How to change the title of the 'View' local task?

Posted by ethanw on May 6, 2007 at 11:36pm

I'm trying to change the title of the 'View' tab to the name of the current page, using the sympal theme. I've tried to do this by setting a global with the new string value in _phptemplate_variables "page" case statement, but no dice: dumps of $GLOBALS show the new vars no where.

Does anyone have an idea how to set the title of a local task item to some property of the node being viewed?

Thanks,

Ethan

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2 options

Posted by pwolanin on May 7, 2007 at 1:01am

One option is to use the locale module: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/locale

Another option - you could intervene by overriding this theme function:

http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/theme_menu_local_task

or try some creative use of: http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/menu_set_location perhaps in conjunction with hook_nodeapi()

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Thanks

Posted by ethanw on May 7, 2007 at 3:23pm

Thanks for the pointers pwolanin.

I couldn't get theme_menu_local_task to do my bidding as I couldn't figure out how to get information on the current node/page while inside the function.

menu_set_location looks very promising though, and a VERY good function to know about.

Cheers.

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