Get News Article Title Displayed in Page Title

[Elijah Lofgren]

To get News Article Title in Page Title like I just got working on this page: http://www.elijahlofgren.com/news/241/56/

Update: The instructions below are now outdated. No source modification is necessary. See this post:  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg58559


1. Open modules/News/action.detail.php
2.Find this line:

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$onerow->title = $row['news_title'];

3.After that line add this code on a new line:

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$this->news_title = $row['news_title'];

4.Log into your CMSMS Admin Panel
5.Go to "Extensions » User Defined Tags"
6.Click the "Add User Defined Tag" link.
7.In the "*Name:" field paste this name (can really be anything as long as no spaces or special chars):

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add_news_title_to_page_title

8.In the "*Code" field paste this:

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global $gCms;
$module =& $gCms->modules['News']['object'];
if (isset($module->news_title))
{
	$text = $module->news_title;
	if (function_exists('str_ireplace'))
	{
		$params['content'] = str_ireplace('<title>', '<title>'.$text. ' - ', $params['content']);
	}
	else
	{
		$params['content'] = eregi_replace('<title>', '<title>'.$text. ' - ', $params['content'] );
	}
}

9.Click the "Submit" button
10.Now go to "Extensions » Events"
11.Click on the "ContentPostRender" link (Description is "Sent before the combined html is sent to the browser") URL will be like: /admin/editevent.php?action=edit&module=Core&event=ContentPostRender
12.From the dropdown  select "add_news_title_to_page_title"
13.Click the "Add" submit button.

Whew, now when a news article is viewed, the page title should have the article title in it.

Hope this helps someone,

Elijah

[carasmo]

Wowie! Thanks!

[carasmo]

Works wonderfully! Thanks again. Very, very helpful mod. Easy to understand directions.

[Elijah Lofgren]

Works wonderfully! Thanks again. Very, very helpful mod. Easy to understand directions.

Glad I could help.

[PatDeLux]

Worked fine on first try.Thanks !!! 

[carasmo]

How to get the pretty urls to work with news?

news-title-is-the-url

I really, really need it.

[tntstudio]

Dear Elijah Lofgren,

Thank you this has helped me very much too! I have been having trouble with CMSMS's news plugin for sometime now, and this is one of the solutions I have been looking for.

[reidjazz]

Elijah,
God has blessed you with many gifts...great coding, generosity...I'm sure there are others.

Many thanks! It's the small things that make the biggest difference most of the tiime!

Todd Reid

[brainpoo]

You.

Are.

Awesome.


Thank you so much, I've been looking for this solution.  This is totaly great, and thank you so much!

[calguy1000]

Elijah, it'd be cool if you made this a bit more generic.  Such that if you wanted to add stuff to the page title, you could just add things into smarty in either the page template, news, questions, etc, etc. and then use your UDT to handle modifying the title tag.

i.e. this could be added to the questions module detail template:

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{assign var='title_str' value=$record->question}

and then your UDT could use the value from smarty in the str_ireplace, etc.

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global $gCms;
smarty =& $gCms->getSmarty();
$text = $smarty->get_template_vars('title_str');
if (function_exists('str_ireplace'))
{
   ...
}

I'd love to include a UDT like this with the core.
else
{
   ...
}

[Elijah Lofgren]

This has stopped working in 1.0.5.

You'll probably need to edit the News file again.

[yankee80]

Thanks, this worked great!

Our SEO guy says that NOT displaying unique titles for news-details pages is an SEO catastrophe.

I think there should be a checkbox called "display news title in browser title" or smth. Who should I email this suggestion to?

Kind regards
Eric

[pgoneill]

Just did this and it's working in 1.0.6.  Thanks for the tip, great work!

[moorezilla]

yeah... this kicks ass. nice work.

this going to make it into 1.1?

[Elijah Lofgren]

this going to make it into 1.1?

Modifying the source code is no longer necessary: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg58559