snapadoos

will this work-it seems to be what you are looking for, although I tried it and I can't seem to get it to work. Maybe you could have a peek and share if you can get it to work as it says it does.

"...This version of the title fix, uses the title_alias if it is defined, so that you can create long effective titles. It also allows title to be passed in the url, which can be handy for linking to components where Mambo will otherwise be confused as to where the title should come from."



http://www.marsjupiter.com/mambo/con...-Mambo-Portal/

yipppie

Hi Snapadoos,

I think i have used this before on an old version of mambo.

Its a great solution but i dont think that it works with 4.5.1

This is because the title has been defined in a different way for mambo now.

Ill have a go with it and see if i can hack it to work with 4.5.1.

If anyone else can have a go at this i will be in debt to you for the rest of my life.

yipppie

Nope it doesnt seem to work.

I have managed to get it into the template and the section works along with top level documents like Contact US and News (the default section that comes with mambo) but it wont work with Categories or items.

It seems like this is the same for all solutions, none of them will work with categories and items. Its a real pain in the ***, coz it seems such a simple thing.

I think the reason why it wont work is because in earlier versions of mambo, category and item lists were incorporated into the menu system of mambo. Now this has all been changed, because of the use/integration of the mymenus system in mambo, that allows you to have multiple menus.

I wish i could get every page in mambo including sections and categories to have its own specific title. Mambo is such a cool CMS, however, if i cant get this simple functionality to work , I might have to abandon it and try some other CMS because titles are too important to be overlooked.

snapadoos

maybe if we contacted marsjupiter.com who wrote/posts this fix they would be interested in fixing it up to work in 4.5.1a. I am also interested in getting something like this to work. marsjupiter person has already invested the time and has the knowledge of the file, maybe it is a simple thing to fix right up for us. has anyone contacted them? I will do now...

jema

Yep it does all seem to be changed in 4.51a, thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I will do my best to see what can be done about this.

jema

jema

I am a bit confused as to what is wanted here?

I use long titles and title alias's in 4.51.

I am not convinced that long titles in sections and categories are as important in the scheme of things as good article optimisation.

But how about this for a hack, find the menu code and make it truncate at "-" when display the item name.

So you could make your title:

About Us - All about downsizer.net

but only see "About Us" in menus.

jema

jema

So you could modify mod_mainmenu.php

at line 24:
ADD
$mitem->name = strtok($mitem->name,"-");

I am going to do this at downsizer.

jema

yipppie

Thanks v much Jema

I really hope this works, it seems to have worked well on your site.

I will try it when i get home and if it does work, i owe you many smiley faces.

Many thanks

jema

I have put the hack in, but no one has altered the text yet so I am not as yet using it.

jema

snapadoos

jema could you please clarify what the entire line 24 should look like - thank you!