MX Title Control - Not working with EE 2.8.0?

Question

I've just set up a new testing environment and a brand new copy if EE 2.8 for testing new Add-Ons. After installing the latest MX Title Control (2.8.4) i can't seem to get it to work.

I've never had any problems with MX Title Control with older versions of EE.

Anyone experiencing the same problem?

Answer 1

The awesome Eric Lamb helped me track down the fix for this problem. It isn't related to the CP URL change. It's a problem in the addon file.

Change line 326 from:

$out = '//  THIS IS TEST'; 

to this:

$out = '';

Answer 2

I was able to fix the plugin by updating the ext.mx_title_control.php file on line 333 and 338. I replaced the following code:

element('channel_id', $get)

with

element('/cp/content_publish/entry_form?channel_id', $get)

Answer 3

There are a lot of Javascript related issues surfacing with 2.8, and I believe MX Title Control is highly JS-dependent, so this isn't surprising.

You might try applying the patch posted on this Bug Tracker: https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/20165

Answer 4

This thread is a few months old, but the solutions provided so far have not worked for me. Until MX Title Control is updated for 2.8.1 (it still isn't as of posting), a simple fix to modify the "Title" and "URL Title" labels is to simply add some JS within the "instructions" field of any field within that channel's field group:

<script>// We're using this field's instructions to hijack labels via JS at DOM-ready
$(function() {

    // Make sure that this is the publish form (just for a level of safety)
    if (!EE.publish) return;
    // Set your channel's field group here (just another level of safety)
    if (EE.publish.field_group == 4) {

        // "Title" Label
        var titleLabel = $("#sub_hold_field_title").prev("label")
        var titleMarkup = titleLabel.html();
        titleLabel.html(titleMarkup.replace('Title','Custom Title'));

        // "URL Title" Label
        var URLTitleLabel = $("#sub_hold_field_url_title").prev("label")
        var URLTitleMarkup = URLTitleLabel.html();
        URLTitleLabel.html(URLTitleMarkup.replace('URL Title','Custom URL Title'));

    } else return;
});</script>

It's less than elegant, but it works for now.

Answer 5

In case anyone else stumbles on this looking for an answer, when upgrading isn't possible, change line 328:

parse_str(parse_url(@$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_QUERY), $get);

to

parse_str(parse_url(parse_url(@$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_QUERY), PHP_URL_QUERY), $get);

The URLs in 2.8 add an additional "?" to the query string (e.g. "/system/index.php?/cp/content_publish/entry_form?channel_id=22") because of this the parse_url function doesn't properly parse the URL and thus creates issues for the rest of the cp_js_end function.

Also worth noting is that line 432 should also be updated to work with the new input field format (i.e. the removal of the ID attribute).

change line 432 from:

$out .= '$("#title").attr("maxlength", "'.$max_title.'");';

to

$out .= '$("[name=\'title\']").attr("maxlength", "'.$max_title.'");';