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Creating a global top or bottom menu (cont.)
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<html> <head>... content from the serverside include ...</head> <p>...</p> </html> The most common, free programming language is PHP. Using PHP, you could easily automate the inclusion of a top-level menu and a left-side menu.
Processing steps 1. User requests a page with .php extension. 2. The Web server knows that the page is a PHP page and must be processed first. 3. The PHP module, or CGI program, gets the request for the page and gets the .php file. 4. The PHP processor replaces the PHP include statement with the top header. 5. The PHP processor replaces the PHP include statement with the left menu. 6. The complete HTML document is returned to the Web server. 7. The Web server returns the HTML document to the user.
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