How to change the title on each page...

Anon

Hi,

My site use a single php page (index.php3) to display all pages of my site.
I have an include for :
- left navigation bar,
- page header,
- page footer,
- and middle page (containing the main content, articles, reviews, etc)
For example : index.php3?file=article1 or index.php3?file=review3

My problem is that the Title and Meta tags are always the same because they are defined in the index.php3 file.

How can i change the title for each pages ?

Thx for any help,
Alex

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Just like you change all the rest; print the title tags and put whatever you want the title to be.

Anon

You could use a function like the following (from Welling and Thomson's PHP and MySQL Web Development):

function display_header($title)
// prints the head section of a webpage

{

<head>
	<title><?=$title?></title>
</head>
<body>

if($title)
	display_heading($title);

}

Then, on each page, call it as follows:
display_header("Title for this page");

The piece in brackets will become the title of the page. You could also fiddle about with this to do the meta-tags etc.

HTH

Kevin

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"if($title)"

and this came from a book? "Welling and Thomson" must have been drinking the night they wrote that 🙂

That is very bad coding practice.

techek

As you might already know, it's best to set the <title> inside the <head>-container-tags. So what you could do would be to get the <title> among the other parts of your page and then display it like all the other parts. Ofcourse with the title in the head and the contents in the body and so on ...

Anon

I think this will not help, as the header is written before the include which should contain the function $display_heading...
that's my problem.

alex

Anon

Conceivably, but it works for me!

Can you, for the education of a newbie, elaborate on why it is bad practice?

Anon

Are you sure? This works OK for me. I open the php <?, and do a require of a separate file where this function is located, and then continue on with the rest of the page. So the function is there before the header area needs to get written. (I'm not a guru on this, so don't flame me for "bad programming practice" please - my first need is to get PHP to work, and then I can worry about elegance ... :-) ).

Kevin