Header footer and includes

Wappler General Need Help
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Hello Community,

I am back with wappler and started building my first page with index.php / header.php + footer.php as server side includes. I am using Bootstrap 5 local and added it with all 3 pages (index/header/footer) at first.

With Joomla 4 I was able to add includes with header at one place globally for all pages. Therefore my thought was, to activate Bootstrap only with my header.php. Since I will use my header on pretty much every page, I assumed Bootstrap 5 would be included for every new page along with my header.php.

Basically I am asking:

  1. Do I have to activate Bootstrap 5 for every new page or …
  2. Is there a way to apply something like Bootstrap 5 or else globally, so I don’t have to include for every new page
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Welcome back @WatchThatCode :slightly_smiling_face:

There are a couple of ways of doing this. You can create an include file (_header.php is what I would usually do) and include that on all your pages. Or you can just let Wappler handle the Bootstrap integration. I often create a template page (_template.php) which I then duplicate when wanting to create a new page and this will have all the basic includes in it.

I’m sure there are other, and probably better, ways to do this but hope it helps.

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To add to what @sitestreet has said,

Yes

Wappler includes the links to the support files every time you create a new page.

As an alternative, try using Node/Express which has a great templating system.

A bit old but may help:

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Thank you :slight_smile:

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Wappler will automatically add the frameworks selected in your project settings for every new html page you create in your project.

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+1 for your tip…just found it :slight_smile: