nubby Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 So, I know xhtml/css/javascript pretty well and I just started learning php recently. I am going through all my current sites and fixing things so my code looks a lot better and I get better coding techniques. But I was wondering what is the best way to include title element on all pages without having to individually change each page? Would I just start the title string on the index page and call for $title string on all my other pages so when I want to edit it I only have to do that on the index page? Same with keywords and description? Can someone explain how I would do this a little better? Sorry I am really really new to php. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenUser Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 What's up? I have something like this in my config files. Then have that file required before the html code. <?php $sitename = "My Web Site"; ?> Then for the title ... <title><?php echo $sitename; ?></title> I keep the html header stuff in another file called header, which I require on every page. Hope it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubby Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 What's up? I have something like this in my config files. Then have that file required before the html code. <?php $sitename = "My Web Site"; ?> Then for the title ... <title><?php echo $sitename; ?></title> I keep the html header stuff in another file called header, which I require on every page. Hope it helps. So for all your sites you have meta and head element information like title, keywords, description in a file called config.php? And then basically in the header do: <title><?php echo $sitename; ?></title> But then what do you do for keywords and all that? Sorry if I sound like the biggest beginner. :-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenUser Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 You could do the same ... <meta name="<?php echo $config_keyword; ?>" content="<?php echo $config_description; ?>"> I would just use something like this, make a header file, then use it in in all of your files. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta name="Milk" content="Moo, Moo, Moo!"> <title>Milk Jugs</title> <link href="ss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <body> <div id="main"> Using variables is nice too, but if you have it all in one file, like config.php or header.php it is easier to modify. <?php require('header.php'); ... content goes here ... ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanWhitehouse Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 going on that i would recomend this header.php <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta name="<?php echo $meta_name;?>" content="<?php echo $content;?>"> <title><?php echo $title;?></title> <link href="ss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <body> then index.php <?php $meta_name = "Meta Name"; $content= "content"; $title = "Page title"; require_once 'header.php'; ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubby Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 Thanks a lot guys this should help me a lot more. This seems a lot easier than going back and editing 20+ files. But I did those when I was first learning xhtml and trying to get better web design techniques and style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 here is what I have: $path = "../../"; $title = "Marked Paid"; $rank = "yes"; include ($path."main/include/cons/head.php"); that is on every page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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