Dynamic Page Titles and Includes

chrisguk

Hi,

I have the following code and trying to use the index.php to supply the meta data and include the header, footer and content page. The problem I am having is I cant seem to get the include files to work or the header is not picking up my css files.

This is my dir structure

index,php
Other various php files

Folders:

Include/header.php
Include/footer.php

css/style.css

Code withing Index.php:

<?
$page = isset($_GET['p']) ? $_GET['p'] : 'home'; 

switch($page) { 


/*----------------------- PAGES -----------------------------------*/ 

case 'home': 
$title = 'Some title'; 
$keyword = 'Some keywords'; 
$description = 'Some descriptions.'; 
break; 

case 'contact': 
$title = 'Some title'; 
$keyword = 'Some keywords'; 
$description = 'Some descriptions.'; 
break; 

case 'about': 
$title = 'Some title'; 
$keyword = 'Some keywords'; 
$description = 'Some descriptions.'; 
break; 

default:
$title = 'Some title'; 
$keyword = 'Some keywords'; 
$description = 'Some descriptions.'; 
break; 
}
include('include/header.php'); 

include(''.$page.'.php'); 

include('include/footer.php'); 

?>

bradgrafelman

So... what's the question?

Also, do you have error_reporting set to E_ALL (or better) and display_errors set to On? (Check [man]phpinfo/man if you aren't sure.) If PHP can't open the include()'d files, it will emit an error. If something is going wrong inside those include files, PHP will emit an error.

If you're outputting incorrect HTML in those include files... well, your web browser should emit an error for that one, but we can't help you with that since a) you haven't shown us the contents of those include files, and b) you haven't given us enough information about what the problem is.

chrisguk

Thanks for your post. It inspired me to look into my code a little deeper.

I missed out a fundamental part of my links code. I had this:

<a href="index.php">home</a>

and replaced it with this:

<a href="<?php echo $url; ?>/index.php?p=home">

Now it all works 🙂