Setting Page Titles When Using Global Headers in PHP - php

Question

I was wondering how you guys set your page titles while you use global headers. I would like to be able to change my page title from page to page... for example, "Site Name : News Archives". Would the best way be to use JavaScript? If I did this with JS, would the new changes take effect in search engine results? Just wanted to get some input on this thought.
<?php
include('header.php');
switch($_GET['p']){
case "news":
include('news.php');
break;
default:
include('indexBody.php');
}
include('footer.php');
?>

Answer 1

You can define a variable BEFORE including the header.
This variable can be used then in header.php.
<?php
$pagetitle = "Site Name : News Archives";
include('header.php');
...
?>

Answer 2

If your looking to go down this road, perhaps try something like the following:
Store your variables in a data array and then pass them to your header/footer/content views before echo'ing out.
$data['title'] will be seen by your header and footer ect as $title
<?php
$page = (!empty($_GET['p'])?$_GET['p']:'index');
$data = array();
switch($page){
case "news":
$view = 'news.php';
$data['title'] = 'Site Name : News Archives';
break;
default:
$view = 'indexBody.php';
$data['title'] = 'Site Name : Home';
break;
}
echo load_view('header.php',$data);
echo load_view($view,$data);
echo load_view('footer.php',$data);
function load_view($path,$data) {
if (file_exists($path) === false){
return 'View not found: '.$path;
}
extract($data);
ob_start();
require($path);
$out = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $out;
}
?>