Page Title Tokens do not work on the frontpage.

are your views displaying full nodes rather than teasers?

Marking as need more info so I can keep my issue list organised...

Hmm this is an odd problem.

For starters, the frontpage, with Page Title, should pick-up the value from a completely separate field.

Integrating (as a feature request) is an in-progress thing for Page Title 2...

Some things to note:
1) Page Title will assume a node's title is the Node Title rather than the Page Title field IF the Page Title field is blank...
2) Page Title only gets the title from the node if a node is being viewed as a page (see Line 128)

Could you paste in your _phptemplate_variables function from template.php please?

1) $drupal_title is an undefined variable so by saying "!$drupal_title" you basically saying "NOT NULL" which is the same as true, causing the if statement to render "TRUE" for ALL phptemplate_variable requests.... read 2 for why this is page...
2) the drupal_is_front_page() check is NOT a good idea in here... If you visit the frontpage, the _phptemplate_variables gets called severl times with hooks such a page, node, box, comment, block and probably more... But in each call its still the frontpage so the head_title will get set and, more importantly, page_title_page_get_title() will get called for each one, probably causing token related issues which, in turn, is probably causing your node title problems.

If you follow to documentation for the module you should see that the code to go in this function simple looks for the page hook - this is VERY important!

Try replacing the function with this (assuming you've provided the complete function above):

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
  $vars = array();
  if ($hook=='page') {
    // These are the only important lines
    if (module_exists('page_title')) {
      $vars['head_title'] = page_title_page_get_title();
    }
  }
  return $vars;
}

I'm marking this as fixed because I believe that is the problem - that Page Title is getting called too many times on a page and thus the page title token stuff is not functioning correctly...

Please reopen if this doesn't fix your problem.

I didn't realise it was V1.1, got confused sorry...

My point still stands though that the module will function correctly using the template.php code I provided rather than your modification.

Your mod calls the page_get_title function for ALL hooks. I believe all the node hooks come BEFORE the page hook - especially if you have a lot listed as you do. Here is the code...
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/page_title/...

Now... Note how this function statically caches the title. This means that if a page title is generated for a non-page hook then it will be remembered and produced on the next call.

How are the nodes listed on that panel? Views?

I'm sorry your having these problems and I will try my best to help you but my concern here is that I and many friends have use Panels + Views + Drupal 5 + Page Title 1.1 and have had ZERO problems. You would also think that others may have opened similar threads in the past year about it too... I just find it a little odd that you appear to be the only one. This, to me, implies that there is something special or different about your system. What? I dont know yet...

IIRC (I stopped using 1.1 a long time ago), There are two templates. Default and Frontpage. Within this (say default) template you should have it set to maybe "!page_title | mysite.com". Now, if you set the Panel Title to "flibble". When you visit this Page Title will take the default title from drupal_get_title(). It then looks in its static internal cache for Page Title (a function with a static variable). This function in turn ONLY stores a title for a node which is views in PAGE mode - this means a node being shown standalone. Note: STANDALONE, Teaser of Full View is irrelevant - you can have many nodes view in full without them being standalone PAGES.

Now as this Panel looks like it has Views in teasers then I can safely assume that hook_nodeapi is being called for each one, but as they're not standalone nodes then the $page argument should be FALSE and not TRUE (as it would be for a node/xxx URL). Therefore Page Title shouldn't statically cache a node's page title.

Instead, therefore, it should fall back to the drupal_get_title() result. This should be the Panel Title which will then get inserted into your default template when you configured Page Title.

Now there is ONE bug I have just seen (and recall being submitted too actually). There is no !page_title "token" for the FRONTPAGE. This is because - at the time - I didn't think you could set one... turns out you can, say if you promote a node as the frontpage in Site Information. This might explain your frontpage problems?!

What are your default and frontpage token setup as?

Do you have the Token Module installed on your site (say for use with PathAuto)? If so, you could try upgrading to Page Title 2 (not the dev, get the latest alpha). This uses Tokens and is FAR better. We're using Alpha5 on www.pponline.co.uk and it works perfectly.

With regard to the problem in 1.1, it sounds like your view (or something) is invoking hook_nodeapi with a node as a PAGE view rather than an individual. Where this is happening, I dont know - but that is the ONLY way the last node in your list would be overriding the Panel title. Have you overridden the view with your own code?

Thats odd about the frontpage tokens not working... I'm sure I've used them on other sites! I shall investiage this for you. Thanks for brining this up.

I've tested the frontpage tokens on ALPHA6 (and 5)... They worked fine for me. What tokens were you using?

Marking as fixed... I cannot replicated and there has been no further reports of this or any similar problem.