get title before printing content!

delfa

I need to extract the $title from an included file.

<? if ($page == 'home')
$content = 'include/home.php'; 
?>

<html>
<head>
<title><? echo $title; ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<? include $content; ?>
</body>
</html>

As u can see the $title variable won´t be printed.

How do i get the title from home.php file and print it?

🙁

scoppc

Of course, you wont get the title unless....
You create a function that will generate specific title for specific page. For example:

function titleGen($page){
switch($page){
case "Home":
$title="Welcome";
}
return $title;
}

Something like that...
Put it before you display the $title (of course)

delfa

Yes that´s a good solution!

but the $title that i want is from the database.

I could do this in the index.php file

function titleGen($page){
switch($page){
case "Home":
$that_title = mysql_query("select title from news where id = '$id'");
$titles = mysql_fetch_assoc($that_title)
$title = $titles['title'];
}
return $title;
}

but i do´t think that´s a good ideia because that is done in home.php file.

do u have another ideia?

delfa

Yes that´s a good solution!

but the $title that i want is from the database.

I could do this in the index.php file

function titleGen($page){
switch($page){
case "Home":
$that_title = mysql_query("select title from news where id = '$id'");
$titles = mysql_fetch_assoc($that_title)
$title = $titles['title'];
}
return $title;
}

but i don´t think that´s a good ideia because that is done in home.php file when i extract the content from the database.

do u have another ideia?

Elizabeth

In your home.php page, why don't you break the page up into functions, such as :
-connecting to the database
-selecting the info you want (i.e., getTitle)
-html code for the content (i.e., getContent)

Then include the whole file at the beginning of your html document and call the functions as needed. You could then run the function getTitle to get your title, where appropriate. And later on in your page you can get the content using getContent.

hth-

-Elizabeth

delfa

😃

Thanx!

That should work!