Plain Old Semantic HTML » PHP http://plainoldsemantichtml.org POSH! Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:04:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://plainoldsemantichtml.org http://plainoldsemantichtml.org/wp-content/mbp-favicon/page_peppermint.png Plain Old Semantic HTML PHP and the newbie web designer http://plainoldsemantichtml.org/2007/06/05/php-and-the-newbie-web-designer/ http://plainoldsemantichtml.org/2007/06/05/php-and-the-newbie-web-designer/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:03:43 +0000 Martin http://plainoldsemantichtml.com/blog/2007/06/05/php-and-the-newbie-web-designer/ PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) will not bite you! As a matter of fact, it will do you more of a favor than you think! I remember when I began to play around with PHP, I figured that all I’d do with it was to dynamically input the time onto my static page! Those first days are gone now, and what I’ve done with PHP is re-think the way I organize my sites.

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My first site, Web Standards, is now fully PHP driven. I dynamically include my breadcrumb, sidebar, and footer navigation. Not to mention a pretty cool trick. What I do is serve that site as XHTML 1.1 to our favorite Standards-Compliant browsers (you guessed them, Firefox and Opera), while our very, very old friend Internet Explorer gets a measily XHTML 1.0 Strict – all via $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],”application/xhtml+xml”. If that variable does ! (NOT) match, then assume text/html.

My next feats will include a PHP style switcher (switch dependent on UI’s time/day), ala Google’s IGoogle.com.

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