Creating Reusable HTML Components In PHP

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If you’re creating your website with PHP and HTML, you’ll want to reuse some components. For example, instead of creating identical headers for all the pages, you can create one header component and use it on multiple pages. Reusable PHP components will save you time.

In PHP web development, you can create these php components by creating a new file (example: header.component.php). Creating a folder for the file to go in is optional, but in this article, we will do it anyway (components/header.component.php).

Inside the header.component.php file, add the code for your header:

<?php
function createHeader() {
    return '
          <header>
       ...
          </header>
    ';
  }  
?>

Then add this to your page’s code (Not the component. Example: index.php ):

        <?php
            include "./components/header.component.php";
            echo createHeader();
        ?>

Happy Coding Folks!