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Revisited: Build Dynamic Pages With Search Engines in Mind - Page 2
by: Tim Perdue
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July 30, 2000
Removing the '?' and '&' from the URL string is a necessary first step, and it's
sufficient for many tasks. However, you can take it further by having context-sensitve
meta tags generated on the fly for every page.
When I build a site, I create a common library that is include on every page
throughout the site. You can call this file shared.inc or whatever.
Shared.inc sets up the database for me, and, more importantly, contains a function call
for the header and footer of the site.
<?php
//sample shared.inc file
//set up database connections
//any global variables for background
// colors or path names
function site_header($title) {
//contains common HTML
//for the header
}
function site_footer() {
//contains common html
//for the footer
}
?>
You would then call site_header() and pass in the page title for each page. That's exactly how
PHPBuilder works.
If you have an architecture like this, all of a sudden you can do some really slick
things in site_header(). Not only can I create the standard HTML header/title/body tags,
but I can create meta tags using the $title string.
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