Php question re: includes

Following Bobs tutorial.

Say I want to include my navigation menu which has dhtml drop down menus. How would I include that code? Is there any specific format. Usually your scripts go inside the Head tag?


http://www.epitimy.com/callcenter.htm

You can include anywhere in your code.

Say you have a standard 2 column table:

table
tr
td

MENU CODE HERE
MENU CODE HERE
MENU CODE HERE
MENU CODE HERE

/td

td

CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE

/td
/tr
/table

You would take MENU CODE HERE x4, and add it to a file, say menu.php. Then add the include tag to your table, to look like this:

table
tr
td

<?
include('menu.php');
?>

/td

td

CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE
CONTENT HERE

/td
/tr
/table

Just add that include to every page the menu should be on, then you'll only have to change that 1 file down the road.

Right, but I'm using DHTML drop down menus in the table that I'm including so how could I include the function that would normally go in the head tags?

Just add it like normal.

Once all the code is outputted to the browser, it will all look as if you hadn't used any includes, and everything will work as usual.

I have a question related to this topic...

What would cause the included file not to appear at all? I switched back to html without includes becouse of complaints of the menu (included file) not showing up at all. I tested with ie5.5 netscape4.7/6 on win2k and had no problems. I could not duplicate the problem people were telling me about.

Is it most liely a code error, server error, or old browser/os symptom?

It could be a code error, but I've never had any problems with PHP choking on includes. Most likely it's an old browser/os problem. Myabe they pressed the stop button??