Comments on: How to remove the meta name=title element from Symfony pages

By: Olivier Hug

Olivier Hug — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:59:28 +0000

There is an even simpler solution to this:

go to the lib/vendor/helper/AssetHelper.php class,
and change the function include_metas() so that it skips
for the title tag (if…continue):

function include_metas()
{
$context = sfContext::getInstance();
$i18n = sfConfig::get(‘sf_i18n’) ? $context->getI18N() : null;
foreach ($context->getResponse()->getMetas() as $name => $content)
{
if($name = “title”) continue;
echo tag(‘meta’, array(‘name’ => $name, ‘content’ => null === $i18n ? $content : $i18n->__($content))).”\n”;
}
}

Cheers, Olivier

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:51:47 +0000

@Me: Sorry I took sooo long to respond! This is because the sfResponse and sfWebResponse classes were significantly changed after the 1.0 release. I have posted instructions on how to get this to work at http://jlcoady.net/symfony/how-to-remove-the-meta-nametitle-element-from-symfony-12-pages. Please post in the comments there if you are still unable to get it working.

By: Sun Zhen

Sun Zhen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:28:17 +0000

internationalization or escaping that include_metas() are not problem, basically my function is only deleted one data in an array, if the data called title exists. didn’t change any thing functionally in include_metas() at all.

regarding to change the every single layout, I guess most symfony project will keep all layout files in apps/frontend/templates folder. and shouldn’t be too many files in there.

also, if as you said, to change every single layout page became a problem. then override include_metas() or simply change include_metas() in symfony framework.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:23:53 +0000

The problem with that is that it doesnt do any of the internationalization or escaping that include_metas() does. The other advantage of my more complicated solution is that you can drop it in to a larger project and dont have to go around changing all of the templates.

By: Sun Zhen

Sun Zhen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:58:19 +0000

well, I would say, don’t have to be so complicated.

just add a helper function

getResponse()->getMetas() as $name => $content)
{
if($name != ‘title’) echo tag(‘meta’, array(‘name’ => $name, ‘content’ => $content)).”\n”;
}
}
?>

and use this include_metas_no_title() instead of include_metas() in your template. that’s it.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:36:09 +0000

Are you using Symfony v1.0 or v1.1? I have only tested this in v1.0 — we have not yet upgraded to v1.1 but plan to do so sometime this year.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:02:58 +0000

Does not work for some reason getting an error: Call to undefined method myWebResponse::getParameter.

in SF_SYMFONY_LIB_DIR/response/sfResponse.class.php line 136 …

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:02:08 +0000

Edited to handle the title setting in view.yml