Seperate HTML and Navigation Title

[Qantas94Heavy]

I attempted to search the forums for my request, however was not able to find this simple request.  One of the things I'd like is for HTML titles (the one you place in <title></title> tags) to be able to be editable from the admin interface without changing the text shown in the navigation bar.  A basic example would be on the homepage of a site - you want the navigation bar to say "Home", the <title> property being "Welcome" and your headline being "Start Your Journey!", or something similar.  Currently I add this directly using PHP's echo, however if there was a faster, less cumbersome way to do so it would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

[Marty Walker]

Hi,

Welcome to the forums.

You might need to setup an extra field, for example: alt_title - for your HTML titles

<title><? echo $page->alt_title; ?></title>

If your alt_title field is empty - you might not need it on every page - you can just output the page title instead:

<title>
<?
	if($page->alt_title) {
		echo $page->alt_title;
	} else {
		echo $page->title;
	};
?>
</title>

I hope I've understood your question.

Regards

Marty

[Qantas94Heavy]

Thanks for the quick reply.    That's exactly what I was looking for, didn't know it would be so simple.  Also is it normal that if you click "view" without clicking the save button first, that you lose all of your edited work?

Hi,

Welcome to the forums.

You might need to setup an extra field, for example: alt_title - for your HTML titles

<title><? echo $page->alt_title; ?></title>

If your alt_title field is empty - you might not need it on every page - you can just output the page title instead:

<title>
<?
	if($page->alt_title) {
		echo $page->alt_title;
	} else {
		echo $page->title;
	};
?>
</title>

I hope I've understood your question.

Regards

Marty

[Marty Walker]

Great. Yeah, you do need to save before viewing.

Regards

Marty

[horst]

Hi and welcome!

<title>
<?
	if($page->alt_title) {
		echo $page->alt_title;
	} else {
		echo $page->title;
	};
?>
</title>

I like the short version of this:

<title><?php echo $page->get('alt_title|title');?></title>

You may let PW do the work for you

[ryan]

You can go even shorter if you want to 

<title><?=$page->{'alt_title|title'}?></title>

[Pete]

You can go even shorter if you want to 

<title><?=$page->{'alt_title|title'}?></title>

With curly braces?

[ryan]

With curly braces?

I don't often use that syntax, but if trying to make something consume as few characters as possible, it works.

[Pete]

Ah right, I didn't think you'd posted a mistake but it's one I've not personally seen before

[alxndre]

Also is it normal that if you click "view" without clicking the save button first, that you lose all of your edited work?

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/form-save-reminder/

I often also forget to save before viewing. This module from soma, takes care of that problem.