Defining the title of index pages

[PhilippeMartin]

Hi,

For content pages, the title tag in the html head (displayed in the window title, then) is made of the default title defined in the site settings, followed with the title of the story. Fine. However, I would have expected the title of index pages to be similarly made of the default title followed with the definition name, but it's not. Instead, only the default title is used (so all the index pages have the same title). I'm not sure if this is by design, or if it's a bug.

Assuming it's not a bug, is there a way to define or override some of the page's attributes from a page template? Maybe something like [#title:sometext] that would lead MonkeyCMS to set the page's title to "sometext" at rendering time, and therefore to use that when it replaces [page_title] in the Header template?

Cheers,

Philippe

[Colin]

Originally Posted by PhilippeMartin

Hi,

For content pages, the title tag in the html head (displayed in the window title, then) is made of the default title defined in the site settings, followed with the title of the story. Fine. However, I would have expected the title of index pages to be similarly made of the default title followed with the definition name, but it's not. Instead, only the default title is used (so all the index pages have the same title). I'm not sure if this is by design, or if it's a bug.

Assuming it's not a bug, is there a way to define or override some of the page's attributes from a page template? Maybe something like [#title:sometext] that would lead MonkeyCMS to set the page's title to "sometext" at rendering time, and therefore to use that when it replaces [page_title] in the Header template?

Cheers,

Philippe

At present it's a 'limitation' - but I'll see if there is a way I can implement your suggestion.

[PhilippeMartin]

Cool, thank you, Colin!

But before you look into implementing page directives (which would be great for various things), shouldn't the index name be used automatically, in this case?

[Colin]

Originally Posted by PhilippeMartin

Cool, thank you, Colin!

But before you look into implementing page directives (which would be great for various things), shouldn't the index name be used automatically, in this case?

This is likely to be a bit complicated. The issue is that pages are just templates and templates could be just building blocks. Likewise pages and templates could have multiple indexes so which would we pick.

My current thinking is we come up with a series of directives that override the default based on the page passed in. That should be workable so I'll see what I can do.

[PhilippeMartin]

Originally Posted by Colin

This is likely to be a bit complicated. The issue is that pages are just templates and templates could be just building blocks. Likewise pages and templates could have multiple indexes so which would we pick.

Ah yes, it didn't occur to me that one could call advancedindex several times from a single page page with a different index each time. Thanks for pointing that out.

Originally Posted by Colin

My current thinking is we come up with a series of directives that override the default based on the page passed in. That should be workable so I'll see what I can do.

Excellent, thank you!

[Colin]

Originally Posted by PhilippeMartin

Ah yes, it didn't occur to me that one could call advancedindex several times from a single page page with a different index each time. Thanks for pointing that out.


Excellent, thank you!

This is now ready to go in 1.3.6...

There is a new panel in the Skin Manager called 'Page Directives'

You supply the page name, the directive name and the value - and they'll override the site-wide values where appropriate.

For example you could set up the following:

Page Name: Default
Directive Name: page_title
Directive Value: This is a page directive

When the 'Default' page is displayed through the index.php script, the page_title value is overridden with 'This is a page directive'.

This works within correctly within the Skin hierarchy

[harvey]

Is there any way to override the page title for content pages?

[Colin]

Only using inline PHP in the header at present. I do it on some pages if you need some pointers.

[harvey]

Hi Colin!

I'd be very interested in seeing what you've been doing with that please!

[Colin]

Originally Posted by harvey

Hi Colin!

I'd be very interested in seeing what you've been doing with that please!

I basically override the page_title variable based on the definition id coming in.

<title>
%% if ($content[content_id]) **  if ($content[definition_id] == 2 || $content[definition_id] == 24) ** $content[page_title] = 'The Music Fix - '.$content[title].': '.$content[index_title].' Album Review';** else if ($content[definition_id] == 4) ** $content[page_title] = 'The Music Fix - '.$content[title].' Live Review';** else if ($content[definition_id] == 1) ** $content[page_title] = 'The Music Fix News - '.$content[title];**** addToOutput($content[page_title]);%%
</title>