How to put HTML header into a PHP variable

Question

I would like to get my whole site's header into a variable. So, for example, I would like to put these three lines into a single variable:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

And I'm writing a function for it:

function set_header(){
         //This is where i would like to set the variable for the 3 lines I mentioned earlier
}

You can also put the script tags in a header.php file and then include 'header.php'. Just saying; treating plain HTML as plain HTML makes sense. — Sverri M. Olsen
– Sverri M. Olsen, Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 8:47

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 08:12:28Z

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function set_header(){
echo '<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>';
}

set_header();

OR

function set_header(){
return '<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>';
}

echo set_header();

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 8:12

Alasdair

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3 Comments

Milen Mihalev Over a year ago

It's not cool to echo inside a function. Second variant is better.

Milen Mihalev Over a year ago

It's general best practice. Functions are to be used to return something. Not to echo-ing it. Using echo preculdes using the function to programmatically build some HTML for output later on, or for further processing.

Milen Mihalev Over a year ago

For example when you echo the text out of your function just like this: function yourStatus(){ echo ' Done'; } echo 'Status ='. yourStatus();

Milen Mihalev · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 08:14:54Z

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    function set_header(){
    $header = '<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
                <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
                <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>';
    return $header;
}

echo set_header();

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 8:14

Milen Mihalev

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