To do that, I just create a functions.php, include/requier it, whatever you like (google whats more efficient). And put my functions in there...

Similar thing to draw pages. In layout.php.

Have head(), takes some paramaters for title, ect.

Then menu(), draws the left navigation bar.. sometimes a bool in head( to decide if I draw this or not (that way it dosnt have its own function).

table(title, content) to draw my page data.

foot() to draw my footer and finish my html tags.

For a demo fo how it all looks (seemless), see, http://bigbob85.insaneparadox.com

Looks nice. That's a pretty awesome idea gonna have to give it a test. Almost finished with the 400+ page php book been at it for a few weeks straigt reading all about it

So long as you put your reading into practice, it'll all be fine .

This php login page is killing me Been at it since 8am its not 11pm still not getting it to work

Whats the problem with it, talk to me later on messenger.

Thank you PHP master Saved the day!!! Infact, you probably saved months

No problems. Im here to help.

Ops I should have pressed edit button instead of back now i got 2 posts... my question is below.

I've got a weird glitch going on with sessions not sure what it could be. When I use echo $_SESSION["username"]; it displays the username on some pages and doesn't on others, it's really random as well so it doesn't always appear on same page. If you refresh page it disappears and reappears. All pages have session_start(); at top and the echo I have above is placed in a seperate header file so it should do the same on all pages but isn't Any clue what is wrong?

No idea.. never used sessions.
Be sure to read your source, maybe its being echoed, but its in between some html tags and just isnt visible.

ARgggg I really need to start working on PHP again... falling behind

A friend (who does webdev) seen a site im working on. Says I should be getting AU$50/hour for the work I do

OMG, well yea your a programmer... really good two and your also young. I looked at the stats from my college and the entry salery for programming starts at $60,000 thats really good if you ask me

BTW what's the site? I wanna see

Will get you to beta test it in a few days

Awesome

So BigBob do you have the site up for me to beta test yet?

Finally figured out sessions, it's amazing how much filename locations can screw up how they work had to use ../../ instead of full address Experimenting is the best way to learn woot lol.

So how do sessions work, can you give me a quick rundown? They seem something I'd like to use.. From what I know, its just a cookie on the server side.

Basically they work like cookies except they are better for security issues because they get trashed when you close your browser. They are pretty easy to work as well here is how they basically work:

Start the session on the login page here is a quick example:

session_start();
$_SESSION['user'] = $user;
header ('Location: controlpanel or wherever');

Then on every page you need to put session_start(); at the VERY top of each page as in the first line because they need to be read before the page loads. And basically there are no limits to what you can do. They can be fun to work with I would just be careful of where you are locating files at because that is where I found trouble.

Example I found it best to use this:

header ('Location ../editprofile.php');

instead of

header ('Location http://www.mysite.com/editprofile.php');

The sessions seem to not pass through well with whole addresses from what I have seen.

header( just redirects though, is it needed for sessions?

Well it depends on how your making sessions. The header is definitly needed for the login page to direct the user to the control panel but it isn't needed on other pages. I just use header redirects for pages that require someone to be logged in, if a session is not in play and they try to access a restricted page it redirects them back to login page.