Page Title for Custom Contact Page

[thespursfan]

I am trying to make a custom contact form page.
I have the header and footer included in a page called contact.php which resides in the main root directroy (along with application.php, index.php etc.).
It works, and the header and footer with the right links show up, and it picks up the css file fine.

The only thing that doesn't work is the title loads up as: <%title%>.

I tried adding $title = $titles["2016"]; to the code in contact.php, and adding the actual value of the title in titles.inc.php, but that didn't work.

Any ideas on how to add a custom title to a custom page?

[inspireme]

hi, this is what i use and it works fine. Also allows user tracking from the admin panel.

<?php
//page cache AND session handling

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

//-----------
$cache_dir = '../cache/';
$cache_file = 'faqUserSearching_';
$cache_param = $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];

$cache_time_arr = explode(';',implode(file('../page_caching.txt'),""));
$cache_time = $cache_time_arr[0];
$cache_time = $cache_time * 60;

$cache_file = $cache_dir.$cache_file.$cache_param.session_id()." .html";
// Get from the cache
if(file_exists($cache_file) && time() - $cache_time < filemtime($cache_file)) {
session_start();
$_SESSION['indexu_session_username'] = $COOKIE_USERNAME;
$_SESSION['indexu_session_location'] = "FAQ - User Searching";
$_SESSION['indexu_session_ip'] = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
echo "<!-- this is cache page -->\n";
include($cache_file);
exit;
}
else {
include("../application.php");
session_start();
if(isset($COOKIE_USERNAME))
$_SESSION['indexu_session_username'] = $COOKIE_USERNAME;
$_SESSION['indexu_session_location'] = "FAQ - User Searching";
$_SESSION['indexu_session_ip'] = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
}

ob_start();



// start page output
$title = "FAQ - User Searching";
DisplayTemplate("http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/themes/default/detail_header.html" ,"\$title,\$cat");
?>
<!-- content --->

I Put the page content here....


And then output the footer here,,,

<?
include("http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/themes/default/footer.html");
?>

[thespursfan]

BEAUTIFUL!
The only thing that was tricky for me, was changing the paths in front of application.php, page_caching.txt, and cache/.

I also changed the location to the header and footer file, and then the name of the title, session_location, and obviously $title.

So, if anyone needs to use this, change those.

Other than that, great workaround inspireme!
Thanks!

[inspireme]

ahh yes, the paths only work for my suituation (indexU in a folder inside public_html) just drop the ../ bit on each path. obviously the header and footer path only works on my site (also i use a special header with description tags so the file name is different)

The names and titles change as you need. glad you got it working