[support] page titles for views?

sander-martijn lists at severeddreams.com
Mon Oct 1 23:21:28 UTC 2007


Thanks - that's a good idea.  I'll try it out and let you know what happens.

Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
> I don't know if this would work, as I haven't tried this yet, so, take 
> this for what it's worth.
> 
> Which ain't much...
> 
> How about a function in template.php that would grab a title generated 
> from some php in the view header?
> 
> This way, it would Just Work in any view, and you wouldn't need to 
> hardcode anything --
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
> sander-martijn wrote:
>> Anyone have an idea how to do this? I still haven't figured it out.
>>
>> thanks
>> .sander
>>
>> sander-martijn wrote:
>>   
>>> Does anyone know a way to customize the page title (in the title tag) 
>>> for a view?  I asked about this for pages earlier and Bill suggested
>>> the page title module which works great - but there are two top level 
>>> pages that are views that I need to customize the titles for and the 
>>> page title module doesn't work with views.  Since it's only two pages 
>>> and the title isn't likely to change or at least not often I'm even 
>>> willing to hard code it into template.php. what i tried so far is to add 
>>> the following function to _phptemplate_variables:
>>>
>>> if($vars['node']->nid == '12'){
>>>   $vars['head_title'] = "TEST";
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> I verified (through print statements) that the statement gets triggered 
>>> on the proper page and that $vars['head_title'] is printing the current 
>>> title.  Furthermore a similar function is how the page title module does 
>>> it.  Yet when I print out the variable immediately after the function it 
>>> still stays what it was.  Full with print statements and output:
>>>
>>> print($vars['head_title']); // prints: Photo Gallery | Timberpeg
>>> if($vars['node']->nid == '12'){
>>>   print(" changing to test "); // prints: changing to test - indicates 
>>> it gets triggered
>>>   $vars['head_title'] = "TEST";
>>> }
>>> print($vars['head_title']); // prints: Photo Gallery | Timberpeg
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> .sander
>>>     
> 
> 


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