Is it possible to hide the title of a block in a region to render it separately from the content?

Question

I'm styling a custom region for the "Active Forum Topics Block" that's included with Drupal. can I hide certain elements in region--[name].tpl.php like as it is done in node.tpl.php?

This is part of my node.tpl.php:

    // We hide the elements now so that we can render them later.
    hide($content['comments']);
    hide($content['links']);
    hide($content['field_image']);
    hide($content['links']['#links']['node-readmore']);
    hide($content['links']['#links']['comment-add']);
    hide($content['field_tags']);

I would like to do this if it's possible in region--forum_topics.tpl.php (example name "forum_topics"):

    hide($content['???']);

I don't know what the proper way is, for region.tpl.php. If this is possible, what can I put between brackets to hide the title of the block? If there is a documentation page I can see for more than just the block title, can you please link it?

Answer 1

It might be easier to do this in the block.tpl.php file (using $block->region to determine the region) as you have the title printed out separately from content there.

In your test environment you can also use stuff like these to get a better overview of complex variables (will help you with issues like this):

drupal_set_message('<pre>'.var_export($content, TRUE).'</pre>');

function print_r_html ($data) {
  ?><pre><?php print_r($data); ?></pre><?php
}

Answer 2

You can always use hook_block_view_alter to hide the title, you can do something like this

function MYMODULE_block_view_MODULE_DELTA_alter(&$data, $block) {
  if arg(xx) = xx {  // detemine the path is a forum topic path
    $data['subject'] = xxx;   // change subject
    // or you can:
    unset($data['subject']);
  }
}

ps: MYMODULE is your module name, MODULE_DELTA is block id. Hope it helps.