best way to add titles to dynamic pages

roseplant

Most of the pages on my site follow the simple pattern:

<?
require('scriptfiles/header.inc');
?>

HTML PAGE

<?
require('scriptfiles/footer.inc');
?>

This of course means that every page has the same title. Well, now I want to change the titles for all the pages on my site individually, to reflect what they contain.

I was thinking of changing each file to start something like:

<?
$title = "Books";
require('scriptfiles/header.inc');
?>

and in the header file, having a line like:

But this would mean opening >100 pages and changing them one by one... not a task I'm looking forward to.

Does anyone know a better method?

I was thinking maybe, if there is a way to recognise what page REQUIREd another file, the header file could contain a switch statment like:

case 'books.php':
echo "<title>books</title>
break;
case 'shoes.php':
echo "<title>shoes</title>

This would mean I could keep everything at a central location for easy editing.
But I dont know if it's possible that a page can know who REQUIRED it.
If anyone's got an idea, I'd love to hear it.

Cheers

PS. Databases are out of the question as i have no SQL support.

mjqtreble

Yes, you can find out who required it!

Just use the environment variable:

$request = getenv('REQUEST_URI');

this will return something like - 'books.php'. Now you just have to strip the extension from the filename:

$title = substr( $request, 0, strlen( $request ) - 4 );

then you can output your string:

echo "<title>$title</title>";

🙂