PHP Coding help?

[Chiana]

If I'm trying to find a way to code some ads that always display in the same column on every page of my site and can be changed by amending one page of code, would I be doing the right thing by coding for use in PHP or should I be using a .shtml???

I'm so confused by all this.

[php_rules]

you can use php to do this - its pretty easy to do, there are two stages to this, firstly make a .php file (I'll call it advert.php) inside this file you will need to place the code to display your advert. Then inside the pages at the point where you want the advert to appear, simply put the code

include "advert.php"

inside your php tags
You can find more info here PHP: include - Manual

[Lazlo90]

Using the include function would probably be the best way as the other person stated.

I've done it before and it works fine. So if you were adding Google Adsense, just place your Adsense code inside that ads.php file and it should work without any problems.

Alternatively, if your pages are static HTML, PHP functions obviously won't work and you'll have to use an iframe, however I'd avoid that plus I don't think most ad providers allow it. I'd only iframe ads that you put in there yourself such as banners to your other sites etc.

[Sentinel]

You would have to rename the pages to be .php instead of .html so that the include works, otherwise it wouldn't work properly it wont affect the way that the pages display, it will only cause them to be processed by the php interpreter before being sent to the client's browser =)