PHP Single Page Application (SPA) using master page Concept

My students learning PHP ask me to show how to make a single page web application (SPA) in PHP using master page concept. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to do it as simple as possible.

If you want to have HEADER,FOOTER ,LEFT & RIGHT, panel same of more then one page, so we can use master page concept.

Copy and save file in you project directory and run . In this example master.php is treat as a master file which includes specific file which called using hyperlink. Each link is associated with a unique value ,which is received in same page. The value of hyperlink will received using $_REQUEST[‘id’], Corresponding to hyperlink . switch called individual file which is created separately in the same directory as inbox.php, draft.php, compose.php, mail.php.

master.php
<table width=”684″ border=”1″ align=”center”>
<tr>
<td height=”445″><table width=”100%” border=”1″>
<tr>
<td height=”79″> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height=”335″><table width=”100%” border=”1″>
<tr>
<td width=”21%” height=”327″><table width=”100%” border=”1″>
<tr>
<td><a href=”master.php?id=1″>Inbox</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href=”master.php?id=2″>Compose</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href=”master.php?id=3″>Draft</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href=”master.php?id=4″>Mail</a></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width=”58%”>
<?php
$link_id=$_REQUEST[‘id’];
switch($link_id)
{
case 1:
include(‘inbox.php’);
break;
case 2:
include(‘compose.php’);
break;
case 3:
include(‘draft.php’);
break;
case 4:
include(‘mail.php’);
break;
default :
include(‘inbox.php’);
}
?></td>
<td width=”21%”> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>