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The top paid web designers got where they are today because they know how to code quickly, efficiently, and to the requests of their clients. Knowing PHP as a language and using its many functions or constructs is going to be mandatory if one is going to rise to the top. Somewhere along the way, the PHP include command will need to be learned.

Normally we woudl call the include statement a function, since it acts and behaves like one. Don't let the exterior fool you, because the include statement is actually what we call a language construct. This phrase is just a simple term for describing a statement in PHP that is so common that we would regard it as an internal component.

The PHP include is going to save us time by allowing us to edit multiple files through a single file. If we had a navigation bar that needed changed, we would normally have to go to every page and change it if we were using HTML. But with PHP we can just reference a remote file, and dynamically change each and every page.

The average "neat freak" will also see benefit from the PHP include statement. PHP includes save many lines of code for those who use them properly. By saving lines of code, it should not be thought that performance is increasing- if anything, it is decreasing. All we are doing is taking out the nonsense code and focusing on other parts of the current application.

Another good function of the PHP include is to keep things in working order. If an include fails, we are going to get a visible error message. Now this isn't always a good thing, since some error messages will expose confidential information about the running script. In more precise situations, we would use the require construct to halt the entire script should it not complete correctly.

Because PHP will only function under the PHP extension, web developers should get into the practice of forgetting the HTML extension and switching to PHP. If they don't, the time will come when they see that PHP is the better alternative, and fixing the extension on hundreds of pages isn't going to be much fun at that point in time.

In Conclusion

PHP is a great language for web developers to learn, but not only because of time saving constructs such as PHP include. PHP is a very robust and powerful language- and is an industry staple for web designers to learn and use in their works. To stay the top in one's field, they'll need an edge on the rest of their competition. Pick up the intricacies of PHP includes, and a web designer is on their way to success.

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