Managing Title Tag with PHP

[serge4]

Can someone explain how to manage the title tag with PHP?

[Twey]

What do you mean? You can echo data inside the <title> tag just like any other tag.

[serge4]

yeah, like if my title is "This is my Webpage about _________" php would control the blank part pulling from some variables or somethin

[Twey]

<title>This is my Webpage about <?php echo($title);?></title>
... where $title is the variable to put in.

[dead-poetic]

I would recommend that you use the define function.

[Twey]

Not necessarily... s/he may wish to override it in an include.

[dead-poetic]

<?php define ('TITLE', 'Page Title Here'); 
//requre the header file      
require('require/header.php');  
//rest of code here

//require the footer
require('require/footer.php'); ?>

then you replace the title tags in require/header.php with:

<title><?php if (defined ('TITLE')) {
                    print TITLE;
                } else {
                    print 'Site Title Not Set.';
                    }
        ?></title>

[Twey]

Yes, but what about:

<?php define ('TITLE', 'Page Title Here');

// Start output buffering
ob_start();
// Require the body, which will (try to) set a different title for each page
require('require/body1.php');
$body = ob_get_contents();
// End output buffering
ob_end_clean();

//require the header file
require('require/header.php');  

echo($body);

//require the footer
require('require/footer.php'); ?>

Then s/he can't define the title in the body, which is likely to change, and thus likely to set the title.