Question

I want to print the same page’s name differently based on a certain variable.

Here is a corresponding code.

$metaTitle ="'if($variable=='input'){ title#1 }else {  title#2 };'";

And the produced meta title is lately used in the same file to create the page title (<title></title>)

But it keeps producing the title like

if($variable=='input'){ title#1 }else {  title#2 };

(the whole if statement as a whole. It does not recognize the if statement. It considers the statement as a plain text.)

What did I do wrong in the sentence??

Answer 1

Because you just assign $metaTitle a STRING “‘if($variable==’input’){ title#1 }else { title#2 };'” and it’s not a runable statement

you should do like this

if ($variable=='input') {
    $metaTitle = "title#1";
} else {
    $metaTitle = "title#2";
}

or simply use Ternary Operator