Using $page_title variables before header includes...

vichudson

I am learning to use includes for template design type pages. I am currently using these scripts.....

<?php # This is my new page file
$page_title = 'New Page Title';
include ('./includes/header.html');
?>

this is from header.html

this seems to work fine as my pages always show the correct title however my server error log shows that header.html has an undeclared variable error every time.
Is there something that I can do differently to keep these error messages from bogging down my server log? As I said before the script seems to run fine and page tiles always fill in but I still the error messages.:queasy:
Thanks for any help!🙂

cahva

That shouldnt give you an notice atleast with $page_title. Are you sure that it is that variable that gives you notice? 🙂

Anyway you can make sure there wont be notices if you check if its set first:

if (isset($page_title)) echo $page_title;

vichudson

Thanks for your response. It does specifically mention that variable name. I will try the isset check tonight when I get home. I'm not sure if I understand how it would make a difference in this case though. The script is working as is I just keep getting undefined variable messages in my server log even though the rendered pages have filled in the correct title.

bradgrafelman

Can you also tell what page was being requested and from what IP? As it is now, if someone (or perhaps a search engine's web crawler!) were to visit 'header.html' directly, they would receive such an error.

Can you reproduce this error log oddity, e.g. load this page a few times and see that your own IP is causing these errors?

Finally, have you turned display_errors On and set error_reporting to E_ALL to see if the errors are displayed?

vichudson

This is an unpublished learning project I am doing at home. I am typically the only one accessing them via 'local host'. I have accessed them via 'ip address' today from work and plan to check the log to see if it is doing the same from here when I get home. The error message in the log states undeclared variable $page_title in header.html. I don't remember the exact text of the message but it was detailed addressing the variable by name and line #. What I really thought was weird was that I did not request header.html directly. It was included in the file I did request.