making a page title from text on page?

[Anon]

I'm looking for a quick way to make the title of an html page be automatically populated with a title from the page.

IE- I have a page that's about matchbox cars and it looks like this:

Matchbox 324: Porsche Boxster

Size:
Shape:
Year:
Color:

Now, I want to make the title of the page be dynamically inserted as 'Matchbox 324: Porsche Boxster'

I'm guessing I need to define $title on the page, but I'm not sure how to script the page to do the insert. I guess I'd also need to know what to surround the title on the page with the make it all work.

any help is appreciated.

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cjp

[petrb]

ASSUMING your headlines are all tagged the same, say inside <h3>Matchbox 324: Porsche Boxster</h3>, you could find it from an fread(), then make a variable of that string using ereg() and then...

<?
print ("<title>$title</title>\n");
?>

...but there would be little point to that, really.

Sounds like you might be wanting one of those "dynamic" sites everyone is buzzing about - best thing to do is construct it from the ground up so that your page titles and headlines come from the same query result, eh?

--ph

[Anon]

Thanks for the reply.

I would like to have the site be totally dynamically generated. But I'm not a database guru, and am just getting my feet wet with MySql, so I created a hackneyed php solution that calls articles out of a directory- like this:

www.foo.com/directory/page.php3?article=xxxx&menu=1234

This set up is great for bringing up plain text into some templated shells, but it leaves no room for titling, unless I make it "page.php3?article=xxxx&menu=1234&title=titleofarticle

At present the pages are titled with whatever the 'page.php3' template is named which is fine until I need some readable search engine results. Right now they all say the same thing- IE: Article Archive

So basically, I just wanna delimit the article title on the page and place it in the page title. I'll try your solution or some hopeful coding and try to get it to work. This is a temporary solution until I get my MySql powered solution off the ground. Where I can just call articleID= and have the page populate its own results, like title, author, date, related articles, etc.

Again, thanks for the help. Any other hints or help is greatly appreciated. I really like this php community- what a great place to get quality answers.

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cjp