Is this possible? (automated browser title)

[Mosqwik]

Hi,
Something that would be really useful for a new project im working on would be to have automated browser titles using some php code in the <title> tags.
The only way I can think of doing this is by having the php code read the url im using for navigation, e.g. /windows/atari2600/ and use that data, edit it and have it display as 'Windows > Atari 2600'
Has this kind of thing been done before? are there any other common ways of doing this? Also are there any tutorials around?
Thanks!

[John]

Assuming you have a file located in the www/windows/atari2600 directory, and the URL is http://www.domain.com/windows/atari2600 here is a possible solution:

PHP Code:

$value = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] 


$value will be:

/windows/atari2600

Then you can explode the string at the slash:

PHP Code:

$dir = explode("/", $value) 


$dir[0] = windows
$dir[1] = atari2600

Then a simple:

PHP Code:

<title><?php echo $dir[0], "<", $dir[1]; ?></title>

Should do the trick. Of course you can perform string manipulations on $dir[0] and $dir[1] to capitalize the "w" and the "a" but thats a small detail in the big pitcure.

[fallstoofast]

You could automate that even more and do this

PHP Code:

<?php
$path = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$dir = explode("/",$path);
$title = "";

$z = 0;
while($z < (count($dir) - 1)){
   if($z == (count($dir) -1)){ // you don't want a > on the last dir
      $title .= $dir[$z];
   }
   else{
     $title .= $dir[$z]." > ";
   }
}
?>

<title><?=$title;?></title>

That way you could have 10 paths and it'd still work...

[Lop]

This may work fine for the page navigation but it is not a very good SEO title. You should think about adding more content.