cms page title problem

echoing variable in page title after using strip_tags

[stevenjm]

hey,
fairly new to php and learning as I go. Am working with an open source cms and doing mods to make it more se friendly. (titles and url's)
having trouble with page titles - have dug around code looking for correct variable with no luck (has heaps of includes).
for the time being until I have more time to dig around I found a function that when placed in the title tag gives the text I am after but its wrapped in html tags.(the function is for a breadcrumb trail)

function I found with correct text for title is named:
pathos_theme_showModule("navigationmodule","Breadcrumb")

I thought if I assigned it to a variable and then did strip_tags of variable string and echoed the results I would get the desired results but no such luck.
placing the function title() within the <title> tags still gives me the text wrapped in html tags for some reason
ie. - the title is shown in the browser as <a>accommodation</a > - <b>suburb</b> or something similar just the same as before I did the strip_tags.

function, obviously incorrect, is as follows:
function title()
{
$test = pathos_theme_showModule("navigationmodule","Breadcrumb");
echo strip_tags($test);

}

any help much appreciated. I seem to be doing something wrong in assigning the functions resulting string to a variable.

[ergophobe]

Usually your best bet is to go to the forum for the CMS in question. That stuff's just too specific.

As for your last question

function addBlahBlah($val)
{
return "Blah Blah " . val;
}

$string = "something";
$blahblah_string = addBlahBlah($string);

[stevenjm]

thanks. the cms in question is exponent and I cannot find relevant support to the title problem anywhere.
btw - its a great little cms!

If I have a function that outputs a breadcrum trail including its html tags should I not be able to just assign that functions string output to a variable
ie

$var = breadcrumb_function();

//and then use

$title = strip_tags($var);

//to strip the html tags from the string

echo $title;

?

[ergophobe]

Yeah, that should strip the tags. I have no idea why it's not working for you, but I suspect that the CMS is inserting tags later in the process.