…are a sodding mystery to me! I decided to make my life easier by using PHP included files to write the header, footer and other static stuff on the pages of this site. Was this a good idea? Well, in theory yes. Having the header and footer in separate files means I only have to update them once and the change is reflected across the site. However, for some reason, PHP include files do not let you use a virtual path. Consider this:<\/p>\n
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