PHP Include Header... But Different <title></title>?

Greetings!

On my websites I use the same header for each page by

<?php include"includes/header.php";?>

PHP:

But I really need to SEO by having different titles...

Do you know how I can do this?

I'll be forever grateful, as this will save me a lot of time having seperate headers for each page!

Regards,

Scott.

 

Yes you can do it, but one would need to look at complete code...

One solution would be to set $title = "Custom Page Title"; before including header file.

In the header you could then have ....<title>$title</title>...

Like i said, it mostly depends on what you already have, how it is programmed, then you modify it accordingly.

 

I'm not too familiar with PHP coding.

My websites are all in HTML, the only PHP coding I use are includes and SQL queries.

How would I go about config'ing the PHP to include $title?

Would it be something like:

<?php
$title = "";
?>

 

I've just found another thread on the same topic: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=505947

I'm going to give this a try.

 

On every page, existing header include code you could replace with:

<?php
$title = "Page1 Title";
include"includes/header.php";
?>

Code (markup):

In your header.php, if you have something like this: <title>Old Same Title</title> you replace it with:

<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>

Code (markup):

Even better would be:

<title><?php if (isset($title)) echo $title; else echo "Old Same Title"; ?></title>

Code (markup):

That way for the pages where you still didn't get to set the custom title, it would display the "standard" one.
Whole code is not pretty, but it's probably the way you already have it and it would work

 

That worked.

Anyone else looking for a solution to this problem. It's simple.

Start your page with:

And then your title tags should be as followed:

Same for other things such as:

 

Thanks Hogan_h.

I did look for a similar thread but couldn't find one.

Thanks a lot!

Scott.

 

You are wellcome
I would still suggest using:

<title><?php if (isset($title)) echo $title; else echo "Old Same Title"; ?></title>

Code (markup):

especially if you have many pages and can't change them all at once, then you could modify them one by one without breaking the title name on any page.

 

So you mean if I use that code...

I leave this blank:

<?php
$title = "";
include"includes/header.php";
?>

It will echo "same old header".

That's even better!

Thanks dude.

 

Got it...

That worked thanks a lot!

+REP

Scott.

 

In that case no, it would only work if there is no $title at all before including the header.php

If you set $title to anything else, even if it's "" (empty string) then it will output that and not the "standard title".

 

I see that you found a solution.

I actually use a different solution to accomplish the same thing if interested.

My header is in a function.

function ShowHeader($Title,$MetaDesc){
$DefTitle = "Show me when title is blank";
$DefMetaDesc = "Show me when Meta Desc is blank";
if($Title=="")$Title=$DefTitle;
if($MetaDesc=="")$MetaDesc=$DefMetaDesc;
//header stuff goes here
}

PHP:

 

use a plugin based template class. Including headers and footers is very noobish.

 

I would have to disagree with the noobish statement.

Just because people subscribe to the KISS principle doesn't mean they are noobs.

Plugin based templates will work just fine, but for most projects it is simply over kill.