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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Including the Header

Posted by Ira Salem
Ira Salem
10,331 Points

Issues with header.php

I'm having issues with my header.php file loading up correctly to the webpage. When Randy Hoyt in the video his page looks the way it should. When I refresh mine I get a white background with all of the pictures still there.

Help!

Ira Salem
Ira Salem
10,331 Points

Here is my header.php

<html> <head> <title>Shirts 4 Mike</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700" type="text/css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> </head> <body>

<div class="header">

    <div class="wrapper">

        <h1 class="branding-title"><a href="./">Shirts 4 Mike</a></h1>

        <ul class="nav">
            <li class="shirts"><a href="#">Shirts</a></li>
            <li class="contact"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
            <li class="cart"><a href="#">Shopping Cart</a></li>
        </ul>

    </div>

</div>

<div id="content">
Ira Salem
Ira Salem
10,331 Points

Here is the link code used in both the index.html and contact.php

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

I had to remove the "less than symbol" symbol so it would appear but it would be in front of the code.

1 Answer

Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points
Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points

Hi Ira,

Looking at your code, I see that you are missing the opening html tag, as well as the head, /head and body tags.

The whole thing should be in a file called header.php situated in a folder called inc. To include that in your index.php page, you would have the following line at the begining of your file: 

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

Make sure your index has the .php extension, not .html.

Hope that helps, Cosmin