What is the variable for the human readable name of the node type?

Question

In my node.tpl I have added <?php print $type; ?>. This gives me the machine name of the node type e.g. blog_entry. What do I use to get the human readable form e.g. Blog entry?

Edit (Here is my current code)

<?php if ($display_submitted): ?>
  <div class="submitted"><div class="submitted-type submitted-item"><?php print $type; ?></div><div class="submitted-author submitted-item"><?php print $name; ?></div><div class="submitted-date submitted-item"><?php print $date; ?></div><div class="submitted-comments submitted-item"><?php print $comment_count; ?></div></div>
  <?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

You can use the node_type_load() function to load up the node type object, and then extract the name:

$type_obj = node_type_load($type);
$name = $type_obj->name;

You can integrate with your current code like so:

<?php
  $type_obj = node_type_load($type);
  $human_readable_type = $type_obj->name;
?>

<?php if ($display_submitted): ?>
  <div class="submitted">
    <div class="submitted-type submitted-item">
      <?php print $human_readable_type; ?>
    </div>
  <div class="submitted-author submitted-item">
    <?php print $name; ?>
  </div>
  <div class="submitted-date submitted-item">
    <?php print $date; ?>
  </div>
  <div class="submitted-comments submitted-item">
    <?php print $comment_count; ?>
  </div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

Answer 2

You can look up this information using entity_get_info(). Here is a small code example of how to use this API call:

$content_type = 'blog_entry';
$entity_info = entity_get_info('node');
$human_name = $entity_info['bundles'][$content_type]['label'];

This call also returns lots of other useful information such as the fields attached to each bundle, but since it loads so much data it's probably better to use the solution Clive posted if you are going to be calling it every page load.

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Expanding on Clives answer, if you would like to have the type accessible from the node template, add the following code to your template.php file inside your current themes file and ensure that you replace MY_THEME with the name of your theme:

function MY_THEME_preprocess_node(&$vars){
    $type_obj = node_type_load($vars['type']);
    $vars['human_type'] = $type_obj->name;
}

Then anywhere inside your node templates you can use:

<?php print $human_type; ?>

Answer 3

D7 I use node_type_get_name($node->type);