PHP Include for HTML?

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I have a navigational bar, an image, and a heading that I'll be including in every page of my website, so I wanted to use php include to refer to this code in several pages. However, I think I may have the syntax wrong or something because it's not rendering anything when I load it. Here are some code snippets:

<!-- sample page --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> 
<html>  
<head>  
<?php include ('headings.php'); ?>
</head>
<body>
<?php include ('navbar.php'); ?>
<?php include ('image.php'); ?> 
</body>
</html>

navbar.php

    <?php 

    echo '<ul id="nav">
        <li>
            <a href="Home.html">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a>About Me</a>
            <ul>
                <li>
                    <a href="Career.html">Career</a>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a href="Coding.html">Coding</a>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a href="Personal.html">Personal</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="Travels.html">Travel</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="Contact.html">Contact</a>
        </li>
    </ul>';

    ?>

Thanks for helping!

include html php
8 Answers

I have a similar issue. It appears that PHP does not like php code inside included file. In your case solution is quite simple. Remove php code from navbar.php, simply leave plain HTML in it and it will work.

user_86935700

When the use case is that only include a html page as output, php native method readfile() should be called instead. This method simply reads a file and writes it to the output buffer.

Usage:

readfile(__DIR__ . '/../public/react.html');
exit();
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