Dynamic Meta Tags

jarredj

What would be the best way to include meta tags such as, keywords and description in each page dynamically. I already use a header.php with static meta tags (actually I use the same ones on each page- I know, I know a web faux pas). Most pages on my site are static html pages, but I am going thru and building an area that has "Current News and Events" that is dynamically generated. But as I add new pages I want or "articles to this part of the site- I want dynamic meta tags. I can create SQL databases to put this info in but am so ne that I do not know how to call these out in a page.

pseudonym

function htmlheader($pagetitle, $keywords)
{

if ($keywords == '')
{
	$keywords = "Fixed, Keywords, for, generic, pages";
}
$stuff = "
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">
<html>
<head>
<title>".$pagetitle."</title>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">
<META NAME=\"DESCRIPTION\" CONTENT=\"Your site description of choice\">
<META NAME=\"KEYWORDS\" CONTENT=\"".$keywords."\">
<META NAME=\"COPYRIGHT\" CONTENT=\"yoursite.com\">
<META NAME=\"AUTHOR\" CONTENT=\"yoursite.com\">
</head>
<body>";
return $stuff;
}

Then use it like it like this:


<?php

$pagetitle = $queried['pagetitle']; //Whatever the page title from the database is.

$keywords = $queried['keywords']; //Whatever keywords from your database..

$headers = htmlheader($pagetitle, $keywords);

echo $headers;

?>

Play around with it to suit your needs 🙂

jarredj

So if I used this code along with my database table (meta) would it know by file name what info to pull in?

I mean if you go to my site and you pull up index.html and with in index.html I have include functions would it pull in the info for index.html and not partners.php?

How do I make php know which page I am viewing so that it automatically pulls in the correct info. The data base consists of fieldnames: file_name, title, description and keywords.