Trying to set Webpage Title dynamically

[TomTees]

I am trying to set the HTML Page Title dynamically, but this code from my book doesn't work...

 

			<title>
			<?php
				// Dynamically set Page Title.
				if (isset($page_title)){
					echo $page_title;
				} else {
					// Default Page Title.
					echo 'Knowledge is Power: And It Pays To Know';
				}
			?>
		</title>

 

What is wrong with it?

 

(All I see is the code in the Webpage/Window Title...)

 

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[BLaZuRE]

Does your webpage end in .php?  i.e. index.php, page.php, etc.?

 

Is the PHP engine supplied to you?  Are you using a 'free webhosting' website?  If so, what company?

 

Your code is correct, though I'm not a fan of your formatting (then again we each have our own style).

[TomTees]

Does your webpage end in .php?  i.e. index.php, page.php, etc.?

 

Is the PHP engine supplied to you?  Are you using a 'free webhosting' website?  If so, what company?

 

Your code is correct, though I'm not a fan of your formatting (then again we each have our own style).

 

I am using NetBeans on my laptop.

 

The author said to call the page "header.html"

 

What is wrong with my formatting?

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[MrXHellboy]

PHP needs the php extension to work.

[Pikachu2000]

It either needs a file extension of .php, or you need to configure your webserver to have the php interpreter parse files with a .html extension (which doesn't happen by default).

[BLaZuRE]

Well, there's your problem.  You need a .php page in order for the php engine to recognize it's a page to be rendered by PHP.  Change the extension from .html to .php and you'll see it in the title.

 

Maybe your author was/is going to have the header as an include?  i.e. have an index.php page and inside that page do

include('header.php');

or

include_once('header.php');

[TomTees]

Well, there's your problem.  You need a .php page in order for the php engine to recognize it's a page to be rendered by PHP.  Change the extension from .html to .php and you'll see it in the title.

 

Maybe your author was/is going to have the header as an include?  i.e. have an index.php page and inside that page do

include('header.php');

or

include_once('header.php');

 

Yeah, I figured that out while you guys were responding.  I placed the code in test.php and it ran/looks fine.

 

The author is indeed making me create a header.html file that will ultimately be included in a php file but I'm not that far in my book yet! 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

TomTees

 

P.S.  Feel free to answer this post if you know the answer...

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/php-coding-help/help-setting-up-path-constants/