Question

I need some help in generating dynamic web Title pages, based on what action the user has taken. The code below is what I include at the top of all pages… $title changes according to the page I’m calling it from.

  <?php
      $title = "Biographies of Company Executives";
      require('includes/header.php');
  ?>

But, somewhere down the page, I’m running a DB query to get the actual position of the Company Executive that the user has clicked to view

Example of Query I’m running

 $bios = mysql_query( "SELECT *
                       FROM  `comp_bios`
                       WHERE `comp_bios_id` =  '{$id}'") or die(mysql_error());
                       $row = mysql_fetch_array($bios);

From the above query

                   $row[comp_bios_position]

is available to the page for usage.
How can I make $row[comp_bios_position] available to $title in the head section of my HTML

Thank you.

I saw this SO question, before asking mine. It didn’t answer the my question as I would have loved.

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UPDATE: I added this to the header.php script, and still not working. No error is showing on the screen.

<title>
      <?php if(isset($row['comp_bios_position'])) {
               $title = $row['comp_bios_position'];} 
               echo $title; 
      ?>
</title>

Answer 1

My answer in the comment is still valid, put the select part above the require:

<?php
      //Do all the selects:
      $bios = mysql_query( "SELECT *
                   FROM  `comp_bios`
                   WHERE `comp_bios_id` =  '{$id}'") or die(mysql_error());
                   $row = mysql_fetch_array($bios);

      //Use this how ever you want: $row[comp_bios_position]
      $title = "Biographies of Company Executives : " . $row[comp_bios_position];
      require('includes/header.php');
?>

And you will have the $title in the header.php