Fixed Sidebar for Navigation in Website

Question

I want to have a sidebar in my website with navigation in it. I will use script like phpBB etc. but I want sidebar to be displayed on every page.

So I am thinking about making a Sidebar in HTML and then using frame tag for displaying other pages/scripts.

But as Frames are getting obsolute, Is there any other method to display a sidebar in everypage without using frames and without adding html coding on every page?

Answer 1

Put your HTML in a PHP file (or HTML if you want) with no or other tags aside from what you want to display, then put the following on each page you want to display the menu on:

<?php include ('page-name.php'); ?>

One line of code is all you need. If you make a change to the 'page-name.php' file, it updates on every page.

Cheers

Answer 2

This question was asked here and on Webmasters ; I answered it over there.