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  • I am using dreamweaver and i cut out the header portion of my page and save it to another php page called "header.php". I then use php include function to make sure that header shows up on the page. The function is working in that it recognizes the header.php file, i know this because dreamweaver recognizes it, but when i open in browser the entire header does not show up. Here is the code: HEADER.PHP: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-… <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link href="stylesheets/public.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <title>Widget Corp</title> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <h1>Widget Corp</h1> </div> <div id="main"> ......................................… THIS IS THE PAGE I AM TRYING TO USE IT ON: <?php include('includes/header.php'); ?> <table id="structure"> <tr> <td id ="navigation">  </td> <td id="page"> <h2>Staff Menu</h2> <p>Welcome to the staff area.</p> <ul> <li><a href="content.php">Manage Website Content</a></id> <li><a href="new_user.php">Add Staff User</a></li> <li><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table > <?php include("includes/footer.php"); ?> NOTES: - I am having the same problem with the footer.php ****When i copy and paste the header back onto the page it works exactly like it should, so i know the header coding is perfectly fine.

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    At first glance, it could be one of two issues. One PHP needs to be run on a webserver. The webserver processes the PHP scripting, then outputs the html. You can get free personal webservers for your computer to run scripts. Testing and development are best for these sites. http://gitlez.comxa.com/ then download the Newbie_Package.7z It contains a simple development server, with no install required. Simply un-zip and run. The next possible issue is that the file path to the header.php file is incorrect. If you're running the page on a PHP configured server, then you should get a warning telling you that PHP cannot locate 'includes/header.php' If you can see the <?php include( 'includes/header.php' ); ?> in your web browser, then you are not running the page on a PHP configured host. The last possible option is that the file you are loading in your web browser has the .html extension. Most servers are not configured to look for PHP in files with the .html extension, simply changing the extension to .php will tell the server to process the page as a PHP file. As long as you are running it on a server with PHP installed. Further questions/follow up questions can be emailed to me through my profile page. Cheers, Gitlez

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