A little of my background... I'm fairly new to PHP as I primarily develop in Java. PHP interests me, thus I decided to spend my free time learning it by trying to make one of my relatively static websites more dynamic using PHP.
Right now, I'm have a problem in decorating all the web pages... not really a problem, but it bugs me. I know I can include the header and footer files in every page, but I'm wondering if PHP has some sort of web-based layout/decoration framework?
In Java, I use Sitemesh to decorate my web pages without the need for me to explicitly include the header/footer files. I'm hoping I can do the same in PHP too.
If you have abundance of experience developing web applications in PHP, can you please share some of your knowledge with me here? I'm interested to know the techniques you use to easily decorate your web pages and to change the page layout in the future.
I greatly appreciate your tips and ideas. Thanks much.