How to hide page title based on node type using template_preprocess_page()

Question

I am trying to hide the title of the current page (as printed by page.tpl.php) if the current page is 1) a node in full display (as opposed to teaser mode), AND 2) the node type is either concert or bio. I print the node title for these content types directly in the node content, so I want to hide the duplicate being printed by page.tpl.php. I am not able to get this to work directly in page.tpl.php, and my reading suggests the best practice is to handle template logic in template.php using preprocess and process functions. So, I am trying to hide the current page title (with the above 2 conditions) using template_preprocess_page(). This is my code.

<?php
    function MYTHEME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
        if (!empty($variables['node']) && $variables['node']->type == 'concert') {
            hide($variables['title']);
        }
    }
?>

I read How do I test for node type to print a variable from template.php? and the documentation page for template_preprocess_page(), and various other sites, but I just can't seem to get this to work. I saw suggestions that you have to call isset() on $variables['node'] before testing for the node type, but that didn't work either. I didn't see a clear solution posted anywhere, and I'm at my wit's end.

Answer 1

and my reading suggests the best practice is to handle template logic in template.php using preprocess and process functions.

Decoupling the logic from the rendering code simply means the code in template.php sets a variable that is checked in the template file. In this way, the logic is all contained in the template.php file, while the rendering code is all in the template files.

template.php

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  if (!empty($variables['node']) && $variables['node']->type == 'concert') {
    $variables['show_title'] = FALSE;
  }
}

page.tpl.php

<?php if ($show_title && $title): ?><h1 class="title" id="page-title"><?php print $title; ?></h1><?php endif; ?>

hide() doesn't work because $variables['title'] is a string, not a rendering array. hide() is always used with a rendering array, and it doesn't have any effect with a string, not even when the string is passed to render().
Actually, passing a string (or any value that is not a reference to a variable containing an array) to hide() would cause a PHP error, since the function uses this code.

function hide(&$element) {
  $element['#printed'] = TRUE;
  return $element;
}

Unsetting $variables['title'] with unset($variables['title']) doesn't work too, as template_process_page() would get the page title from drupal_get_title().

if (!isset($variables['title'])) {
  $variables['title'] = drupal_get_title();
}

Answer 2

You can manage this using drupal_set_title().

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars){
    if (isset($vars['node']) && $vars['node']->type == 'news'){
        drupal_set_title('');
    }
}

Answer 3

Try this assuming your if condition is correct :)

 function MYTHEME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
        if (!empty($variables['node']) && $variables['node']->type == 'concert') {
            unset($variables['title']);
        }
    }

Answer 4

Less complicated way is by printing this in your page.tpl.php

<?php hide($title); ?>

But if you want it to be dynamic I would suggest to use the preprocess_page as suggested by others.

Answer 5

In CSS, I did this to my theme

/*    Front Page - hide title  */
body.front header h1 {
 position: absolute; 
 left: -999em;    
}

As recommended by http://www.alistapart.com/articles/now-you-see-me/

Why? Because you still want to have the header and h1 'visible' to screen readers for accessibility. If you simply strip off the value of the H1, you're robbing your blind and low vision visitors of some potentially important information.

Answer 6

the suggestion of mytheme_preprocess_page works for me but if is used $vars['title_hidden'] = TRUE;

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if (isset($vars['node']->type) && $vars['node']->type == 'type') {
    $vars['title_hidden'] = TRUE;
  }
}

Answer 7

The correct function is

function mytheme_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
}

instead of

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
}