I want change page heading position - joomla

Question

In Joomla Page heading showing inside of an article I want to change the position of page heading, is it possible to customize page heading position?
I had included following code in template/protostar/index.php
<?php if ($this->params->get('show_page_heading', 1)) : ?>
<div class="page-header">
<h1> <?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('page_heading')); ?> </h1>
</div>
<?php endif;
if (!empty($this->item->pagination) && $this->item->pagination && !$this->item->paginationposition && $this->item->paginationrelative)
{
echo $this->item->pagination;
}
?>

Answer 1

What you can do:
Just update one of the css files in the correct template to display the header correctly. If the header should only be reformatted on some pages and not all then you should be using different templates.
What you should do:
Otherwise (if you want to change the php instead) you can override the components/com_content/views/article/default.php using the standard joomla override method.
You can do both the above if necessary.
You should not need to override the index.php of your template in order to do this. However if you really want to i would use the code
$option = JRequest::getCmd('option');
$view = JRequest::getCmd('view');
if ($option=="com_content" && $view=="article") {
$ids = explode(':',JRequest::getString('id'));
$article_id = $ids[0];
$article =& JTable::getInstance("content");
$article->load($article_id);
echo $article->get("title");
}
Sorry if you want more you need to give more :)
PS. I am on joomla 2.5 but i know that for joomla 3 it is more or less the same thing.
Sources: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=525350
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_the_output_from_the_Joomla!_core