One of the main advantages to using PHP is the use of INCLUDES. With HTML web pages, to make a change to one menu option will involve you editting every single page. This can be very time consuming and nowadays something that will happen on a regular basis.

Using pHP and an INCLUDE you can do this just by having a menu in a seperate file and including it into the main page where you would like the menu to appear. My tutorials menu on the side is in an include, and so is the top of the page as well as the footer part. more…