>
</center>

Now all you have to do is tell a page to "include" this footer.php file and you can update footer.php anytime you need to update all the pages that use the include.


Both php templates have the footer include tag:

Code:

<?php include 'footer.php';?>

The 2 column .php template also has this include:

Code:

<?php include 'Right-Column-Include.php';?>

You can put whatever you want in these files, just be careful with formatting.

You can remove these includes or add additional files of your own. You don't want to use too many though, as they will slow down your server. But one or two strategically used are a good trade-off IMO.