too many include files?

RonHollingsworth · 03-22-2004, 07:53 PM

Has anyone every had a problem with using too many include files?

How many would be too many?

Reason I ask is because on a site I'm building I have 4 includes. Left Nav, header1, header2, and a footer.

thnx

**John Scott** · 03-22-2004, 08:19 PM

www.internet-marketing-blog.com

I have the footer inc, topnav inc, leftnav inc, ads inc. Maybe even a couple others.

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It shouldn't be a problem.

RonHollingsworth · 03-22-2004, 09:07 PM

thought so...thans John

RonHollingsworth · 03-22-2004, 09:14 PM

ok that was just an unconcealed effort to gain a link to that site. jk

alpha3m · 03-22-2004, 11:09 PM

lol. i havent run into any problems using includes.. YET

**John Scott** · 03-22-2004, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RonHollingsworth

ok that was just an unconcealed effort to gain a link to that site. jk

Actually, no. I just want everybody to know how many includes files I had to make in doing that site. I think that is the most includes files I've ever used on a site.

**John Scott** · 03-22-2004, 11:19 PM

Quote:

banner.php
footer.php
leftnav.php
slogan.php
topnav.php

5 incudes per page.

RonHollingsworth · 03-22-2004, 11:57 PM

Yeah includes ROCK...esp if you have a *hit load of pages.

Dazzla · 03-25-2004, 03:32 AM

A page can possibly never have too many includes. Basically all you are doing is get another page to be displayed within your page.

hatchet · 03-25-2004, 03:49 AM

I've got 6 and 7 includes on some of my administration pages for Protoolreview.

niceguyeddie · 03-25-2004, 04:16 AM

An include uses a portion of memory. Eventually there will be too much memory usage due to the processing that you are doing, but you aren't going to hit that with four or five includes, trust me on that one.

**LazyJim** · 03-25-2004, 07:59 AM

If you might accidentally include() a file more than once, it would be a waste of memory. If you use include_once() it will only load the file if it has not alraedy loaded it, (but always load it if it hasn't already).

imaginemn · 04-12-2004, 12:57 PM

Not sure if you are still interested in this but I worked on a huge project and some of the pages had anywhere from 15 - 25 include files based on the language the user was viewing. Some of the pages were over 100kb in size once you added all the file sizes together.

This was never an issue with our site as far as performance.

The site was setup specifically to separate the code from the content based on different languages. It worked well for us, because the programmers coded and the content managers only had access to the content without always breaking the code. Especially when translating.

The only limitation with include files is that all the include files are downloaded with the page every time. If for some reason you did add the same include file more than once then the file would be served up twice.

ImagineMN