Dynamic title depending on page (DRUPAL 7)

Question

Before I made the switch to Drupal (previously just static HTML), I had a div title in my header that changed depending on what page the user was on using the following code:

ABOUT PAGE

<?php
$title = "ABOUT US</span>";
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path .= "/includes/header.php";
include_once($path);  ?>

The reason this worked, however, was because I was using static HTML... which means I had every page set to use its own Index.PHP, located at (for the About page, for example) public_HTML/about/index.php. Therefore, I could edit each page individually to my liking by editing its respective Index file...

Now, with Drupal.. instead of having so many Index.PHP files like I did before (which was messy IMO...), I want to have every page use the same page.tpl.php (with the exception of the front page, which uses page--front.tpl.php).

Can I somehow modify the above PHP code to display a different title using IF statements depending on what page the user is on?

For example... (I have no idea how to PHP code so this is just to give you experts an idea of what I would want..)

Ifpage=about, $title=About Us; Ifpage=contact, $title=Contact Us;

Could this code all be in the same page.tpl.php?

Thank you so much!

TeeDeJee TeeDeJee · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-05T21:06:55

Drupal 7 has a title field for each content type. Why don't you use that?

It shows by default and you can change it for every node.

It is this code in your template file.

<?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
<?php if ($title): ?>
  <h1 class="title" id="page-title">
    <?php print $title; ?>
  </h1>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

$title_prefix (array): An array containing additional output populated by modules, intended to be displayed in front of the main title tag that appears in the template.

$title: The page title, for use in the actual HTML content.

$title_suffix (array): An array containing additional output populated by modules, intended to be displayed after the main title tag that appears in the template.

See https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!system!page.tpl.php/7 for all the variables available in your page.tpl template file.

If you want to style one part different from the other you could use an extra field for it.

Or if you need to do something with the value (I wouldn't suggest this!!!).

switch ($title) {
  case "About Us":
    // Do something with the title
    break;
  case "Contact Us":
    // Do something with the title
    break;
  case 2:
    // Do something with the title
    break;
}

Dynamic title depending on page (DRUPAL 7)

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