Problem getting page title

[flyingpylon]

I'm trying to extract the title of a static page for use in a template and I'm having some difficulty.

Unfortunately, the default $title variable assigned when a static page is loaded prepends the site name to the title (My Site Name - Page Title). Also, it appears that when the page is loaded, an array of all the page IDs and page titles is assigned, but I can't figure out how to get the title of just the page I want.

I have tried looping through the $templatepages array and doing a comparison with the requested page ID to get the appropriate title, but for some reason I keep getting the first title in the array, not the one I wanted.

I have tried many different possibilities, but here is my current code:

PHP Code:

{if $SCRIPT_NAME == "/classifieds/pages.php"}
    {foreach from=$templatepages item="entry"}
        {if $entry.pageID == $smarty.get.page}
            {assign var=pagetitle value=$entry.pPageTitle}
        {/if}
    {/foreach}
{/if} 


I'm still pretty new to Smarty, so maybe I'm making a simple mistake?

[Lhotch]

How about....

{$title|replace:'your site title here':''}

the above would replace "your site title here" with nothing thereby eliminating your sitename from the $title variable.

[flyingpylon]

DOH!! I figured this out on my own.

If the page is marked to NOT be displayed in the navigation, then its corresponding data will not be included in the $templatepages array.

Actually, I think this is an odd feature. Why should a page have to be displayed in the navigation automatically in order to be able to get its title? Now I will need to remove the automatic display of pages from my template and enter the ones I need manually. Not a big deal, but it seems odd to have to do that.

Larry- good idea about the replace, but in my opinion the page title should be present in its own, easy to get variable. If for some reason the site name changed even slightly the code would need to be updated. Though I assume I could also just use the constant for the site name instead of hard-coding it.

[Lhotch]

I assume the site title and page title are concatonated at the script level to keep things simple. I guess it could have just eas easily be done at the template level but it would mean adding an additional smarty variable assignment at the script level and then displaying both variables in the template. 6 of one half dozen of the other I guess.

[flyingpylon]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

I assume the site title and page title are concatonated at the script level to keep things simple. I guess it could have just eas easily be done at the template level but it would mean adding an additional smarty variable assignment at the script level and then displaying both variables in the template. 6 of one half dozen of the other I guess.

No, not really. If you have the Designer version it makes things much more difficult. I will be making some feature suggestions when I have more time, but in short I'm finding many places where presentation is being mixed in with coding logic and I was originally under the impression that by utilizing a template engine like Smarty that would not be the case. So far the problems have not been insurmountable, but they've made customization take longer than it really needs to.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by flyingpylon

No, not really. If you have the Designer version it makes things much more difficult. I will be making some feature suggestions when I have more time, but in short I'm finding many places where presentation is being mixed in with coding logic and I was originally under the impression that by utilizing a template engine like Smarty that would not be the case. So far the problems have not been insurmountable, but they've made customization take longer than it really needs to.

In a perfect world logic would be seperate from presentation but if you look at every template engine out there, they all offer people the ability to use logic via the template engine which is against the very reason for their existance. From a purist point of view its an oxymoron at best. Template engines dont eliminate logic from presentation but they can significantly reduce it and where it does exist it can be greatly simplified.

One thing I have learned during my time here, for every item one person wants to function a certain way, there is usually someone who wants it to function a different way.