dynamic page titles

richardterris · May 28, 2008

Hi all

I have a site in which all the scripting is done on the index page, so that the individual page URLS would be www.mysite.com/index.php?page=pagename

Within this page, the page title is defined, which leaves me stumped as to how to have seperate page titles for each page.

I have looked around for a solution, and the closest thing i can see is an echo title command.

The problem with my site is that each page is the surname of an artist, but for SEO reasons, passing the surname of an artist isn't really enough.

Is there a way, without building a database, to create a page to contain page titles and descriptions, and call these depending on which page the user is on?

If anyone needs to see any code, im happy to put it up, so just let me know.

Hope you can help.

Richard.

rhodesa · May 28, 2008

Yes, please provide the code for index.php

richardterris · May 28, 2008

<html>

<head>

<title>Art Galleries In Glasgow and London - Tracey McNee Fine Art</title>

<!--[if IE]>

<![endif]-->

</head>

<body>

<?php include("header.php"); ?>

</div>

<?php

$url = '';

if (!empty($_GET['category'])) {

$url .= $_GET['category'] . '/';

}

if (!empty($_GET['page'])) {

$url .= $_GET['page'] . '.php';

include $url;

}

else {

include('page1.php');

}

?>

</div>

</div>

<?php include("mainmenu.php"); ?>

</div>

<?php include("artistsmenu.php"); ?>

</div>

</div>

<?php include("footer.php"); ?>

</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>

</body>

</html>

discomatt · May 28, 2008

<?php

switch ( $_GET['page'] ) {

    Case 'gallery':
        $title = 'Ary Gallery';
        break;
    Case 'contact':
        $title = 'Contact Form';
        break;
    Default:
        $title = 'Home';
        break;

}

?>
<html>
<head>
  <title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
</head>

...

rhodesa · May 28, 2008

You can also do something like this:

<?php
   $url = '';
   ob_start();
   if (!empty($_GET['category'])) {
      $url .= $_GET['category'] . '/';
   }
   if (!empty($_GET['page'])) {
      $url .= $_GET['page'] . '.php';
      include $url;
   } else {
      include('page1.php');
   }
   $contents = ob_get_clean();
   $title = strlen($title) ? $title : 'Art Galleries In Glasgow and London - Tracey McNee Fine Art';
?>
<html>
<head>
   <title><?php print $title; ?></title>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
   <meta name="description" content="Tracey McNee Fine Art Ltd., specialists in contemporary art in the U.K. With galleries in Glasgow and London." />
   <meta name="keywords" content="Scottish Artists, British Artists, Oil Paintings, Watercolour, Figurative, Landscape, Sculpture, Hand-made Glass, Ceramics, buy on-line, Glasgow Gallery, London Gallery" />
   <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
      <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"  href="http://www.traceymcnee.com/rss.xml" title="Tracey McNee Fine Art">
   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
   <link href="resources/css/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href='resources/css/ie_fixes.css' type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"> <!-- Container start -->
<div id="container2"> <!-- Container2 start -->
<div id="header"> <!-- Header start -->
<?php include("header.php"); ?>
</div> <!-- Header end -->
<div class="colmask holygrail">
    <div class="colmid">
        <div class="colleft">
            <div class="col1wrap">
                <div class="col1"> <!-- Column 1 start, this is the main content  -->             
<?php print $contents; ?>
                </div> <!-- Column 1 end -->
            </div>
            <div class="col2"> <!-- Column 2 start, this is the left hand menu -->
      <?php include("mainmenu.php"); ?>
            </div> <!-- Column 2 end -->

            <div class="col3"> <!-- Column 3 start, this is the right hand menu -->
      <?php include("artistsmenu.php"); ?>
            </div> <!-- Column 3 end -->
        </div>

    </div>
</div>
<div id="footer"> <!-- Footer start, this is the bottom menu -->
<?php include("footer.php"); ?>
</div> <!-- Footer end -->
</div> <!-- Container2 end -->
</div> <!-- Container end -->
<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>
</body>
</html>

then, on each of the 'included' pages, if you want a different title, just add a block of php code at the top setting the value of $title:

<?php
  $title = 'This is what I want the title to be';
?>
This is the content of the included page

richardterris · May 28, 2008

Brilliant

Thanks a lot guys, that was really bugging me.

Richard

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