How to override page title?

[Terion]

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

[ramjet]

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

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

[Terion]

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

[ramjet]

$objPage->pageTitle

??????

[Terion]

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

[Medianomaly]

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

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

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

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

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

[Terion]

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 )

[Medianomaly]

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.

[Tru]

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]

[Terion]

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

[qrczak]

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

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

[thyon]

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.

[Terion]

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

[Medianomaly]

Yeah -- thanks all.

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