What is the proper way of setting the page title in CakePHP 2.6?

Question

I am new to Cakephp and searching for how to set page titles and meta keywords,desc. for best SEO management.

I have checked any tutorials and question , I would like to ask that is it necessary to set up title in controller page and then fetch in any page of VIEW/mypage?

I am trying to set direct title in my home page in a way like :

$this->set('title', 'My Page Title');

But this is not working , Is there any way to direct set title without connection with controller?

I am using Version 2.6.3 of CakePhp.

Inigo Flores · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-05T17:22:00.037

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Since CakePHP 2.5, the right way of setting the title is as follows:

In your layout:

$this->fetch('title')

In you view:

$this->assign('title', 'My Page Title')

The same applies to the meta tags:

In your layout:

<? echo $this->Html->meta('keywords',$this->fetch('keywords'));?>
<? echo $this->Html->meta('description',$this->fetch('description'));?>

In you view:

<? $this->assign('keywords', 'My meta tags')?>
<? $this->assign('description', 'My description')?>

More on CakePHP Layouts.

edited Dec 05 '15 at 17:22

answered Dec 04 '15 at 20:08

Inigo Flores

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Thanks I will try same and let you know. – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 10:39
Title is working but meta is not working , it is printing meta tags at top of page instead of consider as meta tags. – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 17:17
You have to wrap it in `$this->Html->meta()`. I've edited the post. – Inigo Flores Dec 05 '15 at 17:23
If I do not have same page in View and layout , and if page is only in View then how can I set directly title? – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 17:37
Not sure what you mean. Every view is wrapped in a layout, and printed where `fetch('content'); ?>` is located inside the layout. – Inigo Flores Dec 05 '15 at 17:40
Actually in my site I can see that home.ctp file is there in folder **View**, but in layout there is no connection or page available related to home , so how can I set title for home page? – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 17:42
It defaults to app/View/Layouts/default.ctp. You only need one layout file, but can have more if required. – Inigo Flores Dec 05 '15 at 17:44
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/97077/discussion-between-helping-hands-and-inigo-flores). – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 17:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '15 at 18:27

The title tag would be set in the default.ctp of the layout in use, e.g. app/View/Layouts/default.ctp. You can hardcode your values there.

The displayed value comes from the PagesController::display() (app/Controller/PagesController.php), generated from the directory the rendered view resides in.

Setting your SEO title in a controller $this->set('seotitel', 'Foo') should propagate the value to the default.ctp, where you can display it:

<title>
    <?php echo $seotitel ?>
</title>

N.B. this is untested due to lack of a running 2.6 instance.

Thanks I will try same and let you know. – Helping Hands Dec 05 '15 at 10:39 — Helping Hands, Dec 05 '15 at 10:39

What is the proper way of setting the page title in CakePHP 2.6?

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