Custom node/add and node/edit page titles

as per http://drupal.org/node/68999 [hehe, toot-toot!] you can set the title in your form theme.

so in your template.php file, define (or extend), replacing as appropriate:

function phptemplate_node_form($form) {
  switch($form['type']['#value']) {
    case 'my_node_type':
      $title = empty($form['nid']['#value']) ? 'Add a new custom node' : 'Edit a new custom node';
      drupal_set_title($title);
      break;
  }
  return drupal_render($form);
}

This will allow you to redefine all node edit form titles actually. You'll have to modify slightly if you don't want to modify the title when you're editing existing nodes.

Thanks to Andre Molnar for setting me on the one and true drupal way for this solution.

Hi,
I've written a module to address this

http://www.practicalweb.co.uk/blog/09/05/25/module-make-title-nodeadd-pa...

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I've applied for a Drupal CVS account to upload this

Sean Burlington
www.practicalweb.co.uk

i'm quite sure this is not the best approach, but it got me quickly back to a working theme after moving from 5.x to 6.x.

for several content types, we have a parent-child relationship (e.g. school assignment/student submission to that assignment). for these types of content, we display the form side by side with its parent. in 5.x we used this in the template.php file:

function phptemplate_node_form($form) {
  switch ($form['#node']->type) {
    case 'self_essay':
     return _phptemplate_callback('node-add-tasksubmit', array('form' => $form));
    default:
     return theme_node_form($form);
  }
}

for 6.x we have moved to this:

function phptemplate_node_form($form)
{
  switch ($form['#node']->type) {
    case 'self_essay':
    	return theme_render_template(path_to_theme().'/node-add-tasksubmit.tpl.php', array('form' => $form));
    default:
     return theme_node_form($form);
}
}

i tried getting preprocess functions to work, and they were great for displaying nodes, but i could not figure out how to customize the node/add node/edit using that approach.

here's the code for the node-add-tasksubmit.tpl.php the hairy sql is used to figure out what node to display on the left:

<!-- start node-add-tasksubmit.tpl.php -->
	<div id='left5050'>
	<?php 
	if (arg(2) == 'edit') {
		$editnid = arg(1);
 		$query = <<<SQL
select field_gta_task_nid 
		from content_type_task_assignment_group, content_field_ems_assignment 
		where content_field_ems_assignment.nid = '$editnid' and
			content_field_ems_assignment.field_ems_assignment_nid = content_type_task_assignment_group.nid 
SQL;
	}
	else{
		$assignmentnid = arg(3);
		$query = "select field_gta_task_nid from content_type_task_assignment_group where nid = '$assignmentnid'";
	}
	$task = db_result(db_query($query));
	$node = node_load($task);
	?><h3>
	<?php print $node->title; ?>
	</h3>
	<?php
	print node_view($node, false, true, false);
	?>
	</div>
	<?php
	$submitform = "<div id='right5050'><h3>Please complete this form to submit your assignment</h3>";
	$submitform .= drupal_set_title('');
	$submitform .= drupal_render($form);
	$submitform .= "</div>";
	print $submitform;
	?>
<!-- end .tpl.php -->

Hello,

Now, what the best approach for D6?

Thanks

it’s good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource.
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here is a snippet of how to achieve that in you custom module

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
    if($form_id == 'mynodetype_node_form'){
         drupal_set_title('My new title');
    }
}

http://drupal.org/node/729322

I had the need for a module like this. After checking this post and others I rolled out the module Node Add Title for Drupal 7. Hope it can help you.

Node Add Title will let you change the title of the node creation pages and the node editing pages.

The contributed Node Add Title module helped me in this type of similar case. Also there are other ways mentioned on Stack exchange which might be helpful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1392573/changing-the-node-creation-ti....

I've built a simple module to control any page with a drupal form behind it — Form page title.
For now, it's experimental, but if someone will be interested, I'll promote it.

i'm quite sure this is not the best approach, but it got me quickly back to a working theme after moving from 5.x to 6.x.