Topic: Custom Title for Front Page

[Sam12345]

Hello all
I am in the process of creating a front page for my form at www.clinicalresearchsociety.org  and this means that my forum is not accessible at www.clinicalresearchsociety.org/forum/. I noticed that the title of the page for both the front page and the forum is the same. My forum name is a long one and has many key words in it. I would like it to be the title for my forum page  but for the front page I would like to create a custom title so search engines treat it in a unique fashion. Can this be achieved and how? Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards
Sam

[AngelinaBelle]

I think it might make sense to change this in PortalMain.php, in function sportal_main(), which controls the contents of the portal page.

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$context['page_title'] = $context['forum_name'];

You could use some other variable or hard-coded string instead of $context['forum_name']

[Sam12345]

Can't find PortalMain.php. Where could it be located?
Thanks

[AngelinaBelle]

PortalMain.php should be in Sources

[Sam12345]

Thanks for the continued assistance. You could perhaps give me a step guide as to how to achieve this. I am a newbie when it comes to php programming although I have been running a popular smf forum for three years.
Regards
Sam

[AngelinaBelle]

Code: (find) [Select]

$context['page_title'] = $context['forum_name'];


Code: (replace) [Select]

$context['page_title'] = 'The New and very much shorter title for this portal page, which is better for SEO and everything else";

http://w3schools.com/php/ is a very helpful resource.

[Sam12345]

Thanks so much. Will implement.
Regards
Sam

[DrZux]

Fantastic, worked like a charm.