Magento 1.9. Need help with product name

Question

I'm trying to get product name in title tag on catalog-product-view presentation in page/block/html/head.php file. Tried both this:

$product = Mage::registry('current_product');
if($product && $product->getId()){
            $title = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $product->getName() . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix');
        }

and this

$currentUrl = Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
        $url = Mage::getSingleton('core/url')->parseUrl($currentUrl);
        $path = $url->getPath();
        $oRewrite = Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
            ->loadByRequestPath(ltrim($path,'/'));
        $pId = $oRewrite->getProductId();

        if($pId > 0) {
            $title = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $pId  . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix');
        }

both not working. Except this I've another modificators for title tag such as category or (for home page) default title.

Any help or explanation, why listed above snippets didn't work will be appreceated. Thanks in advance.

UPD:

Moved all logic into themename/template/page/html/head.phtml with following rules:

<?php
        $routeName = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getRouteName();
        $identifier = Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier();
        $category = Mage::registry('current_category');
        $parentCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category->getParentId());
        $product = Mage::registry('current_product');
        if ($category && !$product) {
            if($parentCategory !== "Default Category") {
                echo '<title>' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $parentCategory->getName() . ' ' . $category->getName() . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix') . '</title>';
            } else {
                echo '<title>' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $category->getName() . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix') . '</title>';
            }
        }
        if($product) {
            echo '<title>' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $product->getName() . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix') . '</title>';
        }
        if($routeName == 'cms' && $identifier == 'home') {
            echo '<title>' . $this->getTitle() . '</title>';
        }
?>

But still at catalog-product-view page get only category title.

UPD2: Probably here is another possible way to get result I need - sql query to massive update products meta-title? Final result I need to get is following string for categories: "default shop name" + "|" + "parent category name" + "category/brand name"

and for products "default shop name" + "|" + "product name"

Answer 1

As you want to change title for only categories and product pages, then instead of /app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php you should override below files

app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Category/View.php app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/View.php

In this file probably you may need to add an else statement to

if ($title) {
   $headBlock->setTitle($title);
}

Under _prepareLayout layout function like below

if ($title) {
   $headBlock->setTitle($title);
}
else
{
   $headBlock->setTitle('Title New '. $product->getName()); //you can change value in setTitle() according to your needs
}

Answer 2

Update the title in head.phtml (/app/design/frontend/default/Your-theme/template/page/html/head.phtml)

add

 <?php if($product = Mage::registry('current_product')){
     $metaTitle = $product->getName();
     }
     else{
        $metaTitle = $this->getTitle();
     }
    ?>

replace

<title><?php echo $this->getTitle() ?></title>

with

  <title><?php echo $metaTitle ?></title>

Answer 3

Also you can try below:-

extend below file:

/app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php

in local folder:-

/app/code/local/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php

and use below code according you logic

public function setTitle($title)
{
    if($current_product = Mage::registry('current_product')){
        $proName = $current_product->getName();
    }
    if($proName){
    $this->_data['title'] = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $proName
        . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix');
    } else {
    $this->_data['title'] = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix') . ' ' . $title
        . ' ' . Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix');   
    }
    return $this;
}

Hope that may help you.