[PHP-DB] Re: Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within Netscape but works well within IE. From: Baroiller Pierre-Emmanuel (baroiller <email protected>)
Date: 10/16/02

your html is wrong...
you must write :

<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title ?> </title>
</head>
</html>

With the "head" tag, IE & Netscape will display your title correctly.

Regards.
P.E.
  "Darrian Walker" <dwalker <email protected>> a écrit dans le message de news: 01c274b9$2a10a1a0$d07623c7 <email protected>
  Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within Netscape but work
  well within IE.

  I have a single page consisting of inventory items to be sold. When an item
  is selected, it passes the product name to a DETAIL page as part of the
  TITLE tag for the DETAIL page. My problem is: Netscape does not like the
  SPACES between the text and refuses to display the DETAIL page.

  Initially, I thought there might be some way to parse the string and add the
  ascii code for SPACE, but I wasn't sure if I was on the right track. Does
  anyone have a proven solution to this problem?

  I thought the pseudo code might look something like this:
  <?php
  function
  parse_and_change(&grab_string){
      $string_holder=$grab_string;
      while stepping through the characters in this $string_holder
          { if character = " " (or some other representation)
              replace it with something that doesn't
              scare netscape or title tag
          }
  return $string_holder;
  }
  ?>

  <?php
  if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["itemname"])) {
      $title = (parse_and_change($HTTP_GET_VARS["itemname"] ));
      }else{
      $title="Generic Product Title";
  }
  ?>

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