Introduction:
I've got a website at www.speedyoldtruck.com, and want to get the content separated from the form of the site. I know HTML reasonably well and made everything on the site myself starting with a blank notepad document and paint shop pro.
I read the Php.net beginners tutorial and feel I have a shallow grasp on PHP, but don't feel I need to learn every command in PHP in order to get this done, so I'm looking for some help accelerating my learning process, be it code, or the name of commands I should look into to get this started. I don't want to use frames for this though it would probably be easier I think it would look hideous and I don't like frames.
Ok so here's an example of what I would like to do:
Say I have an HTML outline of a page we'll call "projects.php". Projects.php is the rough outline of the site, and calls upon file "x" to create the menu of links at the left of the page with links to other sections of the site. That way, instead of updating a few gazillion pages when I add a section, I can update file "x" and every php page on the site will instantly reflect the link to the new section. File X takes care of the menu content in the left pane of the site.
I also want to make php call on certain files to supply the content for the right pane, which composes the actual content for the site.
So say I navigated to projects.php?headlights. This would take the html/php file projects.php, call on the file "X" to fill in the left pane with links and call on the file "headlights" to fill in the right pane with information about (presumably) headlights. This is all I want to do for now...eventually maybe have another pane which references to the forum on the site but for now I just want to figure out the basics.
Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.
I've got a website at www.speedyoldtruck.com, and want to get the content separated from the form of the site. I know HTML reasonably well and made everything on the site myself starting with a blank notepad document and paint shop pro.
I read the Php.net beginners tutorial and feel I have a shallow grasp on PHP, but don't feel I need to learn every command in PHP in order to get this done, so I'm looking for some help accelerating my learning process, be it code, or the name of commands I should look into to get this started. I don't want to use frames for this though it would probably be easier I think it would look hideous and I don't like frames.
Ok so here's an example of what I would like to do:
Say I have an HTML outline of a page we'll call "projects.php". Projects.php is the rough outline of the site, and calls upon file "x" to create the menu of links at the left of the page with links to other sections of the site. That way, instead of updating a few gazillion pages when I add a section, I can update file "x" and every php page on the site will instantly reflect the link to the new section. File X takes care of the menu content in the left pane of the site.
I also want to make php call on certain files to supply the content for the right pane, which composes the actual content for the site.
So say I navigated to projects.php?headlights. This would take the html/php file projects.php, call on the file "X" to fill in the left pane with links and call on the file "headlights" to fill in the right pane with information about (presumably) headlights. This is all I want to do for now...eventually maybe have another pane which references to the forum on the site but for now I just want to figure out the basics.
Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.