suppress multiple taxonomy terms in title

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I use a function in my template.php file to create customized titles out of multiple fields for custom content types (i.e - first name + last name for a person node). You might be able to apply something like this to your situation. I haven't tested the following code, but it's just an idea:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {

  switch ($hook) {
     case 'page':
        if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy') {
	     drupal_set_title('Custom Group Name');
	}
     break;
  }
  return $vars;
}

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Just happened to stumble across this thread. It's a bit old, but maybe someone can help me out. I am trying to use an url like http://mysite.com/?q=taxonomy/term/123+567. Individually, the terms do exist, i.e. both terms are attached to some nodes. But when I write them combined with "+", as the Handbook says I'm allowed to do, and as this thread also deals with, I get a page title with both terms (the words, not the id's) combined with "+", but for the rest my page is blank, i.e. no nodes show up. Any idea what I could be doing wrong??

... i made the mistake to digg this up (confused the year), here is my solution for drupal 6:

insert into template.php

/**
* The title for multiple taxonomy terms can be quiet long (as described here: {@link http://drupal.org/node/158243})
*
* This fixes the current page title to only display the topmost/lightest term
*
* @todo make sure you are using the correct function name (replace THEMENAME by your theme name)
* @todo If there are multiple vocabularies or equal level terms one of them is randomly picked :-)
* @todo Terms must be separted by a space
* @param $variables Array of variables available to theme
*
*/
function THEMENAME_preprocess_page(&$variables)
{
    if (arg(0) != 'taxonomy')  return; //not taxonomy? -> exit

    $terms = explode(" ",arg(2));

    if(count($terms) <= 1) return; //only one term? -> exit

    foreach($terms as $term) {

        $children = _taxonomy_term_children($term); //get all children of the term

        if(empty($children)) {
             continue; //no children? Go for another round
        }
        else {
            foreach($children as $child) {
                $findings = array_keys($terms,$child); //look if any of the children are part of the called terms
                if(!empty($findings)) {
                    foreach($findings as $found) unset($terms[$found]); //yes? get rid of the child found
                }
            }
        }
    }
    $finally = taxonomy_get_term(array_pop($terms));
    $variables['head_title'] =  str_replace($variables['title'],$finally->name,$variables['head_title']) ;
   $variables['title'] = $finally->name; //remove this line if you do not want the page title chagned
}

There's no reason I can figure, but this breaks the styles for FF and Chrome using Fusion themes.

It sometimes breaks IE8 as well. Causes the right sidebar to disappear and the content to be under the left sidebar. I placed it in the page preprocessing function of the Fusion Core template.php (everything from the beginning if statement through the end where it says to comment out if you do not want the title removed).

Also changed the $variables variable to $vars to match the naming in the current template.php.

Using 6.19 drupal and Fusion 3.0/Acquia_Marina with Skinr 1.5.