By jetsetter on

Hey there,

My $head_title variable is currently showing "
| " on my pages. I only want this variable to display the page node title. How do I gain access to editing what goes into this and other $[variable]'s?

js

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webchick
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Located in /themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine

$head_title specifically is:

  if (drupal_get_title()) {
    $head_title = array(strip_tags(drupal_get_title()), variable_get('site_name', 'drupal'));
  }

...

'head_title'          => implode(' | ', $head_title),

So if you only have '|', you might have a blank site title? Check admin/settings and make sure the proper values are listed there.

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PurpleEdge commented

Or, is it incredibly hard to find some reference to the admin/settings page in the on-line documentation? I would have thought this page would have been near the top of the list, in a "Getting Started" page somewhere in the docs, but I can't seem to find any reference to it?

Not shooting the messenger [g] just using JetSetter's question to ask why it is so hard to find answers to the simple things?

Now someone might answer with a link directly to the appropriate page, but please explain how you found that page, because I couldn't - and I knew what I was looking for!

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webchick
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Configuration, which mentions going to admin/settings to get to the basic settings. And then there are sub-pages that explain what some of the more advanced settings on that page are.

I found this by starting at the Handbooks page. This gave me a list of all 5 handbooks (About Drupal, Installation/Upgrading, Configuration and customization, Developer, and Documentation). Of those, I chose Configuration and customization, because I know at this point Drupal is already installed, so the next step is to customize it to my needs.

From there, I glanced through the items on the side, and picked Configuration, since this seemed like a good place to start. And voila, on the front page was the blurb about admin/settings.

If you have some feedback into how to make this process easier, or how to improve the documentation, please by all means sign up to the Documentation mailing list, and/or submit issues (along with fixes if possible!) directly to the Documentation issues queue. We can use help, especially from the perspective of "still learning" Drupal users (once you get past a certain point, it becomes obvious to you where things are and then you lose this perspective).

Hope that helped, and glad jetsetter got their issue fixed. :)

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webchick
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There should be a link from the default install message to admin/settings so you don't have to hunt for a handbook page at all. Looks like while the link is there, it's pointed to the wrong place. I've added a patch to the welcome message which will solve this problem for 4.7. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

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PurpleEdge commented

I knew it had to be somewhere because I, and umpteen other users, have obviously managed to figure this out. I just suspect that it could have saved a lot of people a lot of searching and ferriting around, and forum questions etc etc if it was more easily accessible, or better explained.

Learning a product by using hunting up and down the menu system is one way, I guess?

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PurpleEdge commented

but, (had to be a but!) how would you know from reading that page, or from anywhere in the documentation, that the "Site-Name " is set here? Paradoxically, the three less critical properties are mentioned in the text, so would probably show up in some sort of search - If you knew what to search for?

And, to be even more difficult, where would I find reference to $Head and $Site_Name - I'm pretty sure I found a list of variables once, but can't remember where?

I'll happily sign up to contribute to the documentation, just have my reservations that the foundations aren't that solid.

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jetsetter commented

Webchick, you rock.

My phptemplate.engine actually had the following line(s):

...
  $vars = array(
    'head_title'          => (drupal_get_title() ? strip_tags(drupal_get_title()) .' | '. variable_get('site_name', 'drupal') : variable_get('site_name', 'drupal') .' | '. variable_get('site_slogan', '')),
    'language'            => $GLOBALS['locale'],
    'site'                => variable_get('site_name', 'drupal'),
...

I changed the 'head_title' line to:

    'head_title'          =>  drupal_get_title(),

And things are good. Thank you.

js

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poloparis commented

ok, bear with me, i'm new to Drupal (but loving it) and php, and i searched and i searched the forums ( i promise )

the phptemplate.engine sets the $head variables and many more, but... where does it get them from ???

ok, i see it gets them from the menu admin/home/administer/settings/general settings, but if i were to assign them a different way, how would i do it ? where does Drupal store these ?

is it possible to assign constants to $head and other vars ?

or should i NOT do that at all ?

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Hackenaton commented

"is it possible to assign constants to $head and other vars ? "

I am coming from a background in hardcoding browser end scripts and sites, so the idea of having these $ variables NOT controlled by me is foreign....