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Oct 29th, 2009

Dynamic title errors

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I'm trying to set dynamic titles on my pages with a switch statement, but can't get it to work.

Tried ifelse using code gleaned from Google but it didn't work.

I'm trying to get it so that all my pages' titles are able to be dynamically used from a value across the site stored in my main file - content.php

This is my code:

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<TITLE>My page title</TITLE>
 
<echo $mypagecontent ?>

Fairly basic, but the site is being developed on localhost anyway.

I would appreciate any help with this, as it's a new one for me!

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Re: Dynamic title errors

try this and try to modify accordingly -

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<?
//content is the array of titles which comes from the content.php page or the entire code can be put in the content.php
$content = array('title1 - This is the Homepage','title2 -Find new friends','title3 - Get your visa cleared now','title4 - bark about your wife here','title5 - Dont have kids yet','some other page');
 
$arr = explode('/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
 
$current_page = $arr[count($arr)-1];
//list your pages here
$pages  = array("1=>index.php","2=>friends.php","3=>nicks.php","4=>rent.php","5=>test.php");
for($i = 0; $i<count($pages);$i++)
{
	if($pages[$i] == trim($current_page))
		$pages_index = $i;
	else $pages_index = 6;
}
//This will echo the title
echo $content[pages_index];
?>
<?
//content is the array of titles which comes from the content.php page or the entire code can be put in the content.php
$content = array('title1 - This is the Homepage','title2 -Find new friends','title3 - Get your visa cleared now','title4 - bark about your wife here','title5 - Dont have kids yet','some other page');

$arr = explode('/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

$current_page = $arr[count($arr)-1];
//list your pages here
$pages  = array("1=>index.php","2=>friends.php","3=>nicks.php","4=>rent.php","5=>test.php");
for($i = 0; $i<count($pages);$i++)
{
	if($pages[$i] == trim($current_page))
		$pages_index = $i;
	else $pages_index = 6;
}
//This will echo the title
echo $content[pages_index];
?>

ask,if you stuck up somewhere.

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Another way to do it

Another way would be to have a content.php stored with the following code:

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<?php
 
// Get pagename
$page = $_GET['page'];
if(!$page) $page = "home";
 
// Start pages
 
// Home page
$pagetitle[home] = "Welcome to our site!";
$pagecontent[home] = "We are glad you found our site!<br><font color='green'>Please have a browse through our pages.</font>";
 
// About us page
$pagetitle[aboutus] = "A little about us";
$pagecontent[aboutus] = "We are a small company located in the UK which specialise in SEO.";
 
// 404 Error page
$pagetitle[notfound] = "Error 404";
$pagecontent[notfound] = "The page you requested could not be found. (<b>".$page.")</b>";
 
// Set 404
if(!isset($pagetitle[$page])) $page = "notfound"; // Incase of 404
 
// Display page
//************
// Instead you could include a template file?
//************
echo "<h1>";
echo $pagetitle[$page];
echo "</h1>";
echo $pagecontent[$page];
 
?>
<?php

// Get pagename
$page = $_GET['page'];
if(!$page) $page = "home";

// Start pages

// Home page
$pagetitle[home] = "Welcome to our site!";
$pagecontent[home] = "We are glad you found our site!<br><font color='green'>Please have a browse through our pages.</font>";

// About us page
$pagetitle[aboutus] = "A little about us";
$pagecontent[aboutus] = "We are a small company located in the UK which specialise in SEO.";

// 404 Error page
$pagetitle[notfound] = "Error 404";
$pagecontent[notfound] = "The page you requested could not be found. (<b>".$page.")</b>";

// Set 404
if(!isset($pagetitle[$page])) $page = "notfound"; // Incase of 404

// Display page
//************
// Instead you could include a template file?
//************
echo "<h1>";
echo $pagetitle[$page];
echo "</h1>";
echo $pagecontent[$page];

?>

You could use page IDs if you want but names look better.

Hope this helps

Josh

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Re: Dynamic title errors

Do arrays have to be numbered automatically, or can they be like array[pagetitlename.php]?

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Re: Dynamic title errors

What I did there was an array but not a very good one. It's just vars for the element of the array.

They have to be strings though, no dots or special characters... correct me if i'm wrong.

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Re: Dynamic title errors

This is the variable for the episode titles:

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$phptitle = "<NAME OF PROGRAMME>";

However, I have to manually change it for every page and add it as:

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<?php
$phptitle = "test";
?>
<?php
$phptitle = "test";
?>

which is this further down the page:

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<title>TV Episode Guide: PROGRAMME NAME: <?echo $phptitle ?></title>

I would like to know how to get it so that I can change it dynamically per page, whilst still using the echo variable.

Thanks

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Re: Dynamic title errors

Explain in more detail, tell us about your project.

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Re: Dynamic title errors

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by rokape ...

Explain in more detail, tell us about your project.

It is an episode guide for TV programmes, with the data stored in php variables.

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Re: Dynamic title errors

Basicly...

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<?php
$pagetitle = 'home'; // Set the default title...
$thisepisode = 'Home with the family'; // Your episode name?
 
// Overwrite the $pagetitle
if($thisepisode) $pagetitle = $thisepisode;
 
// Done
 
?>
<?php
$pagetitle = 'home'; // Set the default title...
$thisepisode = 'Home with the family'; // Your episode name?

// Overwrite the $pagetitle
if($thisepisode) $pagetitle = $thisepisode;

// Done

?>

That would work

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Re: Dynamic title errors

This is straightforward if your data is in DB (or file for that matter).
If you have just the one episode.php file and get the relevant programme via querystring and $_GET variable.

The structure of your data will be the key consideration.

If in a DB:

programmes table
id (PK)
page_title (varchar, 200?)
page_description (text)
page_keywords (text)
programme_title (varchar, 200?)
programme_contents (text)
programme_image (varchar, 100?)
programme_trailer_url (e.g. YouTube/Other id)
(other fields like main actors, director, production_company, year, etc)

The "page_" fields just get data to place into the HEAD area of the page. Perhaps "page_title" could be doubled up with "programme_title".

Using a DB may be useful as you could set up a WYSIWYG text editor (e.g. Spaw2/Yahoo!/FCKEditor/TinyMCE) to save this data.

Hand-coding hundreds of variables and placing them in a single file is probably asking for trouble.

The beauty of the DB is that you can search programmes by 'tag' (keywords) or category etc. You can also list programmes from the DB and create relevant links with the id in the querystring:

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$output = "<ul>";
while(){
   $output .="\n\t<li><a href=\"episode.php?prog_id={$row['id']}\"></a>{$row['title']}</li>";
}
$output .="\n</ul>";
 
...more code...
 
echo $output;
$output = "<ul>";
while(){
   $output .="\n\t<li><a href=\"episode.php?prog_id={$row['id']}\"></a>{$row['title']}</li>";
}
$output .="\n</ul>";

...more code...

echo $output;

The querystring will then pass the relevant 'id' via $_GET['prog_id'] to the episode.php page. Then just query the DB to get the whole row - before the DTD. Then fill in your 'placeholder variables'.

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