Earlier this week the Blog App got a fairly major upgrade. The meta data on this site has been pretty ropey since the site launched, so we thought we’d kill two birds with one stone, by upgrading the site and recording the process.
If you’ve built anything with php you’ve probably used <?php include('somefile.php); ?>to ensure you don’t end up repeating the same chunks of code throughout your site. Or maybe, if you’ve come to perch from Wordpress, you’ve used the get_header(); and get_footer(); functions. perch_layout is similar to all these. It’s used to include common page elements. So why bother? Why not just use <?php include();?>?