how to create a master design page then all other pages use that master design

i have a backend and im sick of copying the css, and design layout each time i create a ne开发者_Python百科w page. how can i easily keep a master design and every new page i create i can write whatever i want and it will use the master design and tabs that ive set?

i dont want to get into smarty or anything related to that because its gonna take time to learn it. is there another alternative preferably something easy and fast?

thanks

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Using only PHP you could do something as simple as:

inlucude 'top_with_css_includes_and_all.php';

// do your page stuff here

include 'footer.php';

I suggest that you use a light weight framework if you find Smarty or other similar frameworks to cumbersome.

You could have a look at Flourish specifically the fTemplate class.