So I would like to print name of the current page in the title tag of the head.
I include my head in every page like this:
include 'includes/head.php';
This is my head:
<head>
<?php $page = basename(__FILE__, '.php'); ?>
<title><?php echo ucfirst($page); ?><title>
</head>
I thought this would work, but now it just shows "Head" on every page.
I know I can make it work by just putting the $page variable on every page but I would like to prevent this.
So is there any way to print the name of the current page through the included head.php file without adding anything to every page?
Thanks
EDIT
This is how I fixed it:
$page = pathinfo($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],PATHINFO_FILENAME);
If you were to create a file head.php with the following content
<?php
$xpage = pathinfo( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],PATHINFO_BASENAME );
$ypage = pathinfo( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],PATHINFO_FILENAME );
echo "
<!--
with extension
{$xpage}
without extension
{$ypage}
-->";
?>
and include in your regular php pages using include '/path/to/head.php' you should get the desired result ~ you will see two options - with or without file extension.
To add this to the document title simply echo whichever option is preferrable
<title><?php echo $ypage;?></title>
Try this enclosing the $page variable in php tags:
<head>
<?php $page = basename(__FILE__, '.php'); ?>
<title><?php echo ucfirst($page); ?><title>
</head>
You have several problems, first one is curly bracket in front of the echo, the second one is that end title tag is missing forward slash and probably last one is that page variable is not inside php tags...
So your code should look like:
<?php $page = basename(__FILE__, '.php'); ?>
<title><?php echo ucfirst($page); ?></title>
You could use a function like this:
head.php
<?php
function head($page) {
echo "<head>";
echo "<title>".ucfirst($page)."<title>";
echo "</head>"
}
index.php
<?php
include 'includes/head.php';
$page = basename(__FILE__, '.php');
head(page);
Related
I have to make some changes on my old website where I'm not using any templating system. I'm loading the content for some pages from a database based on ?page parameter. So I have something like this:
<title>Page title</title>
...
...
...
$page_id = $_GET['page'];
include 'page.php'; //escaping is done in this file
Inside the page.php file I'm actually loading the information about the page. Based on this information I have to change the title of the main page.
I know that this design is not good at all and I wouldn't do this way these days, but to change everything on this website would be too complicated.
Thank you for your ideas.
Try to add php code before title
<html>
<?php
$page_id=$_GET["page"];
include('page.php');
echo "<title>".$page_title."</title>";
?>
<body></body></html>
Inside page.php:
echo '<script>
document.title = "This is the new page title.";
</script>';
How to dynamically change a web page's title?
Enjoy !
<?php
$page_id = $_GET['page'];
if ($page_id == 'first value') {
$title = 'first title';
} else {
$title = 'second title';
}
?>
<title><?php echo $title?></title>
...<?php
include 'page.php'; //escaping is done in this file
Ok so I am making a website on each page where I want to include a file sidebar.php .
In sidebar.php I would like to echo the name of file that included sidebar.php .
Below are contents of sidebar.php, they return 'sidebar'.
<?php
$file = basename(__FILE__, '.php');
echo $file;
;?>
I found a similar question but the whole point is that I don't have to make no variables in on each page.
Excuse me for vague use of word 'include', I am using the it as the statement in php.
You could pass it to the sidebar page through a session variable:
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['filename'] = "thisFilesName.php";
include('../sidebar.php');
?>
sidebar.php:
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['filename'];
?>
page.php:
<?php
include("header.php");
$title = "TITLE";
?>
header.php:
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
I want my title to be set after including the header file. Is it possible to do this?
expanding on Dainis Abols answer, and your question on output handling,
consider the following:
your header.php has the title tag set to <title>%TITLE%</title>;
the "%" are important since hardly anyone types %TITLE% so u can use that for str_replace() later.
then, you can use output buffer like so
<?php
ob_start();
include("header.php");
$buffer=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$buffer=str_replace("%TITLE%","NEW TITLE",$buffer);
echo $buffer;
?>
and that should do it.
EDIT
I believe Guy's idea works better since it gives you a default if you need it, IE:
The title is now <title>Backup Title</title>
Code is now:
<?php
ob_start();
include("header.php");
$buffer=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$title = "page title";
$buffer = preg_replace('/(<title>)(.*?)(<\/title>)/i', '$1' . $title . '$3', $buffer);
echo $buffer;
?>
1. Simply add $title variable before require function
<?php
$title = "Your title goes here";
require("header.php");
?>
2. Add following code into header.php
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
What you can do is, you store the output in a variable like:
header.php
<?php
$output = '<html><title>%TITLE%</title><body>';
?>
PS: You need to remove all echos/prints etc so that all possible output is stored in the $output variable.
This can be easely done, by defining $output = ''; at the start of the file and then find/replace echo to $output .=.
And then replace the %TITLE% to what you need:
<?php
include("header.php");
$title = "TITLE";
$output = str_replace('%TITLE%', $title, $output);
echo $output;
?>
Another way is using javascript in your code, instead of:
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
Put this in there:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.title = "<?=$title;?>"
</script>
Or jQuery, if you prefer:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(this).attr("title", "<?=$title;?>");
});
</script>
Expanding a little on we.mamat's answer,
you could use a preg_replace instead of the simple replace and remove the need for a %title% altogether. Something like this:
<?php
ob_start();
include("header.php");
$buffer=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$title = "page title";
$buffer = preg_replace('/(<title>)(.*?)(<\/title>)/i', '$1' . $title . '$3', $buffer);
echo $buffer;
?>
you can set using JavaScript
<script language="javascript">
document.title = "The new title goes here.";
</script>
Add this code on top your page
<?php
$title="This is the new page title";
?>
Add this code on your Template header file (include)
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
It's very easy.
Put this code in header.php
<?
$sitename = 'Your Site Name'
$pagetitle;
if(isset($pagetitle)){
echo "<title>$pagetitle." | ". $sitename</title>";
}
else {
echo "<title>$sitename</title>";
}
?>
Then in the page put there :
<?
$pagetitle = 'Sign up'
include "header.php";
?>
So if you are on Index.php , The title is Your Site Name.
And for example if you are on sign up page , The title is Sign up | Your Site Name
Every Simple just using a function , I created it .
<?
function change_meta_tags($title,$description,$keywords){
// This function made by Jamil Hammash
$output = ob_get_contents();
if ( ob_get_length() > 0) { ob_end_clean(); }
$patterns = array("/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/","<meta name='description' content='(.*)'>","<meta name='keywords' content='(.*)'>");
$replacements = array("<title>$title</title>","meta name='description' content='$description'","meta name='keywords' content='$keywords'");
$output = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements,$output);
echo $output;
}
?>
First of all you must create function.php file and put this function inside ,then make require under the MetaTags in Header.php .
To use this function change_meta_tags("NEW TITLE","NEW DESCRIPTION",NEW KEYWORDS); .
Don't use this function in Header.php !! just with another pages .
Use a jQuery function like this:
$("title").html('your title');
I am trying to dynamically populate the title tag on a website. I have the following code in my index.php page
<?php $title = 'myTitle'; include("header.php"); ?>
And the following on my header page
<title><?php if (isset($title)) {echo $title;}
else {echo "My Website";} ?></title>
But no matter what I do, I cannot get this code to work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks
This works (tested it - create a new folder, put your first line of code in a file called index.php and the second one in header.php, run it, check the title bar).
You should double check if those two files are in the same folder, and that you're including the right header.php from the right index.php. And ensure that $title is not being set back to null somewhere in your code.
Learn more about Variable Scope here.
Edit: Examples of visible changes would be:
TEST1<?php $title = 'myTitle'; include("header.php"); ?>
<title>TEST2<?php if ...
Are you including the header file before or after you set the title variable? If you're including it before, then of course it won't be set.
if you're doing something like this in your index.php:
<?php
include('header.php');
$title = "blah blah blah";
?>
then it won't work - you include the header file and output the title text before the $title variable is ever set.
try to declare the variable before using it
$title = '123';
require 'includes/header.php';
Hi Try this old school method ..
In your Header file (for e.g. header.php)
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo '<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 7 ]><html class="ie7" lang="en"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]><html class="ie8" lang="en"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]><html class="ie9" lang="en"><![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 10)|!(IE)]><!-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US">
<!--<![endif]-->
<head>';
?>
<?php
if($GLOBALS['title']) {
$title = $GLOBALS['title'];
} else {
$GLOBALS['title'] = "Welcome to My Website";
}
if($GLOBALS['desc']) {
$desc = $GLOBALS['desc'];
} else {
$desc = "This is a default description of my website";
}
if($GLOBALS['keywords']) {
$keywords = $GLOBALS['keywords'];
} else {
$keywords = "my, site, key, words";
}
echo "\r\n";
echo "<title> ". $title ." | MyWebsite.com </title>";
echo "\r\n";
echo "<meta name=\"description\" content='". $GLOBALS['title']."'>";
echo "\r\n";
echo "<meta name=\"keywords\" content='".$GLOBALS['title']."'>";
echo "\r\n";
?>
In you PHP Page file do like this (for example about.php)
<?php
$GLOBALS['title'] = 'About MyWebsite -This is a Full SEO Title';
$GLOBALS['desc'] = 'This is a description';
$GLOBALS['keywords'] ='keyword, keywords, keys';
include("header.php");
?>
I assume your header is stored in a different file (could be outside the root directory) then all the above solutions will not work for you because $title is set before it is defined.
Here is my solution:
in your header.php file you need to set the $title to be global by: global $title; then echo it in your title so:
<?php global $title; ?>
<title><?php echo isset($title) ? $title : "{YOUR SITE NAME}"; ?></title>
Then in every page now you can define your title after you have included your header file so for example in your index.php file:
include_once("header.php");
$title = "Your title for better SEO"
This is tested and it is working.
We can also use functions and its a good way to work on real time web sites.
Do simple:
create an index.php file and paste these lines:
<?php include("title.php");?>
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php index_Title(); ?></title>
<head>
</html>
-- Then
Create a title.php file and paste these lines:
<?php
function index_Title(){
$title = '.:: itsmeShubham ::.';
if (isset($title)){
echo $title;
}else{
echo "My Website";
};
}
?>
It will work perfectly as you want and we can also update any title by touching only one title.php file.
<?php
echo basename(pathinfo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])['basename'],".php");
?>
This works. Since I'm using PHP I don't check for other extensions; use pathinfo['extension'] in case that's required.
You can achieve that by using define(); function.
In your header.php file add following line :
<title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title>
And on that page where you want to set dynamic title, Add following lines:
EX : my page name is user-profile.php where I want to set dynamic title
so I will add those lines that page.
<?php
define('TITLE','User Profile'); //variable which is used in header.php
include('header.php');
include('dbConnection.php');
?>
So my user-profile/.php file will be having title: User Profile
As like this you can add title on any page on your site
Example Template.php
<?php
if (!isset($rel)) {$rel = './';}
if (!isset($header)) {
$header = true;
?><html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php } else { ?>
</body>
</html><?php } ?>
Pages Your Content
<?php
$rel = './'; // location of page relative to template.php
$pageTitle = 'This is my page title!';
include $rel . 'template.php';
?>
Page content here
<?php include $rel . 'template.php'; ?>
I'm using your code in my project and it works properly
My code in header:
<title>
<?php
if (isset($title)) {echo $title;}
else {echo "عنوانی پیدا نشد!";}
?>
</title>
and my code in index.php:
<?php
$title = "سرنا صفحه اصلی";
include("./include/header-menu.php");
?>
My website's pages are (or will) all be identical, except for the content of the #main div. So I was thinking in the <head> I could do <?php $page = "home.html"?>, where home.html is the bare contents (not a full html page - no <html>, <head> etc.) of the main div for the home page. So then inside <div id="main"> and </div> I could have <?php include($page);?>. Then the reason I'm asking this question is I want to change $page when a link is clicked. How can I do this? Thanks.
You could make the links be like this:
Other Page
Then also in the top of the page where you set page to the value of $_GET['page']
<?php
if (isset($_GET['page']))
{
$page = $_GET['page'] . ".html";
} else {
$page = "home.html";
}
?>
Your link has to be like:
home.php?page=test
You will get the value in your page variable like this:
if(isset($_GET['page']))
$page = $_GET['page'].'.html';
else
$page = 'index.html';
You can do something like:
http://yoursite.com/index.php?page=test.html or http://yoursite.com/index.php?page=test (and append .html later).
For instance:
<?php $page = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z]/','', $_GET['page']);
$path = 'pages/'.$page.'.html'
if (file_exists($path)){ $output = file_get_contents($path); }
else { header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
$output = file_get_contents('pages/404.html'); }
?>
(Putting the rest of your file after the php, for the 404 header to work.)
Then, you also can use apache rewrites:
Rewrite Engine On
Rewrite Rule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ index.php?page=$1
Then use links like http://mysite.com/page_name
Then in the main div:
<?php echo $output; ?>