put category extra field in title

[skyblue +]

Hi,

I've been researching the threads on changing page titles and have not been able to figure out how to put a category extra field in the title of the viewlistings page. (using designer v4.0.9)

I have created a parent extra field called "location" which has two child fields "US" and "International". (US contains states and international contains countries). This is working fine and displays in the viewlistings.

Can anyone assist in what code is needed to put the state (or country) name into the title?

Thanks in advance

[Lhotch +]

the extra fields ra estore in database tables that are normally not queried unless viewing the ad itself so that is the only time you are going top have access to the data in those fields without modifying the scripts where and making calls to thos tables where you want them.

[skyblue +]

Larry,

Understood, the ad detail page is where I want to put the state (or country) in the page title.

[Lhotch +]

place {debug} at the top of your layout.tpl file and it will cause a debug window to pup up with all youy variables in it. Then you can chose which to use.

[skyblue +]

Thanks Larry, I tried the {debug} and it does not pop-up for the ad detail page. It does for all other pages... Am I doing something wrong?

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by skyblue

Thanks Larry, I tried the {debug} and it does not pop-up for the ad detail page. It does for all other pages... Am I doing something wrong?

Do you have the SEO mod installed as well? If so that can interfere with debug output.

[skyblue +]

Yes, I do.

[bowers01 +]

Cant you just use this in the layout.tpl

{if $body==viewlisting.tpl'}
<title>{$sitetitle} {$state}</title>
{else}
{$sitetitle}
{/if}

Nick

[skyblue +]

Thanks for the suggestion Nick,

Unfortunately that hasn't worked since I'm not using the state field from the user registration. Instead I have created an extra field titled "extrastate" that is specific to the ad's location. It shows up just fine in the viewlisting page however when I try to call it into the title it's blank.

[bowers01 +]

Well in that case i guess you will have to add to the viewlisting.php unlesss larry knows something with the seo module.
I am unsure of the code needed to add in but Larry might be able to help you.
Sorry i couldnt be of more help.
Nick