Change node "label" so that it's called a title like everything else in the template file (and all other template files)

Created on 11 March 2013, about 12 years ago

Updated 18 March 2025, 22 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Look at this code, this is an inconsistent mess:

 <?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
  <?php if (!$page): ?>
  <h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>><a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php print $label; ?></a></h2>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

Proposed resolution

I understand the need to call the label() method on the node object instead of directly referencing the $node->title, but I don't understand why that needs to trickle all the way down to the theme layer. Can we please be consistent with our variable names and call this a title? We can preprocess it in, or do it as part of the Twig __to_string() method on rendering a node.title but in the template file we should really be calling this a title.

Alternatively, we could rename everything else in these templates that contains "title" into a label. label_prefix, label_suffix, label_attributes.

Remaining tasks

- make our templates consistent

User interface changes

- none

API changes

- none

📌 Task

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

node system

Created by

🇺🇸United States jenlampton

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Comment 22 days ago →
🇦🇺Australia acbramley
This issue has gone stale for almost 10 years.

I'm actually somewhat against this change, label is a consistent Drupalism applied to all entity types. Title is not. E.g in #1939224: Change block "label" so that it's called a title like everything else in the template file (and all other template files) → blocks don't have a title, they have a block description or label.

If anything, the title_prefix/suffix/attributes should be the ones to change?
Comment 21 days ago →
🇨🇦Canada xmacinfo Canada
To get more developers on Drupal, some "Drupalism" needs to go.

Developers are typically giving a name to the things they create.

- Name of the block
- Name of the variable
- Name of the function
- Name of the field

A label is a tag attached to an item.

So either we continue putting Drupal in a corner with its "Drupalism" or we adopt more generalized standards.

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