On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:14:01 +0100, Geoff Berrow
<bl@ckdog.co.uk.the.cat> wrote:
I noticed that Message-ID: <c5********************************@4ax.com>
from the wonderer contained the following:
Thanks Geoff. I'm not sure though if I understand this.
I currently have the header information, including title, in
PageStart.php.
Are you saying to incorporate the header function into the
PageStart.php code, or make the function a separate file, or put the
function into any php file that would need it? Should I remove the
title declaration from PageStart.php altogether?
I'm not sure how this would work:
First of all let me apologise. The function cannot be called header()
because that already exists in PHP (duh!) So call it head()
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
$title="My new Page";
header($title);
?>
or for the default
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
header($title);
Since PageStart.php already has <title> in it, wouldn't the subsequent
header($title) function either be ignored or cause a problem?
The variable $title is what is passed to the function. If it isn't set
then the default title is used. Here is my (corrected) code:
PageStart.php (it's actually the full page here, but could just be the
header naturally)
<?php
function head($title){
if(!$title){
$title="Default page title";
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php print $title; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
hello world
</body>
</html>
<?php } ?>
And pages that use it
p1.php
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
head("My new Page");
?>
p2.php
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
head($title);
?>
p3.php
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
$title="something";
head($title);
?>
It all works. I even tried
p4.php
<?require_once('PageStart.php');
$title="something";
head(5+7/3);
?>
:-)
See:
www.ckdog.co.uk/php/test
Okay, I reread your post and I went to the /php/test url above. So I
see that it works. But in trying to implement it, I'm failing. Maybe
if I could see the source of your pX.php and PageStart.php files?
Here is the start of my PageStart.php file (note that I changed the
name of your function head() to make_title() just so as not to confuse
the function head() with the <head> tag):
<?php
function make_title($title)
{
if(!$title)
{
$title="Page Default Title";
}
?>
<?php } ?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php print $title; ?></title>
<?require_once('styles/BlueAndGold.css')?>
</head>
Now here is the first line of my index.php page:
<?require_once('PageStart1017.php', $title='My Web Site: Main
Page')?>
That line triggers a parse error. Since PageStart.php is included in
virtually every page on the web site, I don't know how to "let it
know" what page title is being used.
I appreciate your help on this. I am a php novice (obviously!) and
much of what I do consists of copying stuff I understand, then
gradually modifying it to suit my needs, with frequent visits to
php.net to check what I'm doing.
