Print Parent page title

I’ve been wondering this myself. I just found this article and it works like a charm!

https://expatrick.com/2007/04/14/wordpress-name-of-parent-page/

<?php if (is_page()) {
  if (!empty($post->post_parent)) {
   $extradata = $wpdb->get_row("select post_title from wp_posts where ID = " . $post->post_parent);
   echo $extradata->post_title;
  } else {
   echo $post->post_title;
  }
 } else {
  echo "your text here";
}
?>

Hi!
I’ve found that :
<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?>
Good luck!

I was not able to print the name of a parentpage using:

$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);

IS this doable using a small line of code ?

$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);

should work.

I used code suggested by hvaninah in a 2.7 version and it worked like magic! Thanks

or how about just <?php echo get_the_title($post->post_parent);?>

Awesome! Thanks bcnewmedia! That did exactly what I needed. :j