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Question

So I'm setting up a portfolio and print selling website, and a lot of the text on the individual product pages is going to be generic. To avoid typing and make updates easier I'm thinking about heavily using php includes. I'm wondering if it's safe to split a paragraph (or other) tag into a PHP include, like this:

<p>This image, [title], photographed at the Biltmore Gardens in late Summer 2015, <?php include '../include/generictext.php';?>

And then generictext.php would have the closing paragraph tag:

is printed on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310. This excellent fine art paper offers blah blah blah</p>
The following sizes are available:<br>
...

Is that safe?

Answer 1

Yes, that's perfectly safe. The only thing the PHP interpreter looks for in this context is <? ; everything else gets passed through unchanged, so it doesn't matter that the include() happens in the middle of a paragraph.

It's even safe (albeit confusing) to put an opening PHP tag in the middle of an HTML tag, eg

<div class="<?php include "blah" ?>">

Answer 2

I had a similar set up before moving my site to a database, the URL would point to a php page containing only variables, then that page would include another containing the template for output, eg.

thisprint.php

<?php
$title = 'nice photo';
$location = 'some place';
$date = 'summer 2015';

include 'template.php';
?>

template.php

<p>This image, <?= $title ?>, photographed at <?= $location ?> in <?= $date ?>, is printed on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310. This excellent fine art paper offers blah blah blah</p>
The following sizes are available:<br>
...

This works great for smaller sites, but as I found out becomes difficult to maintain/expand as the site gets bigger and bigger and this is where a database comes into its own.