PHP includes external files

This is the CSS-formatted template page used for this site. It's a simple HTML page that uses division, or ‹div› tags, instead of table rows and cells, to structure the space. There's four divisions: top, left, right, and middle. In each division php is inserting, or "including", a fragment of an HTML file, one without the head or body tags. PHP scripting combined with style sheets makes for a quick-loading and consistent design across large sites.


‹!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"›

‹head›
‹?php include("include/head.inc"); ?›
‹/head›

‹body›

‹div id="top"›

‹img 	src="images/logo.gif" 
	alt="Toronto Association for Community Living" 
	width="497" 
	height="57" 
	border="0"›

‹/div›

‹div id="left"›
‹?php include(MENU); ?›
‹/div›

‹div id="middle"›
		‹?php 
		echo "‹!-- view area --›\n";
		if (INCLUDEFLAG)
		{
			include(PAGECONTENT);
		} else {
			echo PAGECONTENT; 
		}
		echo "‹!-- end view area --›\n";
		?›
‹/div›

‹div id="right"›
‹?php include("content/rightmenu.html"); ?›
‹/div›

‹/body›
‹/html›