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I have from time to time needed to show a page's title within the content as a heading. The controls that come with mojoPortal don't really allow for this but I have come up with a handy little control that will show the Page Title on the page and allow you to choose how the text is rendered.

To get started, create two files; PageTitle.ascx and PageTitle.ascx.cs. Place both of these files in the <siteroot>\Controls\Custom directory (Note: You will have to create the "custom" directory). The code for the files is as follows:

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="PageTitle.ascx.cs" ClassName="PageTitle.ascx" Inherits="Controls_PageTitle" %>
<asp:literal ID="litPageTitle" runat="server" />

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using mojoPortal.Web;
using mojoPortal.Web.UI;
using mojoPortal.Web.Framework;
using mojoPortal.Business;
using mojoPortal.Business.WebHelpers;

public partial class Controls_PageTitle : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
	protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
	{
		PopulateControls();
	}

	private void PopulateControls()
	{
		PageSettings currentPage = CacheHelper.GetCurrentPage();
		if(currentPage == null){ return; }
		if(currentPage.PageTitle == "")
			litPageTitle.Text = currentPage.PageName;
			else
				litPageTitle.Text = currentPage.PageTitle;
	}
}

To use the control, place the following in your layout.master directly after <%@ Master...

<%@ Register Src="~/Controls/custom/PageTitle.ascx" TagName="PageTitle" TagPrefix="cc1" %>

Now place the following where you want the Page Title to appear in the layout.master.

<cc1:PageTitle id="PageTitle1" runat="server" />

Come back soon to see a full description of how this all works.
I have decided not to describe the full functionality of this control as it is fairly self-explanatory and because Joe Audette has implemented this functionality into mojoPortal. You can use the <portal:PageTitle control after the next release.

Happy mojo-ing.