[SOLVED] Page Names?

[SkyRanger]

Is it possible to somehow read a page title based on the page you are one.

 

for example:

 

if the page is: mainpage.php

 

so inside the mainpagephp it would say:

include "pagetitles.inc";

and inside the the pagetitles.inc file it would say something like:

if whateverpage 
     echo $pagetitle = "Main Page";

[Dragen]

echo $pagetitle = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

[SkyRanger]

echo $pagetitle = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

 

ok, so how would I do that for multiple pages. ie:

 

mainpage.php

$pagetitle = "Main Page";

secondpage.php

$pagetitle = "Second Page";

etc....

 

This would all be in a file called pagetitles.inc

[Dragen]

$page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

if($page == main.php){
$pagetitle = Main Page;
}elseif($page == other.php){
$pagetitle = other page;
}elseif($page = another.php){
$pagetitle = another page);
}

[SkyRanger]

Ok, I created a file called pagesnames.inc with the following code:

 

<?

$page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

if($page == officemembers.php){
$pagetitle = "Office Members";
}elseif($page == sendpm.php){
$pagetitle = "Send Message";
}elseif($page = privatemessages.php){
$pagetitle = "Private Messages";
}

?>

 

In the page officemembers.php i put

 

include "pagenames.inc";

 

Somewhere in the page I put <?=$pagetitle; ?>

 

<?= is because I have html code around it.

 

I get the following errors:

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant officemembers - assumed 'officemembers' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 5

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant php - assumed 'php' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 5

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant sendpm - assumed 'sendpm' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 7

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant php - assumed 'php' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 7

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant privatemessages - assumed 'privatemessages' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 9

 

Notice: Use of undefined constant php - assumed 'php' in /home/prodco/public_html/members/pagetitles.inc on line 9

[per1os]

if($page == 'officemembers.php'){
$pagetitle = "Office Members";
}elseif($page == 'sendpm.php'){
$pagetitle = "Send Message";
}elseif($page == 'privatemessages.php'){
$pagetitle = "Private Messages";
}

 

 

You need to enclose words etc in "" or '' or else it tries to do a constant.

[Dragen]

I presume the lines the error is reffeering to are the if statements?

just for good practice, the opening <? should always be <?php.

why is it: <?=$pagetitle; ?>

I'm not sure why the = is there.. surely it should be:

<?php echo $pagetitle; ?>

 

I've added an else statement at the end.. so that if $page doesn't equal any of the setpages it gives it a default name.

<?php

$page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

if($page == 'officemembers.php'){
$pagetitle = "Office Members";
}elseif($page == 'sendpm.php'){
$pagetitle = "Send Message";
}elseif($page == 'privatemessages.php'){
$pagetitle = "Private Messages";
}else{
$pagetitle = "unknown";
}

?>

[per1os]

I presume the lines the error is reffeering to are the if statements?

just for good practice, the opening <? should always be <?php.

why is it: <?=$pagetitle; ?>

I'm not sure why the = is there.. surely it should be:

?>

 

The <?=$string;?>

 

Was a way that you could print strings out with PHP, it has been depreciated in PHP 5. Now the correct usage is what dragen put above.

 

 

[Dragen]

ah, thanks for clearing that up for me frost!

[SkyRanger]

hmm, ok, not sure why but all the of pages are showing "Private Messages" as the page title.  And I changed all of the <?= to <?php echo

[Dragen]

what is the page name in address bar?

$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]

simply takes the filename.

[per1os]

If you are still using this code:

 

}elseif($page = 'privatemessages.php'){
$pagetitle = "Private Messages";
}

 

That will always default to true due to the 1 equals sign. It is assigning $page = privatemessages.php, which should always return true. Make sure it is == the comparison operator.

[SkyRanger]

Fixed the problem

 

I had to put /dir/filename.php for it to read properly

 

$page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];

I had:
if($page == 'officemembers.php'){
$pagetitle = "Office Members";
}elseif($page == sendpm.php'){
......

When it should have been:
if($page == '/members/officemembers.php'){
$pagetitle = "Office Members";
}elseif($page == '/members/sendpm.php'){
........

 

When I echoed $page it showed me the proper location.

 

Also posted this for others who may want to use this.

 

Thanks for all of you help Dragen and frost110

[Dragen]

glad it's working!