What is PHP's equivalent of an ASP.NET MasterPage?
Question
I am new to PHP. How can I create a base (like an asp.net masterpage) and have all other pages inherit from the base page or designate that I want pages to inherit from a certain base page, so I don't have to recreate things like headers, navigation, footers, etc...
Is it just more or do ASP.NET Masterpages seem to slow things down and add unnecessary clutter?
5 answers
solution1
3 ACCPTED 2011-03-04 12:40:04
There is no such thing in php; however, there are 2 functions you can use to simulate that.
include() and require().
Like this
top.php
<html>
<head>
<title>google<title>
<!--css and script includes-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="top">
<ul id="menu">
<li><a>link</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Other.php
random text
The two constructs are identical in every way except how they handle failure. include() produces a Warning while require() results in a Fatal Error.
solution2
2 2011-03-04 12:46:30
Php doesn't have masterpages.
You can however create functionality for them.
Its not exactly a master template tho
Here is a simple example:
header.php
<!doctype><html><head></head><body>
index.php
<?php include 'header.php'; ?> // more html here // <?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
footer.php
</body></html>
solution3
1 2011-03-04 12:48:07
I'd suggest you to use a template engine which supports features like inheritance. Using plain PHP for templates is a PITA.
Twig looks pretty nice and supports template inheritance: http://www.twig-project.org/
solution4
0 2011-03-04 12:48:19
I don't know, what a masterpage should be - but normally your start with a single index.php, which includes all necessary libraries, files and also templates, which are used to format the output. To request a single page, normally you use a request-parameter on that index.php.
solution5
-1 2013-06-13 15:54:13
There is a VERY nice way using functions:
ob_start();
ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
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