what is difference between header and include, where which one should be used

Question

I am confused with two terms

1. header (\"Location:homepage_php\");

2. include(\"homepage.php\");

I am g

Answer 1

1 tells PHP to send a Location header to the HTTP client, forcing a redirect to "homepage.php".

2 tells PHP to include "homepage.php" inline to execution of the current page.

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As a note about your question, your confusion might be over the term "header". It is overloaded sometimes to refer to the top part of a page in reference to code separation. Code separation is a common practice where one puts PHP code/HTML used in multiple pages into a separate file, and then included in the top (header) of each page.

HTH,

-aj