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David G
David G

Reputation: 337

HTML read metadata from file

I have a PHP based website and I want to make the code generic by reading the 'keywords' and 'description' metadata from a site specific include file ('META.TXT' say).

I have looked at the < link...> tag but I can't see how to use it to just include text.

I know how to read html content in using Javascript but I don't think that would work for header data.

<header>
<?php 
include_once("meta.php");
?>
</header>

I also tried:

<header>
<link rel="???" type="text/css" href="META.TXT">
</header>

What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 667

Answers (1)

faintsignal
faintsignal

Reputation: 1836

You had the right idea with your first example. include_once (as well as include, require, require_once) can be used to non-PHP files as well. Basically, any portion of your included file's content that is not wrapped in PHP tags (<?php ?>) will be sent to output.

So if your meta tags are in a file called META.TXT (in the same or an accessible path) then they can be included in your header as follows:

<header>
<?php 
include_once("META.TXT");
?>
</header>

BTW, if your meta.php file had equivalent echo statements in it, that should have worked as in your first example also. Perhaps you forgot the <?php tag in that file.

Upvotes: 2

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