Question

page.php:

<?php
include("header.php");
$title = "TITLE";
?>

header.php:

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

I want my title to be set after including the header file. Is it possible to do this?

Answer 1

expanding on Dainis Abols answer, and your question on output handling,

consider the following:

your header.php has the title tag set to <title>%TITLE%</title>;
the “%” are important since hardly anyone types %TITLE% so u can use that for str_replace() later.

then, you can use output buffer like so

<?php
    ob_start();
    include("header.php");
    $buffer=ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();

    $buffer=str_replace("%TITLE%","NEW TITLE",$buffer);
    echo $buffer;
?>

and that should do it.

EDIT

I believe Guy’s idea works better since it gives you a default if you need it, IE:

• The title is now <title>Backup Title</title>
• Code is now:

<?php
    ob_start();
    include("header.php");
    $buffer=ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();

    $title = "page title";
    $buffer = preg_replace('/(<title>)(.*?)(<\/title>)/i', '$1' . $title . '$3', $buffer);

    echo $buffer;
?>