Dynamic meta description and title

[kade119]

I have my header file set as an include, so each page at the moment uses the same description and page title.  How could I use PHP to make the meta information dynamic?

[Pikachu2000]

Define them as variables before including the header page, and just echo them out in the included script.

 

<?php
$title = "Some String of stuff";
$desc = "Some other string of stuff";
include('header.php');
//body 
include('footer.php');
?>

[kade119]

perfect thanks man

[stuartbates]

With meta-tags always a good idea to set default options because as your website grows there's a good chance they will get over looked.  So use a conditional like:

 

if (!isset($title)){
echo '<title>Default Page Title</title>';
} else {
echo '<title>' . $title . '</title>';
}

 

You might also want to consider using the database to drive the meta tags - particularly if you have any form of catalogue.

[kade119]

so if i forget to add the title var on a specific page it will use the default title, is that correct?

 

could you show me how to set it up to use DB functionality?

 

thanks man!!