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A common requirement is to customise the way in which the page title is displayed, For example, including the site name as part of the page title.  The code on this page will allow you to change the global page title across the entire site. You may customise it to your own liking within your own template files.  The code can be placed anywhere in your <strong>template</strong> index.php, although most people tend to insert it near the top or within the <nowiki><head></nowiki> element.

To get the current page title:
<source lang="php">
<?php
$title = $this->getTitle();
?>
</source>

Similarly, you use <tt>setTitle</tt> to set a new page title.  For example, to append the site name to the regular page title, you can use code like this:
<source lang="php">
<?php
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$this->setTitle( $title . ' - ' . $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
?>
</source>

Combining these two pieces of code together, you can do this:
<source lang="php">
<?php
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$this->setTitle( $this->getTitle() . ' - ' . $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
?>
</source>

Here's a more complete example of what a template would look like with this code embedded in it:
<source lang="php">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<?php
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$this->setTitle( $this->getTitle() . ' - ' . $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
?>
<jdoc:include type="head" />

.... rest of template file.

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