jquery mobile header repeat across pages - php

Question

I'm setting up a multi-page jquery mobile page based on the provided template:
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.1/docs/pages/multipage-template.html
How can I get the header/footer to repeat on all the pages without duplicating it in the page content.
Is there a jquery script for this or do I have to use some kind of php include file?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use JS (jQuery) to make a template and append it to each data-role="page" element as it's being created.
//create template, notice the "{TITLE}" place-holder for dynamically adding titles
var myHeaderHTML = '<div data-role="header" data-id="my-header" data-position="fixed"><h1>{TITLE}</h1></div>';
//create delegated event handler for the "pagecreate" event for all pseudo-pages
$(document).on('pagecreate', '[data-role="page"]', function () {
//get the title of this page, if none is given then use a generic title
var title = $(this).data('title') || 'Some Generic Title';
//add the header to this pseudo-page
$(this).append(myHeaderHTML.replace('{TITLE}', title));
});​
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/vmMVj/
This will append a fixed header to every page as it is being created. I added support for passing a unique title by adding a data-title="Some Title" attribute to the data-role="page" element.
Note that I chose the pagecreate event because it occurs when the pseudo-page is about to be initialized. If you were to bind to the pageinit event, you'd be too late and have to initialize the header widget manually.

Answer 2

As far as I know, you must include a header and footer within each data-role="page" container. If you wan't to avoid typing this out for each page, then I would require_once() a page in PHP that includes the header or footer, and use that in place of writing out a header and footer each time.
Sample:
<section data-role="page">
<?php require_once("header.php"); ?>
<div data-role="content">
<p>Hello world!</p>
</div>
<?php require_once("footer.php");?>
</section>
header.php:
<header data-role="header">
<h1>Title</h1>
</header>
footer.php:
<footer data-role="footer">
<<p>Footer content here</p>
</footer>

Answer 3

Why more JS ?? ... instead of adding two elements for header and footer (either "header" and "footer" tags, or divs with appropriate classes, but mandatory with "position: fixed;") - and add padding top and bottom of the pages divs ? ... No JS code needed ... which will improves the performance ... although very little :) ...