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Dynamic page titles in Symfony 1.4

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.

Solution

  • I think writing separate titles in every action is OK. But if you want to add some global prefix you can use something like this in layout:

    <title>SITE NAME — <?= $sf_response->getTitle() ?></title>

    Also you can probably manipulate a title per module using preExecute() method in actions.