What are the potential risks of including header, navigation, and footer sections in individual PHP files?

Including header, navigation, and footer sections in individual PHP files can lead to code duplication and maintenance issues. It can also make it harder to make global changes across all pages. To solve this problem, you can use PHP include or require statements to include these sections in each page dynamically. 

// header.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>My Website</title>
</head>
<body>

// navigation.php
<nav>
    <a href="#">Home</a>
    <a href="#">About</a>
    <a href="#">Contact</a>
</nav>

// footer.php
<footer>
    © 2021 My Website
</footer>

// index.php
<?php
include 'header.php';
include 'navigation.php';

// Content of the page

include 'footer.php';
?>

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