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I need to remove title from rendered custom entity.

unset($entity->title) is not good because i still need to use its value in this rendered entity to use in markup.

css display:none is not good idea on my point of view as well.

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  • "I need to remove title from rendered custom entity." ... "because i still need to use its value in this rendered entity" - you're contradicting yourself in a couple of sentences. Can you clarify the question. Jan 14, 2013 at 8:50
  • for e.g. i need $entity->title to use in l() with some other url. Looks like it is not possible to do it in hook_entity_view and should be done in somevere else.
    – drupal2000
    Jan 14, 2013 at 9:31
  • Where rendered title is generated firstly, in what function?
    – drupal2000
    Jan 14, 2013 at 9:34
  • It was easy. I made it in my custom entity.tpl.php.
    – drupal2000
    Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48

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hook_entity_view(), and hook_entity_view_alter() are not the hooks you should use to avoid an entity title is rendered, as the entity title is not generally passed to the $build parameter passed to those hooks.

This is the content of the $build parameter for three different entity Drupal defines.

  • Node

    screenshot

  • Comment

    screenshot

  • Taxonomy term

    screenshot

Furthermore, the purpose of hook_entity_view() is adding content to $entity->content, not altering $entity. The description given in the documentation page for the hook is the following:

The module may add elements to $entity->content prior to rendering. The structure of $entity->content is a renderable array as expected by drupal_render().

To avoid the title is rendered for an entity, you should use a preprocess function for the template file used by the entity, and unset a variable used from the template file for the title. For example, for a node, a module could use the following code.

function mymodule_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
  $variables['title'] = '';
}

Similar code would work for comments, but in that case the function would be mymodule_preprocess_comment().
For taxonomy terms, there isn't a title but there is the term name, which is printed from the template file using the following code.

<?php if (!$page): ?>
  <h2><a href="<?php print $term_url; ?>"><?php print $term_name; ?></a></h2>
<?php endif; ?>

Setting $term_url, and $term_name to an empty string would cause the following HTML output to be printed.

<h2><a href=""></a></h2>
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  • Thx for a lot of details, i solved my problem by coping default entity.tpl.php and commented out 'title'.
    – drupal2000
    Jan 16, 2013 at 20:23
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By the comments it looks like you took care of this, but I was going to suggest using the hide() function in a template file and then print out that title variable where ever you needed it in the markup of the tpl.

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  • Thx a lot, i did not know about this function.
    – drupal2000
    Jan 16, 2013 at 20:26

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