PHP and Dynamic <head><title>

chrismfz · #1 03-11-2008, 05:59 PM

Hello people.

I designed a website using isset for exploring it.

Example of index.php:

Code:

<?php
include_once("menu.php");
include_once("functions.php");
?>

I got a static menu file something like this:
menu.php:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7" />
...
...
<title> static title here </title>
...
...
link1, link2, link3, linkX
...

and the functions.php which loading all the rest:
functions.php:

Code:

<?php

if(isset($_GET['something'])){
 include("afile.php");
}

elseif(isset($_GET['about'])){
 include("about.php");
}
...
...
etc

So if someone type a www.domain.com/?about after the already
included menu, the file about.php will be included.

I tried to make this work:
eg after the isset to set a $title=something related

and in the menu.php which have the <title> to add:

Code:

<title><?php echo $title ?> </title>

but it didnt worked.
A friend told me that this should be BEFORE the menu.php
but I cant include functions before menu for logical reasons..
(I need the menu in the top of course)

I dont know if I can do this including a second functions like
php but in the if commands to set a title var only not include.

And generally I got confused with this.
Any ideas?

Regards,
Chris

ZeroPing · #2 03-11-2008, 06:10 PM

Don't use a static menu.php with the title tag. In the menu.php, check if the query string (about or whatever) is present - if so, display it within the title tag. If not, display a default title.

AmyWilliams · #3 03-11-2008, 09:29 PM

I think this has something to do with the scope of the variables you are using. You might have to make some of them global.

chrismfz · #4 03-11-2008, 09:38 PM

I dont want to make them global and still I didnt find
a solution searching all evening...

ZeroPing · #5 03-12-2008, 04:28 AM

Sorry, didn't read your post carefully enough. Obviously, your menu.php file tries to echo the title.

The problem is the order in which files are loaded - as far as I know, you can't reference from an earlier loaded file a variable whose value is set later.

I have a simpler solution. In about.php / other similar pages, insert a javascript function executing on load of the body, that sets document.title = Title of Page

Let the default title be 'Loading Page...'

This is a bit messy, but should work.

Fox-Rice · #6 03-12-2008, 07:34 AM

Or, my suggestion would be for you to make a default page(as in if no get variable is set change the title, ect. to something) and then make the function page run like thing:

Code:

<?php
if (isset($_GET["something"]))
{$title=*whatever*;
include("menu.php");
include("afile.php");}

else if (isset($_GET["about"])){
$title="The About Page";
include("menu.php");
include("about.php");
}

else 
{$title="Home Page";
include("menu.php");
include("index.php");}

The reason its not changing the title ect. is because you can't dynamically change the title of a page through php last time i checked.

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