Variable Page Headline Based On URL? other solution?

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So here is the deal.

Current site has 18 .html landing pages.
They are complete duplicates except for the fact that in 2 places on each page the city name changes and matches up with its url.
All of these page are receiving paid traffic.

So something like this (just example to illustrate):

page url: /dallas.html then on page "Proudly service Dallas"
page url: /tampa.html then on page "Proudly serving Tampa"

None of these pages are mobile responsive so have built a page in Clickfunnels to replace them. If your not familiar with clickfunnels its not really relevant to the issue since its just a template builder that allows script and html insertion.

what IS relevant though is that I want one page to replace all of these pages and simply dynamically change the city name on the page. Perhaps I can do this via the URL somehow/

What will likely happen is I will leave the .html pages on the server, gut them and put in an iframe to the clickfunnels page.

you can see I am basically trying to find a way to have one main page to split test and mod without having to do it on dozens of pages. I could clone the page a dozen times in clickfunnels but making changes later would be a pain in the rear and there are costs associated with more funnel pages.

any help appreciated.
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  • Sure; the easiest thing to do would be to use a single script, e.g., "offer.php?city=Tampa" You wouldn't even need an iframe, although you could still do so.
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    • appreciate the reply.
      just to be clear when I talk about the iframe I simply mean that since the .html pages already exist on the server with ads pointed to them that I will do an iframe to show the clickfunnels page.

      having said that if you have a minute can you expand a bit on what you mean?
      I don't work in code every day in my guy is sick lol
      but I can work it out...

      so what would the code look like on the page?
      Rather than actually have the word "Tampa" I would put?

      and if the exact same page is being iframed in many instances then how/why will it change the city name on the various html pages? since each has the exact same page iframed into it.

      hope I am making sense, I may need a coffee lol
  • Here you go. Due to a bug with WF, you'll have to replace the five %'s with $'s.

    The sanitizeHTML() function is there to protect your visitors against malicious code injection.

    Code:
    <?php
function sanitizeHTML( %target ) {
    if (is_null( %target ))
        return "";

    // eventually use filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS);
    // which should be equivalent, but see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65282
    return htmlentities( %target, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401, CHARSET );
}
?>

<html><body>
We're the best darn provider in <?= sanitizeHTML( %_GET[ "city" ] ) ?>, 
conveniently located right in the heart of <?= sanitizeHTML( %_GET[ "city" ] ) ?>!
</body></html>
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  • If you can host that site on server with PHP support and you can do some basic PHP that's quite easy if you try some sort of 'router' framework . which allow you do do such thing

    this is just mockup code - every framework works pretty similar ( i.e. silex, flightphp, slim , etc ) just pick any ...

    it works somehow like this :

    route('/dallas.html',function(){
    render('template.html', ['variable1'=>'Dallas','variable2'=>'Texas']);
    });

    route('/other.html',function(){
    render('template.html',['variable1'=>'Other']);
    });

    etc ..

    And in your template.html just use <?=$variable1?> in places you need to


    Other options include custom .htaccess but IMO small frameworks are much better to work with .
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