Includes are the feature of PHP that made it catch my eye many years ago. Suddenly not having to duplicate shared headers, footers, etc and keep it all up to da

Includes are the feature of PHP that made it catch my eye many years ago. Suddenly not having to duplicate shared headers, footers, etc and keep it all up to date across my sites was magical. I could only barely write code at all back then but mixing PHP includes into otherwise plain HTML felt natural and intuitive.