Set metatags after processing the body

mike13

I am trying to make my title and metatags be dynamically generated along with the rest of the page. The problem comes with the fact that those sections are getting displayed before my queries are run. Is there a tag available that will process the page completely and then move the Title and Meta Tags to the top of the output HTML?

<head>
<title><? echo title; ?></title>
</head>

<body>
<? include("query.php"); ?>
This is the output from the query.

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

Thanks,
Mike

clandestine555

tried readfile("output.php") ?
i dont believe it echos content to the browser, so you could eval it before any output is sent, then add the meta tags when needed

Moonglobe

is there some reason you cant run the query before the <html> 😕? wouldn't it be easier to run it then put everything you need into variables and output them at the rigth spot?

superwormy

Put some unique tag where the keywords and metatags shoudl go, something you can str_replace later, like: <meta name="keywords" value="<I_WILL_REPLACE_THIS_META_KEYWORDS>" />

ob_start() before you do anything at all in the script.

At the end of the script, $contents_of_page = ob_get_contents() to get the output buffered HTML and PHP, and run a str_replace:

$contents_of_page = str_replace ("<I_WILL_REPLACE_THIS_META_KEYWORDS", $your_meta_keywords_variable, $contents_of_page);

print ($contents_of_page);

www.php.net/ob_start
www.php.net/ob_get_contents

Moonglobe

dont forget an ob_end_clean() befoer the print (or echo).