Always having your board name in the title of your forum

[jepot5]

The problem now is that the index of your forum is going to have something like "My community - My community - Index" as a title. This is easily fixed through the language files.

Anyone else using SimplePortal? I'm getting MY COMMUNITY - MY COMMUNITY and I can't seem to fix it. Any suggestions?

Other than that this works great. Thanks a bunch.

in Sources/TPortal.php, find:

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$context['page_title'] =

remove

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$context['forum_name']

replace with your own

[jepot5]

Hi
how do I fix this so whenever i go to someone's profile, I will see this

{Custom text I inputed} - Viewing Profile: {Display name}

Open profile.php

Find:

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// Set the page title if it's not already set...
if (!isset($context['page_title']))
$context['page_title'] = $txt['profile'] . ' - ' . $txt[$_REQUEST['sa']];

Replace with:

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// Set the page title if it's not already set...
if (!isset($context['page_title']))
$context['page_title'] = 'Text you want to show '.$txt['profile'] . ' - ' . $txt[$_REQUEST['sa']];

thanks for the help, but not working,

i think the profile pages integrate with tinyportal as when i did the editing for tinyportal (see above post) it also shows the same title when viewing profiles only

and also help me fix
My Community - My Community: Calendar (The first phrase is what I entered and I want to remove "My Community:")

[serge06]

Any way to have the title show:
Board Name - Forum Category - Post Title

for even better SEO
Thanks

[krick]

I'm using this...

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$context['page_title'] = $context['linktree'][0]['name']. ' - ' .
                                      $context['linktree'][1]['name']. ' - ' .
                                      $context['linktree'][2]['name']. ' - ' .
                                      $context['linktree'][3]['name'];


To get...

forum title - category - board name - topic

...as my page title.

The only problem is that when I'm at higher levels of the hierarchy, I get extra dashes.  I need to add code to omit the empty elements.

[Paracelsus]

Since I didn't like to put "Home" or "Index" in the first page, my solution was:

In index.template.php put a "short version" of the board name + page title:

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<title>F&oacute;rum SCP - ', $context['page_title'], '</title>';

In index."language".php put the trimmed part to have the "long version" of the board name, since this is shown just in Home or Index page:

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$txt[18] = 'A Comunidade do Sporting Clube de Portugal';

So in sum, except for Index page where we have the full forum title, every other page show "Fórum SCP - Page Title".

[Sabby72]

Could Someone please tell me if I did something wrong. I don't think I did, but the title now shows up as - - Index, whereas it used to show up as - Index. I obviously missed something, as it didn't change to show the forum name.

Here's what I replaced:
Index.template.php on line 79:
<title>', $context['forum_name'], ' - ', $context['page_title'], '</title>';

index.english.php on line 36:
$txt[18] = 'Index';

Thanks. As you can see, I'm somewhat new to php.

[sabby]

I give up. I've tried this at least a dozen times now and it never works.

[Paracelsus]

Could Someone please tell me if I did something wrong. I don't think I did, but the title now shows up as - - Index, whereas it used to show up as - Index. I obviously missed something, as it didn't change to show the forum name.

Here's what I replaced:
Index.template.php on line 79:
<title>', $context['forum_name'], ' - ', $context['page_title'], '</title>';

index.english.php on line 36:
$txt[18] = 'Index';

Thanks. As you can see, I'm somewhat new to php.

It probably means that in Boardindex.php in Sources - I think it's this file that uses $txt[18], you have most likely something weird before $txt[18] that gives - - before the Index word the whole time.

[krick]

Sabby, undo your other changes, and then add this to index.template.php ....
(just the new code part between the begin/end comments)

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function template_main_above()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

// -- begin build better page title --
$tboard = $context['linktree'][2]['name'];
$tboard = empty($tboard)?'':' - '.$tboard;
$ttopic = $context['linktree'][3]['name'];
$ttopic = empty($ttopic)?'':' - '.$ttopic;
if (! ereg($context['forum_name'], $context['page_title']))
$context['page_title'] = $context['linktree'][0]['name'].$tboard.$ttopic;
// -- end build better page title --


[krick]

For some reason, the code in my last post generates errors in the log.

This version of the code doesn't.  Am I missing something subtle about the PHP syntax?

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$tboard = empty($context['linktree'][2]['name'])?'':' - '.$context['linktree'][2]['name'];
$ttopic = empty($context['linktree'][3]['name'])?'':' - '.$context['linktree'][3]['name'];
if (! ereg($context['forum_name'], $context['page_title']))
  $context['page_title'] = $context['linktree'][0]['name'].$tboard.$ttopic;


[SleePy]

It would be helpful to know the php error.

[minos]

hi .. i delete  $txt[18] = $context['forum_name'] . ' - &Iacute;ndice';

from my index english and spanish  index but does not work

[studentforums]

I want the page number of the topic to display in the title. I understand I have to modify Sources/Display.php among others.

These two lines from Display.php are where I think the problems are

   censorText($topicinfo['subject']);
   $context['page_title'] = $topicinfo['subject'] . " - " . $txt['page'] . $context['page_info']['current_page'];

There is another piece of code in Sources/Messageindex.php which does the smes thing for the boards.

     // 'Print' the header and board info.   
     $context['page_title'] = strip_tags($board_info['name'] . " - " . $txt['page'] . $context['page_info']['current_page']);

Why does the second piece of code display the page number but not the first?

[Arantor]

Likely you'll see an error in the error log for an undefined index for $context['page_info']['current_page'] in the first case; it's built differently from what I remember of it.

[thischarmingmanc]

The whole concept is  very bad for SEO the SMF guys knew what they were doing.

to add the same word for verey page on your site, dilutes your unique content, thus making every page on your site less search engine friendly. 

I tried using a keyword. This one is good for SEO

[Arantor]

The whole concept is  very bad for SEO the SMF guys knew what they were doing.

to add the same word for verey page on your site, dilutes your unique content, thus making every page on your site less search engine friendly.

Not if it's the site name or contains a unique keyword that is relevant to the site.

[Shark-Time]

very nice will try it soon..

[studentforums]

Ok I think the title is to my satisfaction apart from my quibbles in my last post.

[heavyccasey]

Another solution is to use a Favicon.

[Shark-Time]

nice sharing thanks mate...