Question

I’m setting individual page titles in my controllers’ actions using:

$this->set( 'title_for_layout', 'Some Title' );

What I want to achieve is append a site title string to all these titles before rendering, i.e. say, “Some Title :: Site Name”.

The easiest way out would be to add this string manually to each point where the page title is set – but that’s like the brute force way.

What I tried was to override the beforeRender() method of each controller and add this statement:

$this->set( 'title_for_layout', $this->title_for_layout . ' » ' . Configure::read( 'Site.title' ) );

I thought this would append the site’s title to the page title for each action – but what I get instead is:

Notice (8): Undefined variable: SomeController::title_for_layout [APP\controllers\some_controller.php, line xx]

It seems like the title_for_layout (set in individual actions in the controller) hasn’t been set yet – which is throwing up this error.

My question is, where & How can I append the site title globally to all page titles – if not in this way?

Thanks,
m^e

Answer 1

use $this->pageTitle instead of $this->title_for_layout