Highlighting a Menu Item by Post Name

With the help of a couple of users, my last two questions were highlighting a custom menu item through its ID.

Now I’m trying to combine the code of the following two functions to make it work by Post Name:

Add highlighting to new Admin Dashboard Menu Item

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'create_menu' );
add_action( 'admin_head-post.php', 'wpse_58567_highlight_menu_item' );

function create_menu() {
    $settings_page = add_menu_page(
                                   'Edit_Post_69', 
                                   'Edit_Post_69', 
                                   'add_users', 
                                   '/post.php?post=69&action=edit', 
                                   '', 
                                   get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/editicon.png', 
                                   2
                                  );
}

function wpse_58567_highlight_menu_item() {
    global $post;

    if( 69 != $post->ID )
        return;
?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
            $('#toplevel_page_post-post-69-action-edit').removeClass('wp-not-current-submenu').addClass('current');
            $('#toplevel_page_post-post-69-action-edit').find('a:last').addClass('current');
        });     
    </script>
<?php
}

and….

Convert post name into post ID

$post = get_page_by_title( $post_name, OBJECT, 'post' );
echo $post->ID;

I am now trying to combine them so that I can specify a post name instead of a post ID, can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Attention to the use of get_page_by_title parameters.

And also to the use of the Heredoc PHP syntax.

$the_post_title="The Portfolio";

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpse_59050_add_menu' );
add_action( 'admin_head-post.php', 'wpse_59050_highlight_menu_item' );

function wpse_59050_add_menu() 
{
    global $the_post_title;
    $our_page = get_page_by_title( $the_post_title );

    $settings_page = add_menu_page( 'Edit '.$our_page->post_title, 'Edit '.$our_page->post_title, 'add_users', '/post.php?post=".$our_page->ID."&action=edit', '', '', 2);
}

function wpse_59050_highlight_menu_item()
{
    global $the_post_title, $post;

    if( !is_object( $post ) )
        return;

    $our_page = get_page_by_title( $the_post_title );

    if( $our_page->ID != $post->ID )
        return;

    echo <<<HTML
        <script type="text/javascript">
            jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
                $('#toplevel_page_post-post-{$our_page->ID}-action-edit').removeClass('wp-not-current-submenu').addClass('current');
                $('#toplevel_page_post-post-{$our_page->ID}-action-edit').find('a:last').addClass('current');
            });     
        </script>
HTML;
}

Result:
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Tags: admin-menu

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