How to change separator character in the title?

[glow12121]

Hi,

Is it possible to change the separator character in the website's name, the one displayed in the browser's title bar? It is normally something in the way of: "Page title (taken from pagename.md) - Sitename (taken from yellow-system.ini)". Here, the separator is - (a hyphen, plus two spaces before and after it).

[GiovanniSalmeri]

A quick and dirty solution is to modify lines 2987-2988 in system/extensions/core.php: it is there that the titleHeader of the page is created. Unfortunately this solution is very dirty: at each update you will lose your modification. A cleaner solution is to change line 4 of system/layouts/header.html. Instead of using the titleHeader you can build a string however you wish. Hope this helps!

[glow12121]

Thank you for the comments! Line 4 of header.html has this code: <title><?php echo $this->yellow->page->getHtml("titleHeader") ?></title> How can I only change the separator character here?

Should I just change it to something like this (" | " instead of " - ")?

<title><?php echo 
$titleHeader = ($this->location==$this->yellow->content->getHomeLocation($this->location)) ?
                $this->get("sitename") : $this->get("title")." | ".$this->get("sitename");
?></title>

It seems to be working alright.

[markseuffert]

Set TitleHeader in the page settings at the top of a page. Here's an example content file:

---
Title: For people who like to drink espresso
TitleHeader: For people who like to drink espresso | Glow1212
---
This is an example page.

This solution works on a per-page-basis. Good when you want to adjust the title of a few pages. Mind-numbing terrible when you have to adjust the title of all pages. Fortunately the API for developers lets you automate things. As Giovanni kindly explained, you could use a layout file or onParsePageOutput() to change the HTML title element of all pages on your website.

[glow12121]

Thank you for the comments! I've replied above to your colleague Giovanni.