Assigning an array to elseif statements

ozzie01

Hi,

I've got script that populates the title, desc and keyword meta tags with the same data for every page. This resides in the index.tpl

However, this isn't good for seo.

What I want to do is dynamically populate the title, description and keyword meta data based on the page that loads.

This is what the code looks like now:

{if $title != '' }
	<title>{$title} </title>
{elseif $config.site_title ne '' }
	<title>{$config.site_title|stripslashes}</title>
{else}
	<title>{lang mkey='title'}</title>
{/if}
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={lang mkey='ENCODING'}" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{$config.meta_keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="{$config.meta_description}" />

I've been told I need to declare the array in the config file, but I'm stuck trying to figure out how to do this.

My brain also freezes up because instead of this data needing to be placed into a header, it sits in on the index and to me I draw a blank when try to figure out how to define the pages from the index...if that makes sense.

Anyway, I don't expect anyone to write the code for me, but I would like it someone could point me in the right direction in plain English. Least then I can have a crack at it.

Thanks

NogDog

Don't know for sure if this is what you're looking for, but what I often do is have the top portion of the page defined as a function in an include file. That function accepts arguments for title, keywords, and description, and has default values if none is provided. Then I just call the function in each page with the desired values:

<?php
require_once 'include_file.php'; // includes definition of page_header()
echo page_header('Page Title', 'list,of,keywords', 'This is the description');
// rest of page follows...
?>

ucffool

Well, using output buffering ( ob_start(), ob_get_contents(), and ob_end_clean() ) you could render part of the page, assign them to variables (or an array, even better), then clean and end the buffer. Finally, you render the real page analyzing the output you grabbed earlier to generate your meta data, output it to the page, then output your page contents that you tucked away earlier.

<?php
ob_start();
echo "This is the page content";
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $contents;
?>