If like me you write your own modules that provide page views, there is currently no way (there was) to set the meta title from inside of your module. There was a function in the version 1 branch called "page_title_set_title", this allowed module developers to set meta page titles from inside the module, same way that you can use drupal_set_title:

here is a re-worked code from the latest module, hopefully this can be integrated into the next version. I am pasting the code here for my own reference.

STEP 1:
edit page_title_page_get_title function and replace:

      //If pattern is emtpy (either if the type is not overridable or simply not set) fallback to the default pattern
      if (empty($title)) {
        $title = variable_get('page_title_default', '[page-title] | [site-name]');
      }

to this:

      //If pattern is emtpy (either if the type is not overridable or simply not set) fallback to the default pattern
      if (empty($title)) {
        $title = (page_title_set_title()) ? page_title_set_title() : variable_get('page_title_default', '[page-title] | [site-name]');
        $title = strip_tags($title);        
      }

STEP 2:
add the page_title_set_title function:

/**
 * Sets or retrieves the page title of the current page.
 *
 * @param $title
 *   string The page title to set.
 * @return
 *   string The current page's title.
 */
function page_title_set_title($title = NULL) {
  static $stored_title;

  if (isset($title)) {
    $stored_title = $title;
  }
  return $stored_title;
}

Comments

nicholasthompson’s picture

nicholasthompson
Primary language English
commented
Status: Patch (to be ported) » Fixed

Restored in DRUPAL-5--2 and DRUPAL-6--2... Will be in the next tagged official release.

Cheers

chif’s picture

chif commented

Maybe we should have an option to attach site name to a title? Like this (well, not exactly, but just for example)


/**
* Sets or retrieves the page title of the current page.
*
* @param $title
*   string The page title to set.
* @return
*   string The current page's title.
*/
function page_title_set_title($title = NULL) {
  static $stored_title;

  if (isset($title)) {
    $site_name = ( variable_get('page_title_attach_site_name', FALSE) ? variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal site') : FALSE);
    if ($site_name === FALSE) {
      $stored_title = $title;
    } else {
      $stored_title = $title . variable_get('page_title_site_name_separator', ' | ') . $site_name;
    }
  }
  return $stored_title;
}

So one can have titles like "My module title :: My site name" without calling page_title_set_title('My module title' . ' :: ' . variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal site') ) on each page.

nicholasthompson’s picture

nicholasthompson
Primary language English
commented

This is not necessary as it's already available in the module settings. All you'd need to do is set the default page title tokens to: [title] :: [site-name] (you'd need to check the site name token...)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.