Trying to access 'title' attribute via getEntryTableAttributeHtml. Any idea how?

Question

I am trying to get access to the attribute title using this, but does not work. If I switch out 'title' for slug, uri, etc. It works. But not title. Anyway I can do this?

public function getEntryTableAttributeHtml(EntryModel $entry, $attribute)
{    
    switch ($attribute) {
        case 'title':
            return $entry->title . ': Something appended to title';
            break;
    }
}

Update

Added in return $entry->title . ': Something appended to title'; to the case to show I want to append something to the title.

I want to be able to just append some text, icon, or html to the titles in the entries list in the CP.

Answer 1

If you wanna change the title one way is override the __toString() method on your model.

/**
 * @return string
 */
public function __toString()
{
    return (string)$this->name;
}

If you wanna chage the status icon next to the title you can override the getElementQueryStatusCondition function on your ElementType class

public function getElementQueryStatusCondition(DbCommand $query, $status)
{}

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