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PHP

Posted by Ryan Scharfer
Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points

purpose of php in title tag?

Hello, Beginner question here : What is the advantage of using php in a title tag. I am doing the beginner php course and our title tag looks like this : <title><?php echo "Shirts 4 Mike"; ?></title> I understand using php for the date because a date is dynamic. But if you are defining the title, why do it with php -- it would never change .... Thanks for any help.. Ryan

4 Answers

Erik Montes
Erik Montes
3,717 Points

Well, in case you want to have dynamic page titles! Which is something you might want at some point to give each page an unique title such as Home, Settings, etc. But you don't have to have a dynamic title, if that's the case then you can just have good ol' text. Titles that depict the content of the page can result in good SEO (http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag) too, so that might be another benefit.

Erik Nemesis
Erik Nemesis
13,356 Points
Erik Nemesis
Erik Nemesis
13,356 Points

Because later on it will be replaced by <?php echo $title ?> where you have $title coming from the PHP code executed at the beginning of the file (also referred as the controller in the courses, though that's not correct)

Ryan Scharfer
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Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points
Ryan Scharfer
Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points

awesome. thanks guys. I just couldnt think of a reason before why you might want to change the title. I also didnt know "shirts 4 mike" would be replaced by "$title".

Ryan Scharfer
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Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points
Ryan Scharfer
Ryan Scharfer
Courses Plus Student 12,537 Points

that php code shold be surrounded by title tags..