How to tell what type of page? category, thread, etc.

mungo · Apr 5, 2011

i want to know what type of page is being served.

reason: i want to serve different content in the <head> depending on if the page is a category or a thread. basically i want the format of the title tag and also the description tag to be different depending on the type of page.

i tried

<xen:if is="{$forum.node_id}">
<title>This is a forum node</title>
<xen:else />
<title>this is a thread or other page</title>
</xen:if>

but that is clearly wrong.

additionally, if i'm on a thread page, what variable will tell me what the title of the forum that thread is in?

mungo · Apr 6, 2011

ok i've developed this further:

<xen:if is="{$contentTemplate} == 'forum_list'">
<title>{$xenOptions.boardDescription}</title>
<meta name="description" content="my content here" />
<xen:elseif is="{$contentTemplate} == 'forum_view'" />
<title>{xen:raw $title}</title>
<meta name="description" content="{xen:raw $pageDescription.content}" />
<xen:elseif is="{$contentTemplate} == 'thread_view'" />
<title>{xen:raw $title}, at example.com</title>
<xen:else />
<title><xen:if is="{$title}">{xen:raw $title} | {$xenOptions.boardTitle}<xen:else />{$xenOptions.boardTitle}</xen:if></title>
</xen:if>

the above all works fine, but i need to get the name of the forum that a thread is in.
what variable do i need to use to get that.

furthermore where can i find out what all possible values in the $head array could be -
i've added {xen:helper dump, $head} to the bottom of the PAGE_CONTAINER template, but when calling any particular page only the keys which are set are displayed, not what keys could potentially be set.
eg. on the forums page it shows: canonical, description and openGraph
on an individual forum node page it shows: canonical and rss
where do i find what all the potential keys are?

How to tell what type of page? category, thread, etc.

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