Mal's Web Madness

A basic tutorial on building websites with PHP


Introduction
The Web Page Files
Let's Start
Making It Work
Making More Pages
Making Links
Making Things Sexy

Let's start at the very beginning

1. Make a new folder for your website files, call it webfolder or whatever tickles your fancy.

2. In a new notepad document type:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
This is my Page Title
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

3. Save it as head.inc in the folder.

Congratulations! You have now created your first template file. Let's make another...


1. In a new notepad document type:

</BODY>
</HTML>

2. Save it as footer.inc in your webfolder.

Well done! You now have your footer template. Now for your index page...


1. In a new notepad document type:

<?php
include "head.inc";
?>
<P>Hello World</P>
<?php
include "footer.inc";
?>

2. Save it as index.php in your webfolder.

You now have the basic tools to create and maintain a complex website... I told you it was easy!

Yeah, right, but how do I make it work?