Dynamic Title / Site?

iBuddy

I need to know how to change the title dynamically? Below is my template which I used for most of the websites I make.

<html>
<head>
<body>
Header / graphics here
<?php
if (!isset($page))
{
include ("home.php");

}else{

include ("$page.php"); 
}
Footer
?>

</body>
</head>
</html>

So basically the point of the above is to make links like this:

www.domains.com/?page=home

The only thing is the title wont change and I need to know how to dynamically change the title with different pages.

cheerio

<?php
$page = $_GET['page'];

switch($page)
{
  case 'home';
  $title = "Home";
  break;

  case 'contact';
  $title = "Contact Us";
  break;

  default;
  $title = "Default Title";
  break;
}
echo "<title>$title</title>";
?>

That's like the simplest way of doing it (you can use elseif() as well)
But sooner or later you'll learn to make a full template class 🙂

iBuddy

what do you mean by template class?

cheerio

It's a much more advanced way of displaying your website in HTML. The easy thing about it is that you don't need to type like any html, you can used functions and stuff. Here is an example of how a template class can be used(VERY VERY SIMPLE AND BASIC);

$template = new template;
$template->setTitle("YOUR NEW TITLE");
$template->makeBox("Box Title","Box Content");
$template->display();

In a templating class, you basically only need 1 echo, and that's in the $template->display() function. AND, you can change the title and page information in the middle of the script, unlike some other situation where the <title> was already echoed, so it's too late to change it.