Dynamic page titles in Symfony 1.4

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Tom picture Tom · Apr 27, 2010 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I'm wondering if anyone's got any good advice/experience regarding setting dynamic meta titles in Symfony?

Currently, the solution I'm aware of would be to use the following code to set a title individidually in each action:

$this->getResponse()->setTitle('This is a title');

Because I also need translated titles, I could call the i18n helper in the action to get them included in the extracted XLIFFs. No special SEO stuff needed, just a clean title.

However, the above does require that I tweak every single action separately. View.yml is not suitable as I frequently have multiple actions/templates per module.

Is anyone aware of a better approach in Symfony or is this indeed the right/only way to go?

Thank you.

Answer

NiKo picture NiKo · May 2, 2010

You should use slots.

In your layout <head> tag:

<title><?php echo get_slot('page_title', __('Default page title here')) ?></title>

And in an action template:

<?php slot('page_title', __('Action page title goes here')) ?>

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