[Jordan]

Before my CMS days I always created a header.php and footer.php. I included these on all pages after that and it was fairly easy to update and maintain. I think a better method is to make a header.php, footer.php and index.php. The index file would have a select/case statement and receive a variable input. Depending on the variable it would automatically load the page the user is requesting. It would also include your header/footer.php file only once.