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A plugin to automatically generate titles for web pages using routes from the HTTP request url.

This plugin will automatically generate a working title using values such as the request's controller, action, prefix if there is one and the app name if you provide one.

You can set our own format by configuring the Component when loading it in your application.

Version map:

Plugin	Branch	Cake	PHP
2.x	main	5.x	^8.1
1.x	1.x	4.x	^7.4 \| ^8.0

Configuration options:

format - How the generated title should be formatted. See valid placeholders below.
- Default format: {{prefix} - }{{controller} - }{{action} - }{{displayField}}{ » {appName}}
- Example generated: Admin - Files Types - View - PDF » CakePHP application
appName - Your application's name. Used as replacement for the appName placeholder.
ignoreIndex - If true, and the requested action is index, then the action will not be placed in the title
showDisplayFieldOnView - If true, the display field value (e.g. the files type's name) will be placed in the title.

Valid placeholders:

appName - Will be replaced by the app's name, if you provide one in the component's configuration
controller - Will be replaced by the requested controller
action - Will be replaced by the requested action
prefix - Will be replaced by the requested prefix, if there is one.
displayField - If your action stores an entity variable in the view, the component attempts to get the entity's display field value to display in the title
- For example: If you have a table called Tools and the display field is the tool's name, it will place the tool's name in the title.
- The display field value is not fetched on its own from the database. It attempts to find a view var in which to get the value from.
- Please note that the entity variable must be named using cake's convention. A Tool entity variable must be $tool. A FilesType entity must be named $filesType.

Usage:

In your Application.php file:

    // On the top, with your other use statements
    use Avolle\Title\Plugin as TitlePlugin;

    /**
     * Boostrap method. Load required plugins
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function bootstrap(): void
    {
        $this->addPlugin(TitlePlugin::class, ['autload' => true]);
    }

In your AppController.php file:

    /**
     * Initialization hook method.
     *
     * @return void
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public function initialize(): void
    {
        parent::initialize();

        $this->loadComponent('Avolle/Title.Title', [
            'appName' => 'Title App',
            'format' => '{{prefix} - }{{controller} - }{{action} - }{{displayField}}{ &raquo; {appName}}',
            'ignoreIndex' => false,
            'showDisplayFieldOnView' => true,
        ]);
    }

In your layout file

<head>
<title><?= $title; ?></title>
</head>

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