Dave Dash2012-04-07T22:42:44-07:00http://davedash.com/Dave Dashdd+atom1@davedash.comDynamically adjusting your page title in symfony2007-07-18T00:00:00-07:00http://davedash.com/2007/07/18/dynamically-adjusting-your-page-title-in-symfony<p>[tags]view, view.yml, symfony, reviewsby.us, title, seo[/tags]</p>
<p>A lot of the content on <a href="http://reviewsby.us/">reviewsBy.us</a> and other sites we make using <a href="http://symfony-project.com/">symfony</a> have dynamic content. We try to have our page titles reflect the content by prepending the name of the specific restaurant, document or menu item before the site name.</p>
<p>To do this we use a method called <code>prependTitle</code>. I define this in a file called <code>myActions.class.php</code> which almost all of my actions subclass in my projects. This way I can enhance all the actions simply by adjusting the common ancestor, <code>myActions</code>:</p>
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public function prependTitle($title)
{
$r = $this->getResponse();
$d = sfConfig::get('app_title_delimiter', ' « ');
$t = sfConfig::get('app_title');
$r->setTitle($title.$d.$t, false);
}
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<p>The page title isn't stored anywhere, so we have to put it in <code>app.yml</code>:</p>
<pre><code>app:
title: reviewsby.us
</code></pre>
<p>Voila!</p>