Here is a customization which I though should be easy but I can't seem to figure it out... too many late nights or something I guess.

I am going to the What's New page on my site's links directory at http://www.fattymattybrewing.com/directory/new.html and would like to add a page title in the html header for the What's New page. Where do I find the new.php file that creates this SEF to be file?

Thanks

You mean the <title> tag ?

If I recall correctly you use the dynamic title function so you get category names in your titles, so the following code will look a little different, but I think you'll get the idea...


Near the top of the directory file you should see something like this..

Code:

if ($url_array[1] == "new.html"){$show="new";} if ($url_array[1] == "popular.html"){$show="pop";} if ($url_array[1] == "cool.html"){$show="cool";} if ($url_array[1] == "add.html"){$show="add";} if ($url_array[1] == "about.html"){$show="about";} if ($url_array[1] == "review.html"){$show="review";} if ($url_array[1] == "update.html"){$show="update";} if ($url_array[1] == "owner.html"){$show="owner";} if ($url_array[1] == "review_add.html"){$show="review_add";}

You can tweak this a bit so you'll have unique titles for these pages as well..

Code:

if ($url_array[1] == "new.html"){$show="new"; $addtitle=' The latest and greatest';}

note the preceding space in the custom page title above. You could do something similar for each of the page types, just assign a different string to the $addtitle variable Then further down where you find the <title> tag, just add echo $addtitle;

very cool, I will try this out and let you know how it flies.

ok, I understand how to add this:

Code:

if ($url_array[1] == "new.html"){$show="new"; $addtitle=' The latest and greatest';}

but when it comes to:

QUOTE:
just assign a different string to the $addtitle variable Then further down where you find the <title> tag, just add echo $addtitle;

it get a lot confusing... I have attached my directory file so you can see exactly what I am dealing with... my <title> tag is a bit tricky because it has some code in there to make the page title dynamic depending on the link category that the user is browsing. Any ideas on how I should write the code for the "What's New" page's <title> tag?

Hrm. ok part of teh problem is this line

if(!isset($term) and !isset($show)){

so if "$show" is set, which it is on the new.html page, then none of your title and meta tag code is ran.

Getting rid of the !isset($show) part, you wind up with this ...

Code:

<?php if(!isset($term)){ if(!isset($PID)){ ?> <title>Fatty Matty Brewing<?php echo $addtitle;?></title>

And how you've defined $addtitle is fine, just be sure to esccape any apostrophes ..

Code:

if ($url_array[1] == "new.html"){$show="new"; $addtitle=' Newest Beer & Homebrewing Links added to Fatty Matty Brewing';} if ($url_array[1] == "astore.html"){$show="astore"; $addtitle = 'gettin\' the good stuff';} if ($url_array[1] == "recipes.html"){$show="recipes"; $addtitle='Here\'s another apostophe';}

Wow that worked so well, now my site is fully SEF! not only do I have dynamic page titles on the categories but also dynamic page titles for the "NEW" "TOP" "ABOUT" and other pages that did not have page titles before. look out Google PR here I come!

Thanks so much and anyone else interested in this customization please chime in and ask questions...