More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs: Feed2JS Includes

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Two Levels of PHP Includes

Notes: Case Study 1: Feed2JS and Includes

One part of the power of PHP as a web construction technology is te ability to generate entire sites from templates:

The entire Feed2JS site is powered by a single PHP file, index.php. When a page is requested, for example, clicking the download tab, it is typically passed a parameter via the URL such as .../index.php?s=download. The main template then uses whatever content is inside an external text file named download to dynamically display the web page as viewed.
For the main page the content is stored in a file named about, which itself has its own include of a second file, about.inc. This is the actual content that is published by MovableType.
This multilevel template then allows MovableType to publish just the content on the bottom fo the page (three most recent updates) as a file that is part of the entire content presented for url http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=about
In a similar fashion, the url for the entire update history http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=history uses a blog published history.inc file that is included in the history content file.