DarkxPunk Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I will admit it. I prob need someone to do the job for me. PHP is very new to me, most I have made it do is a basic email form following a tutorial. So thank you to anyone who helps me out. It will be a learning experience for me.So I need php to change the title inside the header based on the URL. I know search engines dont read it when you use js so I need to do it in php.Thanks for any help,Michael Snape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 There are several ways to achieve this, heres just one <?php$pageName = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '.php').'.php'; switch ($pageName){case 'currentpage.php': $title= "Current Page Title"; $description = "this describes the currentpage page"; break;case 'about.php': $title= "About Page title"; $description = "this describes the about page"; break;default: $title= ""; $description = "";} ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title><?php echo $title; ?></title><meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkxPunk Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Amazing worked like a charm. If you are able to maybe break it down and explain how it all works I would love you for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 changed slightly, did not require.'php' for file name retrieval. <?php//retrieve filename from path retrieved by using $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']$pageName = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);//compare variable $pageName value with those define with each case '....':, if found apply value to specific variable and break (stop going any further), else show default.switch ($pageName){case 'currentpage.php': $title= "Current Page Title"; $description = "this describes the currentpage page"; break;case 'about.php': $title= "About Page title"; $description = "this describes the about page"; break;default: $title= ""; $description = "";} ?> rest is just applying value of title and description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkxPunk Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Completely understand. Thank you very much! I also used this (instead of JS which you helped with) to load the navigation bars style, sadly the JS was not working in IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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