PHP header - adding different metatags per page

Question

I have a commom php header. I would like to add page specific META.

Currently my header looks like this.

<?php include ('includes/pageheader.php'); ?>

It currently uses a long if statemment

<?php $page =  $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; 
if($page == "/") {
  ?>
<!-- Metadata for home -->
?>

I was wondering if there was a better way or a class to be able to build up page specific meta to this header.

If each of your routes/URI's is stored in a database, you can look up each pages metadata based on the request. — Lucas Krupinski
– Lucas Krupinski, Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 13:22
if you can create header files like homeheader.php , mypage1.php, my page2.php, & if you can identify the exact page, you can use : <?php include ('includes/'.$page.'.php'); ?> you can avoid lots of if else statements — Shan
– Shan, Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 13:52

Shylor · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-14 13:57:53Z

2

In your header, you could do something like this.

<?php if(isset($header)): ?>
  <?php foreach($header as $tag): ?>
    <?= $tag ?>
  <?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>

Then above your include, you could add.

<?php
$header[] = '<meta charset="UTF-8">';
$header[] = '<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">';
$header[] = '<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript">';
$header[] = '<meta name="author" content="John Doe">';
$header[] = '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">';
include ('includes/pageheader.php');
?>

answered Mar 14, 2017 at 13:57

Shylor

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