html <title> and php

cremo

cremo

cremo

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how's it going folks.

i've been given a task to cleaning up a website that was written about 3-4 years ago.

the site structure looks like this.

Code: 
html
+----about
           +----history
                      +----index.php (site.com/about/history/)
           +----index.php (site.com/about/)
+----contact
           +----index.php (site.com/contact/)
+----downloads
           +----index.php (site.com/downloads/)

etc.etc.

now each folder (about, history etc.) has the exact same html code at the top for example.

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  	<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
	  <?php include("../../i/metas.php"); ?>
	  <title>Development Education Explored | DevelopmentEducation.ie</title>	
	 		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../c/titles.css" media="screen" />
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../c/all.css" media="screen"/>
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../c/other.css" media="screen" />
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../j/niftyCorners.css" media="screen" />
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../c/print_all.css" media="print"/>
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../c/print_other.css" media="print" />
	  	
	  	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../j/swfobject.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="../../j/niftycube.js"></script>
	    <script type="text/javascript">
	    window.onload=function(){
	    	Nifty("div.green","normal");
	    	Nifty("div.dkgrey","normal");
	    	Nifty("div.ltgrey","normal");
	    }
	    </script>
		
	</head>
	
	<body>
			<a name="top"></a>
				<div id="cnt">
				
				
				
				
						 <div id="top"><?php include("{$pa}i/logo.php"); ?>
									
						 
						 
								<div id="topmenu">
    								<ul>
    										<li class="on"><a href="../../about/">About</a></li>
												<li><a href="../../partners/">Partners</a></li>
												<li><a href="../../glossary/">Glossary</a></li>
												<li><a href="../../contact/">Contact</a></li>
												<li><a href="http://www.developmenteducation.ie/sitemap">Site Map</a></li>
                    </ul>
								<?php include("{$pa}i/googlesearch.php"); ?>
								</div>
								<div id="menu">
										 
									<ul>
<li class="list1"><a id="item1" href="../../" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li class="list2"><a id="item2" href="../../issues/" title="Issues and Topics">Issues &amp; Topics</a></li>
<li class="list3"><a id="item3" href="../../resources/" title="Links and Resources">Links &amp; Resources</a></li>
<li class="list4"><a id="item4" href="../../galleries/" title="Cartoons and Photos">Cartoons &amp; Photos</a></li>
<li class="list5"><a id="item5" href="../../action/" title="Taking Action">Taking Action</a></li>
<li class="list6"><a id="item6" href="../../book/" title="80:20 The Book">80:20 The Book</a></li>
<li class="list7"><a id="item7" href="../../teachers/" title="Teachers and Educators">Teachers &amp; Educators</a></li>
<li class="list8"><a id="item8" href="../../shop/" title="Shop">Shop</a></li>
                    				</ul>
								
								</div>
						 </div>


i want to be able to create a header.php file that includes all this html code, but takes the directory name of that folder and uses that directory name inside the title tag of the html.
 
PHP: 
<title><?php echo dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]); ?></title>

edit: or maybe this would look a little nicer (untested - might be some typos :p)

PHP: 
<title>yoursite.com | <?php echo str_replace('/',' | ',ucfirst(dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]))); ?></title>

should give...

yoursite.com | About | History
 
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thanks that works if put into every index.php file, but i want to do is have something like this.


header.php
PHP: 
<? /* ================================================= */
//echo  $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$c = 0; $pa = "";
$filename = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); 
$filename2 = "";

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  	<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
	  <? include("i/metas.php"); ?>
	  <title>site.com  <?php echo str_replace('/',' | ',ucfirst(dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]))); ?></title>
			
	  		
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c/all.css" />
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c/home.css" />
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c/titles.css" />
	  	
	  	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="j/niftyCorners.css"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.developmenteducation.ie/j/swfobject.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="j/niftycube.js"></script>
	    <script type="text/javascript">
	    window.onload=function(){
	    	Nifty("h5","normal");
	    }
	    </script>
			
			
			
			
			   <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
				<!--
				// this function opens a new window each time it is invoked
				function imageWindow(image_path, winWidth, winHeight, copyright_owner, title)
				{  
				    OpenWindow=window.open("", title,"width=" + winWidth + ",height=" + winHeight + "toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,menubar=no");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<html><title>" + title + "<\/title>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<body style='margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #666;'>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<img src='" + image_path + "'>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<center>Copyright &copy; " + copyright_owner + "</center>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<\/BODY>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<\/HTML>");
				    
					OpenWindow.document.close();
					// self.name="main"
				}
				function animWindow()
				{  
				    OpenWindow=window.open("", "","width=450,height=380,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,menubar=no");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<html><title>DevelopmentEducation.ie - 100 People Animation<\/title>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<body style='margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #666;'>");
						OpenWindow.document.write("<OBJECT classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0' WIDTH='438' HEIGHT='350' id='final' ALIGN=''><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE='final.swf'> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF><EMBED src='final.swf' quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  WIDTH='438' HEIGHT='350' NAME='final' ALIGN='' TYPE='application/x-shockwave-flash' PLUGINSPAGE='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'></EMBED></OBJECT>"); 
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<\/body>");
				    OpenWindow.document.write("<\/html>");
				    
					OpenWindow.document.close();
					// self.name="main"
				}
				//-->
				</script>
			
			
			
			
			
		
	</head>
	
	<body id="home">
	
				<div id="cnt">
						 <div id="top">
								<?php include("i/logo.php"); ?>
								<div id="topmenu">
    								<ul>
    										<li><a href="about/">About</a></li>
												<li><a href="partners/">Partners</a></li>
												<li><a href="glossary/">Glossary</a></li>
												<li><a href="contact/">Contact</a></li>
												<li><a href="http://www.developmenteducation.ie/sitemap">Site Map</a></li>
                    </ul>
					<?php include("{$pa}i/googlesearch.php"); ?>
								
								</div>
								<div id="menu">
										 
									<ul>
<li class="list1On"><a id="item1On" href="./" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li class="list2"><a id="item2" href="issues/" title="Issues and Topics">Issues &amp; Topics</a></li>
<li class="list3"><a id="item3" href="resources/" title="Links and Resources">Links &amp; Resources</a></li>
<li class="list4"><a id="item4" href="galleries/" title="Cartoons and Photos">Cartoons &amp; Photos</a></li>
<li class="list5"><a id="item5" href="action/" title="Taking Action">Taking Action</a></li>
<li class="list6"><a id="item6" href="book/" title="80:20 The Book">80:20 The Book</a></li>
<li class="list7"><a id="item7" href="teachers/" title="Teachers and Educators">Teachers &amp; Educators</a></li>
<li class="list8"><a id="item8" href="shop/" title="Shop">Shop</a></li>
                    				</ul>
								
								</div>
						 </div>

so that no matter where you are in the directory tree the title will look like this

site.com | about | history
site.com | home
site.com | downloads

and at the top of every index.php page in every directory i just do this.

PHP: 
include ('header.php');
 
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aye but the header.php file the links to css files are all screwed as it doesn't keep the paths :(
 
yeh but if they'll have to be different for every page.

all css is in a folder called c.

so for about/history to get at it it's ../../c/style.css
but for about/ to get at it it's ../c/style.css

is there's something gapingly obvious that i'm missing here, i'm really rusty on web programming.
 
cremo said:
yeh but if they'll have to be different for every page.

all css is in a folder called c.

so for about/history to get at it it's ../../c/style.css
but for about/ to get at it it's ../c/style.css

is there's something gapingly obvious that i'm missing here, i'm really rusty on web programming.
Click to expand...

Using root-relative links you can create a link relative to the website root no matter where you are within the site's structure.

Using marc2003's code will work.

http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/linking.php
 
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