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    Chapter 2 PHP Fundamentals

    <body>
    $content
    </body>
    </html>";

    echo $html;
    </code>

    These are the basic elements needed for a HTML 5 webpage with PHP
    included. You are declaring that you want errors to be turned on at the
    top, as you have done before. The next lines set two variables, one for the
    title and one for the content. The rest of the file sets the variable $html
    to the entirety of HTML that you want displayed on the page. Within this
    code you see the $title and $content variables placed where you want to
    display them on the page. Go ahead and open your browser to this page to
    see how it looks. This can get a little redundant if you have many pages that
    follow the same look and feel presented with the HTML. Therefore, you
    will use this page as a template that you can call and just switch out the
    values you want displayed. Open up main2.php in your editor.

    <code>
    <?php
    //error_reporting( E_ALL );
    //ini_set( "display_errors",1);
    $title = "Beginning PHP 8 & MySQL";
    $content = "Here is the main content for this page";
    $html =include_once "inc/template2.php";
    </code>

    Here you are introducing the include_once function. By calling


    include_once, you tell PHP that you want to load a specific file into this
    area. By separating out the design aspect (HTML) from the PHP, you can
    view your code better and reuse the HTML elements in other PHP files.

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    Building on this example, let’s take it a step further and include multiple
    PHP files in your template. In main2.php, change template.php to
    template2.php and refresh the page.
    In your case, you first include header.php, located within the inc/
    directory. When you use this method of including PHP snippets around
    the HTML in your file, you are essentially creating a template. This
    template (main.php), if used in another file, will still include a header,
    contents, and footer. Let’s create a file called second.php by copying the
    main.php file and naming it second.php.
    Now that you have come to an understanding with your templates on
    how to separate them and use them to your advantage, let’s take a look
    at your variables. So far you have been using variables for trivial content,
    colors, and item names. What if you want to store someone’s name and
    address? It’s perfectly correct to do something like this:

    <code>
    $firstName = "gunnard";
    $lastName = "engebreth";
    </code>

    This works fine until you want to start passing this information around
    between functions in your program. Basically, envision passing your friend
    a handful of Skittles vs. a bag of Skittles. Your friend still gets the Skittles in
    the end, but one way is clean, optimized, and all Skittles are guaranteed to
    reach your friend. This brings us to objects.

    Objects
    In PHP, an object is a specific set of data as defined in a class. In the code
    example above, you would say that the information would belong to a class
    of User. You would define that class as such:

    <code>

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    <?php
       class UserClass
          /* User variables */
          var $firstName;
          var $LastName;

          /* Member functions */


          function setFirstName($firstName){
             $this->firstName = $firstName;
          }

          function getFirstName(){
             echo $this->firstName;
          }

          function setLastName($lastName){
             $this->lastName = $lastName;
          }

          function getLastName(){
             echo $this->lastName;
          }
       }
      </code>

    To create a new user you can call


    <code>
    $user = new UserClass();
    $user->setFirstName('gunnard');
    $user->setLastName('engebreth');
    var_dump($user);
    </code>

    Let’s take a look at this code.

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