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PHP

Posted by John Curry
John Curry
7,017 Points

2 Headers instead of 1 on "Build a simple PHP application"

I have been following along with the "Build a simple PHP application" I'm in the creating the Menu & Footer, the video where I got stuck is "Including the Header".

When I follow along with the video, I end up with two headers instead of one. What could I be doing wrong?

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

What could I be doing wrong? Hard to say without seeing your code.

Did you remember to remove the static html code for the header, when you added in the php code for the header?

Marcus Gossmeyer
Marcus Gossmeyer
1,662 Points
Marcus Gossmeyer
Marcus Gossmeyer
1,662 Points

As James mentioned. It is possible you have kept the original header content in the index.php file. As long as you have copied the content from your header and added it to a new header.php file. you can now replace the original content with:

<?php include('inc/header.php'); ?>

This tag grabs the file header.php and prints it's content in place of the php tag. Now you can add this include tag anywhere you want the header to appear.