Hide page title text box based on content type

Ok this patch is for 4.7.x but since my changes are in regards to this topic I am posting here. As an aside, this patch also includes a function added to the API section to be able to set a node's page title from another module. Right now you can only get the page title.

Feel free to use or discard bits of the patch as needed.

The previous title of this issue didn’t do the request justice. It’s actually a quite useful feature request.

The above patch would disable all content-types by default. But the default should be that all content-types are enabled. Also, “Included content types” should really be “Disable page_title for the following content types”

This is actually on my "to do" list. I have a basic dev version on my dev box. Once I got it working properly, it will get commited into the dev branch. Once that's confirmed ok I'll promote it to the final release.

Interesting... so per-content-type we can provide 3 options:
1) Do nothing. Just let Drupal handle it in the default way.
2) Don't allow the user to override the actual page title itself, but control the page title using the token layout in the configuration.
3) Allow the user to override the page title separately to the node title + apply that page title using the tokens in the configuration.

That could be done nicely using 3 horizontally laid out radio buttons per content type.

Thoughts?

I'm moving this to a 5.x feature as it will be easier to backport it to 4.7 once 5.x is done.

My previous comments are in need of revision.

Nicholas, we should eliminate the #1 option on your list. I don’t think anyone would really need to actually disable page_title per content; they just want to hide the Page title text box to streamline the edit/add page for certain node types.

So the settings page should have a fieldset of checkboxes like this:

Hide “Page title” option when adding/editing the following content types:
 [ ] Image
 [ ] Page
 [ ] Story

So for content types that have been checked we will use the token configuration on the page_title settings administration.

For me, this would eliminate the conversation I have with clients: “Just ignore the Page title text box when you add an Image.” :-)

That would work - however the page title for an image will still be "calculated" based on the token settings. Will there ever be a case where this is undersirable (eg if a module provides a type which controls its own title?)

I think there is potentially a case where no p_t involvement is needed

When? If a user installs page_title they want to override Drupal's default “node title | site name” page title. When would reverting to the standard for only certain content types would be useful?

Instead of enabling/disabling by content type, maybe we need page title patterns for each content type.

There is now a working version of this feature in HEAD. It will be included in the forthcoming 5.x-2.0 version of Page title.

The new feature follows the functionality described in comment #6 above. I believe that the extra options described in comment #8 will be mitigated once “Allow different settings for each content type” (issue #158110) is completed.

Those itching to see this can now download 5.x-2.x-dev: http://drupal.org/node/164405