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diff --git a/doc/todo/Allow_TITLE_to_include_part_of_the_path_in_addition_to_the_basename.mdwn b/doc/todo/Allow_TITLE_to_include_part_of_the_path_in_addition_to_the_basename.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cdabdb774 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Allow_TITLE_to_include_part_of_the_path_in_addition_to_the_basename.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +I need to display part of my pages' path in the `<title>` meta HTML +header instead of their basename ; e.g. for /abs/path/to/basename, I'd +like to set it to path/to/basename. + +Of course, one might consider it's my own problem, as I could +workaround this in my templates, and replace, in the `<title>` meta +HTML header, `<TMPL_VAR TITLE>` with a `TMPL_LOOP` on `PARENTLINKS`, +but... + +- it's ugly (call it a semantic hijacking if you want) ; a side-effect + of this ugliness is : +- it defeats any further plugin's (e.g. [[plugins/meta]]) + attempt to override the default title with a nicer one ; +- all parents appear : there is no way to specify how deep to go up in + the parents tree. + +So I really want to avoid this ugly workaround. + +Looking at `Render.pm`, the second solution I thought of was : + +- add a `parents_in_page_title` configuration option (default=0, i.e. + the current behaviour) ; +- modify `Render.pm` to insert as much parents as possible (up to + `N=parents_in_page_title`), separated by '/', in the `title` + template parameter, before the actual page basename ; I personally + would use N=2. + +The only problems I can see with this approach are : + +- it requires modification of the core, which may not be desirable +- the resulting title would be unconditionally overridden by the meta + plugin, and I can think of no clean solution to make this + configurable without hacking [[plugins/meta]], which I'd rather not + to ; I don't care, but once you add a ad-hoc feature to the core, + you can be sure someone will want a more generic version in less than + three months ;) + +I'm not too convinced writing a plugin for such a small feature isn't +overdoing it, so I'm tempted to implement this solution in the +simplest way : the generated title would be the default and could be +overridden later by plugins. + +Joey, what do you think ? + +(Before starting to write any single line of code, I need to know how +much you are on the "if you can do it as a plugin, don't ever modify +the core" side... :) + +In case you're on the hardcore side, I would probably write +a dedicated plugin, called `genealogictitle` or whatever, and : + +- use the pagetemplate hook to modify the `title` template parameter, + and maybe set `title_overridden`, as does the meta plugin +- add a `genealogictitle_depth` configuration option to tell how many + parents to display +- maybe add a `genealogictitle_overrides_meta` or whatever to decide + whether a title overridden by [[plugins/meta]] should be overridden + by genealogictitle ; but anyway, I've not found, in the plugins + documentation, any hint about the order in which the plugins are + called for a given hook, so the "choose the strongest between meta + and genealogictitle" thing might just be more complicated... (no, + I did not Read The Nice Source, yet). + +-- intrigeri |