Dynamic Page Title

[-PET-]

Hello,

I'm having a problem.

I have a page. The index and every page contains include(pageheader.php) and include footer).

So everything is working ok. But. I want to create a Dynamic Page Title.
The Page title is MY PAGE, but when i'm on the "CARS" category i want something like: MY PAGE - CARS. Got my point?

Do you have any sugestion hot to do this?

Thanks and sorry for my n00bis

[clamcrusher]

define the page variable before you include your header, then have your header echo it out.


if you find that difficult to do, maybe output buffering would make it easier for you.

ob_start();
include 'header.php';
$header = ob_get_clean();

$title = 'your title';
echo str_replace('***PAGE_TITLE***', $title, $header); 

[-PET-]

the thing is that I must include the "title" after the header. So we woun't se my variable. True?
My page is like this:

Page_header.php
Index.php (or any other paeg)
page_footer.php

Page header includes all the heading...andi ndex is only the body, footer has some table + the </body> tag.

[optl]

In order to accomplish that you are going to need to run script on the final html before outputing it.
For my scripts, I create a $content variable which is added to throughout the page. Then at the end of the page, I can just fit the header and footer around the content variable.

[-PET-]

In order to accomplish that you are going to need to run script on the final html before outputing it.
For my scripts, I create a $content variable which is added to throughout the page. Then at the end of the page, I can just fit the header and footer around the content variable.

I don't really understand your message I mean the english is ok, but don't know the "techincal" details

[24hrs7days]

If your index.php is about to getting data dynamically either from database, or in include file formats... you need to define each title related to the page which is including in index.php... from that place, in header file, you can get the title.

[-PET-]

yes, if i modify the title in the header, it's ok, but I want a dynamic one. If i'm on page X then I want the X title, if i'm on the Y I want Y title. Normaly, I have X for all the pages.

[Rodney H.]

In order to accomplish that you are going to need to run script on the final html before outputing it.
For my scripts, I create a $content variable which is added to throughout the page. Then at the end of the page, I can just fit the header and footer around the content variable.

That is what I do too.

You run your script, and based on conditions of the page, you BUILD your variable

$content = '<h1>Page Header</h1>'; 

As the script progresses, you may need to concatenate more onto the content var:

$content .= '<p>this too, but not that...</p>'; 

After you figure out the content of the page, you can then DEFINE YOUR TITLE, and include your page structure, whether it exits in one file as a "bootstrap" or in multiple files like a header, navigation, and footer, etc...

if($this == true)
{
  $title = 'Page ONE: A';
}
else {
  $title = 'Page ONE: B';
}

include('includes/header.php');
include('includes/footer.php');
$page = $header . $content . $footer;
echo $page; 

THere are better ways of doing this, but it shows you the general concept of ONE way to approach it...

The neat thing about figuring out the content first is that you can dynamically define page titles, style sheets, etc... first before/while building your page.

Hope that helps.

[-PET-]

this is to complicated for me
sorry

[legogirl]

ok edit the title tags in your pageheader.php file to this:

<title>
	<?php if (defined ('TITLE')) 
	{	
		print TITLE;
	}
	else
	{	print 'YourSite.com';
	}?>
</title>

and then on your index.php page put this at the top:

<?php 
define ('TITLE', "YourSite.com - Homepage");  
include_once("pageheader.php"); 
?>

and then on your about_us.php (for example) page put this at the top:

<?php 
define ('TITLE', "YourSite.com - About Us");  
include_once("pageheader.php"); 
?>

If you fail to define a title for a page, the default title of "YourSite.com" will be used for the title tags.

Hope it helps.

[-PET-]

hey, it works. Thanks

[jags2ooo]

Old Topic but i have to post, just to say Thank you so much for this, THANKS THANKS THANKS. This made my day!