Meta Description tag

Meta Description tag

Wednesday 23 June 2004 3:05:00 am - 8 replies

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Ekkehard Dörre

Wednesday 23 June 2004 3:19:52 am

Hi Dries,
you can change page_head.tpl
make a new class with title and 1 textfield (not xmltext) or take some text (not xml) from eg. the product class:


{*?template charset=latin1?*}
{default enable_help=true() enable_link=true()}

{let name=Path
     path=$module_result.path
     reverse_path=array()}
  {section show=is_set($module_result.title_path)}
    {set path=$module_result.title_path}
  {/section}
  {section loop=$:path}
    {set reverse_path=$:reverse_path|array_prepend($:item)}
  {/section}

{set-block scope=root variable=site_title}
{section loop=$Path:reverse_path}{$:item.text|wash}{delimiter} / {/delimiter}{/section} - {$site.title|wash}
{/set-block}

{/let}
 {let titel_meta_list=fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $DesignKeys:used.node,
                                                          limit, 1,
                                                         sort_by, array( array( priority , false()) ),
                                                          class_filter_type, include,
                                                          class_filter_array, array( your_class eg. product ) ) )}
    <title>{$site_title}{section name=Titel_Meta loop=$titel_meta_list} - {$Titel_Meta:item.name|wash}{/section}</title>
      {/let}





    {section show=and(is_set($#Header:extra_data),is_array($#Header:extra_data))}
      {section name=ExtraData loop=$#Header:extra_data}
      {$:item}
      {/section}
    {/section}

    {* check if we need a http-equiv refresh *}
    {section show=$site.redirect}
    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="{$site.redirect.timer}; URL={$site.redirect.location}" />

    {/section}

    {section name=HTTP loop=$site.http_equiv}
    <meta http-equiv="{$HTTP:key|wash}" content="{$HTTP:item|wash}" />

    {/section}

    {section name=meta loop=$site.meta}

    {section show=eq("description",$meta:key)}

     <meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}{section name=Titel_Meta loop=fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $DesignKeys:used.node,
                                                          limit, 1,
                                                         sort_by, array( array( priority , false()) ),
                                                          class_filter_type, include,
                                                          class_filter_array, array( your_class eg. product ) ) )}, {attribute_view_gui attribute=$:item.object.data_map.description}{/section}" />
  {section-else}
  {section show=eq("keywords",$meta:key)}

     <meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}{section name=Titel_Meta loop=fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $DesignKeys:used.node,
                                                          limit, 1,
                                                         sort_by, array( array( priority , false()) ),
                                                          class_filter_type, include,
                                                          class_filter_array, array( your_class eg. product ) ) )}, {$:item.name|wash}{/section}" />
  {section-else}
    <meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}" />
    {/section}
    {/section}
    {/section}

    <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
    <meta name="generator" content="eZ publish" />

{section show=$enable_link}
    {include uri="design:link.tpl" enable_help=$enable_help enable_link=$enable_link}
{/section}

{/default}

it isn't elegant because of 3 queries, but it works.
It is the extension of http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/search_engine_optimisation_more_efficient_use_of_the_title_tag

Greetings ekke

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Dries Samyn

Wednesday 23 June 2004 4:50:47 am

thanks for the response. I created a meta data class, and this works great.
Only thing that isn't so good is that there is a linebreak in the HTML before it outputs the text. I think most spiders and bots require the meta data to be in one line.

I suppose I have to wait for the {strip} operator ;)

Ekkehard Dörre

Wednesday 23 June 2004 8:02:18 am

Hi,

I've no linebreak in tag, only between:

 <meta name="description" content="blabla , blabla " />

      
      
     <meta name="keywords" content="blabla blabla " />

You can strip the lines and spaces between the tags, but then the template is hard to read for humans.
Perhaps there is linebreack in your input?

Greetings, ekke

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Dries Samyn

Wednesday 23 June 2004 8:22:01 am

Strange that. I have

<meta name="description" content="
blah lala" />

The code I use is

<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{section name=Titel_Meta loop=fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $DesignKeys:used.node,
	                                                         limit, 1,
	                                                         sort_by, array( array( priority , false()) ),
	                                                         class_filter_type, include,
	                                                         class_filter_array, array( 'csa_meta_data' ) ) )}{attribute_view_gui attribute=$:item.object.data_map.meta_description}{/section}" />

With meta_description being a standard text field with no line breaks.

Thanks for helping me out on this one btw!

Ekkehard Dörre

Wednesday 23 June 2004 2:55:57 pm

Funny,
Turn in yoursiteaccess/site.ini.append.php template debug on:

[DebugSettings]
DebugOutput=enabled

[TemplateSettings]
Debug=enabled

And look where {attribute_view_gui attribute=$:item.object.data_map.description} is built. I think, there is the linebreak, but I don't know.

Happy template digging ;-)

ekke

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Rinze Cats

Wednesday 30 June 2004 3:13:52 am

I use the following code to display the metadata from the metadataarray, unless the current page has a specific description or keywords (which are simply attributes of my article class.

I am currently experiencing problems only with the description metadata field. I think this is a bug

{section name=meta loop=$site.meta}
{switch match=$meta:key|wash}
{case match=description}
{section show=is_set($current_node.data_map.description)}
{section show=ne($current_node.data_map.description.content, "")}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$current_node.data_map.description.content}"/>

{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{/case}
{case match=keywords}
{section show=is_set($current_node.data_map.keywords)}
{section show=ne($current_node.data_map.keywords.content, "")}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$current_node.data_map.keywords.content}"/>

{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{/case}
{case}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/case}
{/switch}
{/section}

Pål Messenlien

Thursday 24 November 2005 3:30:01 pm

I know this is a old post. But it helped me getting what i wanted. I used the code Rinze posted, thanks alot! The reason im replying is that i found the reason for the description bug. When your checking code from the start page for example. You got a meta tagged that looked like this 

meta name="description" content="Object(ezxmltext)"

The reason for this is that your standing in a folder, and default the folder class got a xml field called description. The workaround i found is to just use another name for the description field. I also had to use $node instead of $current_node, might be because im using a 3.6.* site? Anyway the working code for my page_head.tpl looks like this. 

{* DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Use an override template instead. *}
{*?template charset=latin1?*}
{default enable_help=true() enable_link=true()}

{let name=Path
     path=$module_result.path
     reverse_path=array()}
  {section show=is_set($module_result.title_path)}
    {set path=$module_result.title_path}
  {/section}
  {section loop=$:path}
    {set reverse_path=$:reverse_path|array_prepend($:item)}
  {/section}

{set-block scope=root variable=site_title}
{section loop=$Path:reverse_path}{$:item.text|wash}{delimiter} / {/delimiter}{/section} - {$site.title|wash}
{/set-block}

{/let}

    <title>{$site_title}</title>

    {section show=and(is_set($#Header:extra_data),is_array($#Header:extra_data))}
      {section name=ExtraData loop=$#Header:extra_data}
      {$:item}
      {/section}
    {/section}

    {* check if we need a http-equiv refresh *}
    {section show=$site.redirect}
    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="{$site.redirect.timer}; URL={$site.redirect.location}" />

    {/section}

    {section name=HTTP loop=$site.http_equiv}
    <meta http-equiv="{$HTTP:key|wash}" content="{$HTTP:item|wash}" />

    {/section}

    {section name=meta loop=$site.meta}
{switch match=$meta:key|wash}

{case match=description}
{section show=is_set($node.data_map.ndescription)}
{section show=ne($node.data_map.ndescription.content, "")}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$node.data_map.ndescription.content}"/>

{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{/case}
{case match=keywords}
{section show=is_set($node.data_map.keywords)}
{section show=ne($node.data_map.keywords.content, "")}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$node.data_map.keywords.content}"/>

{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{section-else}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/section}
{/case}

{case}
<meta name="{$meta:key|wash}" content="{$meta:item|wash}"/>

{/case}
{/switch}
{/section}

    <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
    <meta name="generator" content="eZ publish" />

{section show=$enable_link}
    {include uri="design:link.tpl" enable_help=$enable_help enable_link=$enable_link}
{/section}

{/default}

Hope its usefull for someone.

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manu let

Wednesday 16 January 2008 2:21:11 am

THE FOLLOWING IS WORKING FINE:

Insert custom metatags in the folder's and article class.

Created the custom attributes for meta_description and meta_keys as text field on the folder class...make sure they are not set up as information collector or it will NOT WORK!
I have then the following Page_Head.tpl

<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />

What i am doing wrong? Please help, i have been on this for 10 days now and seriously struggling!!!

{* DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Use an override template instead. *}
{*?template charset=latin1?*}
{default enable_help=true() enable_link=true()}

.. snip


{let node_metas=fetch(content, node, hash(node_id, $module_result.node_id))}

 <meta name="description" content="{$node_metas.object.data_map.meta_description.content}" />
 <meta name="keywords" content="{$node_metas.object.data_map.meta_keys.content}" />

 {/section}
{/let}

.. snip

{/default}

And what is created is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB" lang="en-GB">
<head>        
                      

 <meta name="description" content="my description" />
 <meta name="keywords" content="my keywords" />

    <title>Our Team / Home - Website Interface</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en-GB" />
    <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
    <meta name="generator" content="NeatNet" />

Bonne chance!
Regards,
EL

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