Generate Dynamic Page Title

EqualHate

hi
I know this can be done, but I just can't find the help in the php manual or a tutorial somewhere.
I generate my pages dynamically from the links in a left side navbar like a standard table based layout. When the page reloads it checks to see if the $content variable is set. if it is set it looks up the page to include as record#="$content. This is no problem.
What I want to so is also make the page title which shows in the top of the user's brwsoer say which page is loaded. I know this is possible using the <? php header:xxxxxxx ?> command, but I don't know the specific format.
The title will get passed from $pagetitle. So imagine it is something like: <? php header:"title='$pagetitle'" ?>
can someone help me out here?

mrmufin

I typically do something like this, BEFORE any HTML content is generated:


// grab the name of the file requested by the browser:
switch(basename(__FILE__)) {
	case "login.php":
		$title = "Please Log In";
	break;
	case "about.php":
		$title = "All About Our Stuff";
	break;
	case "manual.php":
		$title = "Read the Manual";
	break;
	default:
		$title = "Welcome to my web site";
}

// Later, when the page is generated, set the HTML title:

echo "<html">;
echo "\n<head>";
echo "\n<title>$title</title>";
echo "\n</head>";

Hope this helps...

jayant

Your page title is in $pagetitle,
so give:

<html>
<head>
<title><? echo $pagetitle; ?></title>
..................

simple ........ eh 😉

EqualHate

I got it, I just was trying to do it the wrong way. I changed my code to put all of the page lookup info before the html tags. Thanks all for the help