Comments on: Setting the page title

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:57 +0000

@Matti: Yes, in most cases it is the right thing to set the title in the view.

By: Matti Putkonen

Matti Putkonen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:35:57 +0000

I would say setting the title in view is the right thing to do. The title of the view does not concern the controller.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:16:49 +0000

@Anupom: Yes, I agree with you, it’s not obvious that there is a special handling for “title”. See also my answer to Anonymous.

By: Anupom

Anupom — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:52:14 +0000

Well, I was really confused and thought it’s a bug when I found the fact that setting view variable as ‘title’ actually changes the title of the page. Like, as Wouter mentioned,
$this->set(’title’, ‘nice title’); works with $title_for_layout;

I think it’s unnecessary. There are already few different ways of setting the page title. Why do we need this then? :’(

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:29:42 +0000

@all: Thanks for your comments!

@Wouter: Thanks for your hint, I wasn’t aware that “title” is treated differently.

@Anonymous: I agree with you, it would be better if there would be only one way to set a title. And instead of the special handling of “title” it would be more logical to use “title_for_layout”, so that you have to use the same name in the controller and the layout.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:11:35 +0000

3 distinct ways to set titles is stupid. The special handling of ‘title’ in View::set() should go away — why not pull pageTitle out of viewVars?

blech.

By: Wouter de Boer

Wouter de Boer — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:44:03 +0000

Another method $this->set(‘title’, ‘nice title’); works with $title_for_layout; but confusing if you’ve a (blog??)title in your content.

By: dr. Hannibal Lecter

dr. Hannibal Lecter — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:30:56 +0000

I do the same as John Reeves, as the page title seems a part of the view. I do combine it though, in the layout, with the site name variable in my configuration.

By: Bret Kuhns

Bret Kuhns — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:15:38 +0000

I like Sosa’s idea and never even thought you’d be able to do that. I assumed since the head/title portion of the layout comes before the page view, setting the title in the view wouldn’t work. I guess I should’ve just tried it to see what happens. Thanks for pointing this out guys :)

By: John Reeves

John Reeves — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:39:19 +0000

I’ve always been under the impression that the tag was part of the “View” logic and therefore I set it at the top of the .ctp file before any other HTML.