placing category name in title of html page

5 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: October 20, 2009   (RSS)

By (Deleted User) - October 19, 2009

I have an articles section editor in CMS Builder. One of the fields in the data is category, so I can categorize the different articles and show those articles in a articlelist.php file for each category. Every works except one thing, I want to take the category name and place it in the title of the html page as well as on the articlelist.php page. Right now I just have the title and heading as "article" on the page, I want it to say "Category 1 articles", "Category 2 articles", etc. for each article list.

I've tried adding $record['title'] to the page but it does not work. I'm using the following codes in the header and body

---- header ----
<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php

require_once "/usr/home/sbsheep/public_html/cms/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($articlesRecords, $articlesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'articles',
'perPage' => '10',
));

?>
--------------------

-----Body----------

<h2 class="art-PostHeaderIcon-wrapper">
<span class="art-PostHeader"><center>Articles</center></span>
</h2>
<div class="art-PostContent">
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>

<a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['pagetitle'] ?></a><br/>

Thanks!

Re: [pchell] placing category name in title of html page

By Chris - October 20, 2009

Hi pchell,

I have a couple of questions for you:

How does your articlelist.php page know which category to display? Are you linking to "articlelist.php?category=2"?

Also, how is your Articles' "category" field configured? Do you have a hard-coded list of options or are you using "Get options from database (advanced)"?
All the best,
Chris

Re: [pchell] placing category name in title of html page

By Chris - October 20, 2009

Hi pchell,

How about this?

<title>Category <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_REQUEST['category']) ?> articles</title>

I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any more questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [chris] placing category name in title of html page

By (Deleted User) - October 20, 2009

Thanks again Chris,

That worked great!