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chrisburton

I'm trying to figure out a way not to use wordpress for this because of the bulk files.

Is there possibly a way to create page titles and body ID's dynamically as I create links in the navigation?

example:

As I create:

<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>

I get:
<title>John Doe</title>
<body id="home">

or

As I create:

<li><a href="/news/index.php">News</a></li>

I get:
<title>John Doe | News</title>
<body id="news">

Any ideas?

ChrisBull

Not sure if it will work but can't you use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; which should return everything after index, so if in the url you have www.site.com it will have a value of / or if the url is www.site.com/news/ it would return /news/ etc.
then do something like this,,,


$urlValue = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($urlValue == "/") {
$titleValue = "";
} else {
$urlValue = ltrim($urlValue = "/");
$urlValue = rtrim($urlValue = "/");
$titleValue = " | " . $urlValue;
}


//////Then in the Title Tag
<?php echo "John Doe" . $titleValue ?>

I can't see why it wouldn't work but i havn't tested it and it's probably not the best way to go about it....

chrisburton

I want to say Chris made a screencast which showcased this but I can't remember. Your code somewhat works but if I have a subdomain the title displays:

John Doe | /

chrisburton

Fixed it by changing out the = and adding commas for $urlValue.

$urlValue = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($urlValue == "/") {
$titleValue = "";
} else {
$urlValue = ltrim($urlValue, "/");
$urlValue = rtrim($urlValue, "/");
$titleValue = " | " . $urlValue;
}

Another question is how to get the title to be capitalized?

chrisburton

For anyone wanting to know:

<?php
$urlValue = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($urlValue == "/") {
$titleValue = "";
} else {
$urlValue = Ltrim($urlValue, "/");
$urlValue = Rtrim($urlValue, "/");
$titleValue = " | " . ucfirst($urlValue);
}
?>

Title

<title><?php echo "John Doe" . $titleValue ?></title>

Thanks @chrisbull for getting me started

whiteInkDesign

whats adding the dynamic body ID? I've been using
<body id="<?= basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ".php")?>">
to make the filename the body id.

chrisburton

@whiteinkdesign i'm confused by your response

whiteInkDesign

I figured it out, had a blonde moment.

chrisburton

@whiteinkdesign Oh, sorry. I thought you were questioning my code, not asking a question yourself.

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