SetTitle always append defaults

[iwasingh]

Hi and thanks for the great work. I don't know why but whenever i set new title in my controller, for example with SEO::setTitle('test'); or SEO::setTitle('test',false); the defaults value of title on seotools.php is appendend. That means the final title of the page will be 'test+defaults_title'. How can i override the value on seotools.php or disable the append of the default title?

here is the seotools.php `<?php

return [ 'meta' => [ /*

• The default configurations to be used by the meta generator. */

  /*

• EXCLUDE SEO ROUTES PANEL / /
• More about
• • titles at: https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag
• • description: https://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

• • canonical url: https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps */ 'defaults' => [ 'title' => "myDefaultString", // set false to total remove 'description' => "MyDefaultDescription.", // set false to total remove 'separator' => false, 'keywords' => [ 'test'], 'canonical' => false, // Set null for using Url::current(), set false to total remove //multiple pages considered as one ],

    /*

• Webmaster tags are always added. / 'webmaster_tags' => [ 'google' => null, 'bing' => null, 'alexa' => null, 'pinterest' => null, 'yandex' => null, ], ], 'opengraph' => [ /

• The default configurations to be used by the opengraph generator. */

  'defaults' => [
      'title'        => "myDefaultString", // set false to total remove
      'description'  => "MyDefaultDescription.", // set false to total remove // set false to total remove
      'url'         => false, // Set null for using Url::current(), set false to total remove
      'type'        => false,
      'site_name'   => false,
      'images'      => [],
  ],

  ], 'twitter' => [ /*

• The default values to be used by the twitter cards generator. */ 'defaults' => [ //'card' => 'summary', //'site' => '@LuizVinicius73', ], ], ]; `

[isneezy]

I don't know what exactly you are trying to achieve here. Do you want to disable/remove the default title on entire site or just for your controller/controller method?

[iwasingh]

Yes, in a certain way, i want disable/remove the default title for my controller/controller method.

[isneezy]

As the docs says to set the default title to false if you do not want it, so the simple way of doing that is to override it in your controller.

/**  Display the specified resource. **/
public function show(Request $request){
  config(['seotools.meta.defaults.title' => false]);
  $this->seo()->setTitle("Your title");
  return view('your.view');
}

Update If it is necessary that the controller always have to hide the title by default, simply move the configuration line to the constructor

[iwasingh]

Problem solved, thank you!

[stefkes]

If I may make a suggestion - the way this is explain in the docs is not very clear. "default" usually means the value that's used when none is explicitly set. The fact that it's appended to a value unless explicitly disabled is a little strange.

Great plugin though!