How to override page title?

Is there a function, such as $this->redirect(), but for page title overriding?
Or any other way?
Thank you

depends where youre doing it from i would think...just guessing

Code:

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global $objPage;
$objPage->title = "something";

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From template...
Nope, that doesn't work...
Tried title, mainTitle, mainPageTitle — nothing...

Code:

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$objPage->pageTitle

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??????

The same... Seems that this var overrides by Contao after template code is run...(

Like Ramjet said -- it depends on where that code is. If you're doing it from inside a template, it won't work, I think because the template is already compiled before your code has a chance to run.

I used what probably is a hacky way to do this (I'm sure there's a much better way). I made a custom module that used the 'outputFrontendTemplate' hook to intercept the template and use RegEx to manually replace the title. It looks something like this:

new folders:
/system/modules/z_customMetaTitle/
/system/modules/z_customMetaTitle/config/

new file:
/system/modules/z_customMetaTitle/config/config.php

Code:

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$GLOBALS['TL_HOOKS']['outputFrontendTemplate'][] = array('customMetaTitle', 'updateCustomMetaTitle');

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new file:
/system/modules/z_customMetaTitle/customMetaTitle.php

Code:

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class customMetaTitle extends Frontend
{
        public function updateCustomMetaTitle($strContent, $strTemplate)
        {               
        return preg_replace( '/\<title\>.*<\\/title\>/', '<title>' . 'My Custom Meta Title Here' . '</title>', $strContent );               
        }
}

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Not sure if this helps, but it does let you override the page title to whatever you want.

Oh my!!
Medianomaly, thank ou so much, you've helped me with another problem, that I was bitting for a long time (this one)
And thanx for this hack )

Glad to help.

Someone may come by and tell us what a bad solution this is and how we should use some undocumented built-in Contao method to modify the title the proper way.

Until then, at least this works.

Seriosuly, this solution works!
[code=php:33zgoiqh]<span class="syntaxdefault">
</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">global*</span><span class="syntaxdefault">$objPage</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;
</span><span class="syntaxdefault">$objPage</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">-></span><span class="syntaxdefault">pageTitle*</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=*</span><span class="syntaxstring">'asd'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;
*</span><span class="syntaxdefault"></span>[/code:33zgoiqh]

From a template, sure? I've tried — it didn't...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Terion

From a template, sure? I've tried — it didn't...

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It's works, trust me. I've use this code in my projects. For example in Catalog module.

make sure you use "pageTitle" and don't use it multiple times in multiple templates, cause only 1 template can override the title, otherwise the next one will override the previous one. You can also add description (same method), keywords (using a GLOBALS array), etc.

I've figured out why it didn't work.
It doesn't work if to use it in FE template.
If in a module template — everything is good
Thank you all

Yeah -- thanks all.

That's probably why it wasn't working for me either.