why wont this php thing work?

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:18

right, i use php include for my header and footer and i wanted the title to be different on every page so i did some php.

i put the title like this

<title>
<?php
echo("Company Reviews :: $title");
?>
</title>

on the header.php

and on every page i have put

<?php
$title = "Auctions - Ebay, Gothic Auctions and Deal Spin";
?>

This should then set the title as Company Reviews :: Auctions - Ebay, Gothic Auctions and Deal Spin right?. Well it doesn't why not?

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 14:24

I know it's a simple question but, do you make the $title assignment BEFORE the <?php echo"$title"; ?> ?

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:31

no, is that why? balls

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:32

is there any way to do it then because i cannot put the $title assignment before the <?php echo"$title"; ?> because the <?php echo"$title"; ?> is in the title of the webpage and the $title assignment is in the body. helpp, lol.

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 14:35

LOL!

In order for a varible to be manipulated/displayed it MUST be assigned a value BEFORE that manipulation takes place.

If you place the assignment of the value ($title = "blah blah blah"

BEFORE the display (echo $title

you WILL get "blah blah blah". But if you attempt to display the value of $title BEFORE assigning it a value, you will get absolutely nothing.

I do not know of ANY programming language that is that intuitive.

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:38

so theres no way i can change the title on every page when i use the same header for every page? not at all, there must be a way.

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 14:39

Yes, there most certainly is a way.

Before you even get to the <html> tag do this:

PHP Code:


<?

  $title = "foobar";

?>

<html>

  <head>

    <title><? echo $title; ?></title>

  </head>

  <body>

  ...the rest of your code here...

John

PS. if this won't work for you, maybe you should post some of your code here so it can be evaluated.

Why would you want to make the $title assignment in the body of an HTML page anyway???

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:41

yes, but that would still be in the header leaving it the same for every page wouldnt it?

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 14:42

Post the code for one of your pages.

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:49

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that is the code without the PHP in,

this is the header

this is the footer

and an example of one of the pages is

<?php include("header.php");?>

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<?php include("footer.php");?>

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:51

every page is like the bottom example so i want a different title for each one for better search engine rankings etc but the header title tags is the same for every page

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 14:55

Why can't you do this?

PHP Code:


<?php 

  $title = "foobar";

  include("header.php");

?>

Would that solve it?

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 14:56

where would i put that? any chance of including it in the header for me so i can see?

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 15:08

If you put that code in the header.php file you would have a redundant call to you header.php file and that would be nasty.

It was my understanding that that you wanted each page to have a different title... hold on... let me see what I can put together that might clear it up.

In this example you are assigning the value of $title BEFORE you include the header.php file.

PHP Code:


<?php

  $title = "The title of THIS particular page";

  include("header.php");

?>





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<?php include("footer.php");?>

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 15:08

ohhh, i see what you mean now, ill go try that, thankyou very much John

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 15:09

No problem.

John

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 15:22

you know i would of never though of that in a million years.

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 15:24

yayyy it works, thankyou ever so much, thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou. lmao and once again thankyou.

**PHP John** · Aug 4, 2002 15:28

Glad it worked!

**D4M00S3** · Aug 4, 2002 16:51

so am i

*falls over*

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