Insert page title into PHP form filed

kili

Hello Guys
I have a small problem. I have the following code given to me by a helpful chap (Hardcoded) on sitepoint.

[PHP<? $page_title = "My Page Title"; ?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?=$page_title ?></title>
</head>
etc.
<form>
<input name="Trek" size="54" value="<?=$page_title ?>" style="border: 1px solid #99CCFF" />
</form>
etc. [/code]

Now my problem is that the above code is part of form.php which is called as an include on all my pages for users to write reviews, each page has a different title but of course the code above just insersts My Page Title on every page and does not read the <title> different page name<title> of every document on load.

Is there a way to do this with php? If so I would appreciate an example.

Many Thanks

Kili

devinemke

2 suggestions:

in all of your pages simply store the <title> tag as a variable that will in turn be available to any included PHP code.

use output buffereing to grab the <title> tag like so:

<?php ob_start(); ?>

<html>
<head>
<title>This is a TEST</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
$contents = ob_get_contents();
preg_match_all('/\<title>([^\[]*)\<\/title>/', $contents, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
echo 'The title of this page is: ' . $matches[1][0];
?>

</body>
</html>

kili

Thanks devinemke. Would I place this code on each and every page?

 <?php ob_start(); ?> 

<html> 
<head> 
<title>This is a TEST</title> 
</head> 
<body> 

<?php 
$contents = ob_get_contents(); 
preg_match_all('/<title>([^[]*)</title>/', $contents, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); 
echo 'The title of this page is: ' . $matches[1][0]; 
?> 

</body> 
</html>

Cheers Kili

OOps sorry I should have said I want the page title to be inserted into a form field where the form is used as an include on mutiple pages ie trekking reviews may be the title I want to grab and insert on page load to a field called trek on the included form.

Kili

devinemke

in my example $matches[1][0] is just a variable, you can use it anywhere you want

kili

So could I place this in a config.inc file and include it.

I am new to php to sum up

I place the code on any page (or call inlcude as config .inc file).

I'm confused as to how to use this where do I place the code?

The vairables are not something I understand yet

Do you think you could do an idoits guide to setting this up?

Sorry this is all new to me like learning another language.

Cheers Kili

awolfe_ii

I don't want to emit a page title; I want to use it in a file lister in the place of file names for html files.

That is, instead of

fred.txt
harry.html
guido.jpg
larry.html

I would have something like

fred.txt
Biography of Harry Houdini
guido.jpg
Larry Simpson curriculum vitae

I don't want to read an entire HTML file to get the title from the header -- do I need to?

Thanks,

Andrew

leatherback

Hey Awolfe_ii,
you might get mor ereplies if you'd place this in it's own thread.

In short: you'd have to read the file, untill it finds the <title> string, untill it finds the </title> string. But basically, if you'd use the fuinction mentioned below, it's probably easiest if you'd just read the files, yes. (Or just the first ~30 lines, which will in 99.9% of the pages hold the title)