Update footer on many sites from one file/location

I have a bunch of sites with links in the footer that are all the same. I want to set something up so I can update all of the links from one place.

I was thinking maybe like a text file that I update, and all of the sites read the text and pull the links from it, or something.

I would do an iframe, but then I cant track clicks, so that wont work.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks

 

footerLinks.php (the file on the master server, which all other sites can access)

<?php
echo '<a href="http://google.com">Google</a>';
echo " | ";
echo '<a href="http://who.is">Whois</a>';
?>

PHP:

footer.php (the file that holds the footer information right now)

<?php
...
echo file_get_contents("http://location.us/footerLinks.php"); // Gets the footer file from the master server
?>

PHP:

 

Why did you make footerlinks.php a .php file? It could as easily have been .html and probably would do about the same thing. Also, if you have everything on one server, you can use the require_once() function with a relative file path to include the file.

 

That could slow down page load because server has to download the footer first.
You should implement a cache system that saves footer in a local file and displays from there until it expires.

 

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.

Ill give it a try this evening.

 

seems to work as expected, thanks again!