How this website was made. PHP, CSS, and Folders.

Disclaimer: This is nothing fancy. I started out with HTML back in the 90's, started using Wordpress in the 00's, and lost interest in the 10's. I am a casual computer user, and didn't keep up with the times. I wanted something I could keep in one folder on my Desktop again. There is a lot of great flat file code out there, but I wanted something I could understand and control. I have tried to keep any code that I borrowed with the authors name. First things first.

Here is what the public_html folder looks like

The main .htaccess file

The .htaccess file redirects pages so they look like they are all in folders, when it is actually a file. Any requests for http://dispelled.ca/j, or http://dispelled.ca/j/ will be shown the page j.php and the same for the other user pages. It also strips any www. from requests.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^on$
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://dispelled.ca/$1 [R=301,L]
   	RewriteRule ^j$ j.php [L]
   	RewriteRule ^j/$ j.php [L]
	RewriteRule ^cori$ cori.php [L]
	RewriteRule ^cori/$ cori.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.dispelled.ca$ [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://dispelled.ca/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

The main index.php

Basic includes to header.php and footer.php with some RSS feeds of news on the homepage. By the way, whenever I reference a file here, i am using <?php show_source("../../index.php"); ?> Etc. So this is all currently what is running on the webserver. The images shown are from 2014 though lol.

The header.php

I still need to take this inline CSS out of the header file. It's just easier when you are banging out a new layout. Then it opens the divs. After that is a piece of code I added and modified by Chirp Internet: www.chirp.com.au that takes the contents of my categories folder (in the public_html root), displays each folder name, and links to each folders index.php.

The footer.php

Now to get into the categories folder

So there is a folder called categories, with all of the subjects we want to show in the menu. Any pages in the root of the site will get the categories menu across the top.