How to modify already echoed variable?

[Anti-Moronic]

Ok, here's what I'm trying to do. In Zend, you can modify a template title for a page within the actual template file even though the title has already been set.

 

So, say I have this in a common header file:

 

<?php echo $title; ?>

 

..but I then want to maybe change that within my main template page, say my 'about' page. How would I go about that?

 

Currently I do this:

 

include($commonheader);

include($content);

include($footer);

 

It's in the content where I want to be able to change the title in the header, should I need to. You can do this with Zend but it's beyond me how they do it.

 

Should note, the above is for simplicity sake. I am doing this using OOP methods.

 

Any help appreciated. Maybe ob_flush?

[shlumph]

Zend is a company, are you referring to Zend Framework? Are you using MVC?

[Anti-Moronic]

Well I'm certainly not referring to the company :-)

 

Yes, I'm using MVC. But I'm new to OOP and I'm having trouble on this point.

 

If I include the different template partials, then they are outputted immediately and I cannot modify any output variables in one of the partials which come after.

 

Like now, I can't modify the title in my content partial which is outputted in my header partial because it's been 'included' and so already output.

 

How should I go about this?

 

Thanks for the reply.

[shlumph]

In most of my setups, I have this in my layout.phtml:

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

 

And then, this in each of my view scripts:

<?php $this->title = 'Test Page Name'; ?>

 

Alternatively, I could set $this->view->title in my controllers and it'd still get outputted in my layout.phtml script. I'm almost sure partial view scripts would act the same, but I've never tried it.

[Anti-Moronic]

I see, thanks!

 

Now do you have any idea how I do this without Zend Framework?

 

To clarify my problem:

 

 

I have 2 files like this:

 

header>>

<?php echo $title; ?>

 

 

content>>

<?php $title = 'something else'; ?>

 

..and then the template:

 

include(header)

include(content)

 

====

 

That is very simplified and not at all like what I actually have. But it demonstrates my confusion. How do I put together a template whereby I can edit variables in the header, from within the content before output?

[shlumph]

Yeah, that won't work because you're initializing $title after you're trying to echo it out. That's why ZF made it possible to do what you want

[Anti-Moronic]

sorry - $title is already initialized. I am trying to modify it.

 

$title = 'default title';

 

include(header)

include(content)

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The cases where you have seen something like this WORK are those cases where there are not echo statements in the code. This works when you build/assemble/concatenate content and then echo that content at the end of the code on the page.