Unique Home Page Title / Meta data for Global header?

Hi all,

Im a PHP newbie, so this should be easy for you!

I have a script that uses a global header to create page title, meta and keywords:

<title>{if $pagetitle ne ""}{$pagetitle} - {/if}{$site_name}</title>

<meta name="description" content="{if $pagetitle ne ""}{$pagetitle} - {/if}{if $metadescription ne ""}{$metadescription}{/if}" />

<meta name="keywords" content="{if $pagetitle ne ""}{$pagetitle},{/if}{if $metakeywords ne ""}{$metakeywords},{/if}{$site_name}" />


So the homepage pagetitle is mysite.com

and all other pages titles show up as - Example page content - mysite.com


Is there a way i can make it so that the homepage title and the meta data are unique from all of the other pages?

Hope you understand me.

Thanks,

Scott

 

Can't you just set $pagetitle to what you want for those pages? :S

 

Would that not the apply the $pagetitle across all the other pages too?

From what i understand, the script i am using just references the header.tpl amongst other things to auto generate the pages, which is why i dont know where to add my unique page title.

I am a complete php newb, so i kinda need it in leymans terms

 

Heres and example, to get your started...

<?php
if(basename(__FILE__) == 'index.php'){
$meta = 'index.php meta...';
} else {
$meta = 'default meta for all other pages...';
}
?>

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