How can i combine two <head> tags in an HTML document using php? - SEO

eldhose
July 6, 2019
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I have a PHP website, where it contains header.php in the includes. And I include this header.php in many other .php pages of my website. The header.php already contains <head> tags which are necessary for every page. And I want to add different meta title and description for each page separately.

So when the index.php loads it have two tags. And when I test the website with lighthouse Audit in Chrome. My SEO say no metadata found in the HTML document.

So please help me to combine those two tags.

Tags: html

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- Steve
- July 6, 2019 at 5:11 am
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Includes have access to all variables defined before the file is included.
So you can set variables for the title and description in the pages where you want to use differing ones and then access them in the included file. Roughly:
```
$title = "Some page title";
$desc = "Page description";
include 'header.php'
```
Then, in header.php
```
if($title) {
   // output this variable as the page title
} else {
   // no new title supplied so use the default one
}

// repeat for description
```
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- symlink
- July 6, 2019 at 5:14 am
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You either have to remove the <head> tags from header.php, or put variables in it and set them before you include it.

So, header.php would look like this:
```
<head>
    echo "<title>".$page_title."</title>";
    echo "<meta name='description' content='".$meta_desc."' >";

    ...existing code...
</head>
```
and an outer file would look like this (for example):
```
$page_title = "About Page";
$meta_desc = "A page explaining the purpose of the site";

include "header.php";
```
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How can i combine two <head> tags in an HTML document using php? – SEO

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