Are you using any type of content management system like Joomla or WordPress or is this all hand written?  If done in PHP I would say a PHP include would do the trick.  Also a server side include might work too. 

Ah Dreamweaver, never used it myself - but did some searching and ran into this:

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=546

Hope that helps!

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Try saving your page as .SHTML rather than .HTML and see if that works for you.

Despite the fact that you mentioned you don't know PHP, I think you can still achieve this with little effort (and you don't even need to "convert" anything you already made).  You could achieve something similar to this in Dreamweaver by using templates, but if you wanted to make an update, you'd have to reupload ALL of the pages (this is kind of a pain).  If you did this in PHP, you would only have to change and upload one file to make the change globally.  It's really not difficult, and requires very little knowledge of PHP to implement.  And once you set it up this way, making changes globally will be very easy.

Basically, you would rename all of your .HTML files to .PHP.  (If, for some reason, this isn't possible for you, you can make a change to your .htaccess file to parse PHP in your HTML document).  Then, you would create a file called footer.php and include that file on all of your pages.

Example:

Footer file:


Wherever you want to include the footer, use this code:


If you're using different paths for files, you would have to append that to the include.  For example, if your footer.php file is in the directory /public_html/inc/, then you would use:


That would be for all the pages in the root of your /public_html/ directory.

If you're calling this include from a deeper folder, such as /public_html/resources/resource.php, then you'd have to call it like this:


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Perhaps you should look at the website first -- www.rhrplus.com.

Questions come to mind like, what happens to javascripts, css, etc rules if everything is converted?  What about layout.... does it get changed in anyway? I have an "index.html" and also an "index.php" for my blog -- seems as though things would start to becoming conflicted -- no? I thought php was for database use -- and, html is for texted base purposes.

Hmmm.... changing the htaccess for now seems less scary to me. What code goes into htaccess?

Like I mentioned, you're really not converting anything.  You're simply changing the .HTML file extension to .PHP (just like we tested before by changing the file name to .SHTML).  This does not affect your layout, CSS, Javascript, etc. unless those files are pointing to the old .HTML file (then you just need to point it to the new file with extension .PHP).

More than likely, your index.html file and index.php file are not in the same folder.  Is this correct?  If I'm right, you should have no problem with your blog.

PHP is, in fact, used to communicate with databases, but it's also used for many other purposes. It does things that HTML cannot (just like this).  HTML is static.  PHP is a dynamic, server-side programming language that lets you do things just like this.

Nothing to be scared about   Try it out on a test page first.  If it works out, implement it on all of your pages.