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PHP

Posted by Ivan Tomicic
Ivan Tomicic
3,873 Points

Stylesheets inside include files?

Hello, is there a way to put all stylesheets and scripts inside one include file and call them on each page?

Seems like regular way of copying style and script links into include file does not work?

2 Answers

Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points
Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points

I think this might help you:

index.php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Welcome to my website</title>
        <?php include("include.php"); ?>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Welcome to my website</h1>
        <p>My website's content.</p>
    </body>
</html>

include.php

<link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
<script src="main.js"></script>

You can even do something like this inside include.php:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css">
<?php
    $my_stylesheet="main.css";
    echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$my_stylesheet.'">';
?>
<script src="main.js"></script>
Lorenzo Pieri
Lorenzo Pieri
19,772 Points
Lorenzo Pieri
Lorenzo Pieri
19,772 Points

The only question is: is it really worth it? You would be doubling the HTTP requests for a file that is already included by include\require command!

include('inc/header.php') and meanwhile the header.php has an include that goes like include('inc/resources.php')

Still a great way to stay clean, of course, but putting everything in the header include file is "faster" and still as clean as it can be.

My say! :)

Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points
Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points

Where the heck comes header.php into play? :D I can't see the relation to my post (?).

Lorenzo Pieri
Lorenzo Pieri
19,772 Points
Lorenzo Pieri
Lorenzo Pieri
19,772 Points

So you are not going to create an include('inc/header.php') once you are done with the basic markup? Mine was more of a future consideration and not only relevant to your post. I commented under your post because it was a consideration RELATED to a possible and futile doubled HTTP REQUEST that would probably happen since he\she will then include a file by the name of header.php, no matter your post.

Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points
Lucas Krause
Lucas Krause
19,924 Points

Okay. Now I can see the relation. I didn't look far enough. Sorry for my
short-sightedness.

Anyway, your objection isn't fully correct since there would be only 1 HTTP request, the one requesting your index.php (for example).
The index.php include()s header.php which in turn include()s resources.php. But none of the include() calls invoke a HTTP request unless you are using include() with a "http://" URL wrapper. They just read and include a file from the server's local filesystem which performs really fast in these days.

Hope I get it right (?).

Travis Roemer
Travis Roemer
1,847 Points
Travis Roemer
Travis Roemer
1,847 Points

Can you show us what you have done so far?