[SOLVED] Dynamic page titles and meta tags

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:13 pm

What is the way to add dynamic page titles and mata tags from a new module and/ore single file in root?

I noticed in previous release something was changed abouth that.

Thanks in advance wHiTeHaT Wink

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:25 pm

I used the files in
includes/nukeSEO/dh

as examples on how to create my own on a per module basis. Each page or category of your module must have a unique id in the URL for the default dh system to work. URL's like
modules.php?name=SomeModule&file=somefile
are a little harder but there's a work-around that worked for me on the nukeSEO forums.
Moving forward from Dynamic Titles
http://nukeseo.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=378

similar setup to the nukeSEO sitemap or mSearch if you have used those...

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:29 pm

Load the block nukeSEOdh and you will then be able to control how the title is generated and override the meta tags.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:33 pm

the titles for it are generated by a function within a class:

getPageTitle();
getPageTag();

i think in this case for me it would best to exclude the dynamic title/tags generation in ravennuke when ever this module or pages are loaded

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:34 pm

i'm still alittle confused , it seems the dynamic titles are generated from there own classes per module.
This means if there doesnt excist a class for a new added module , you must manualy enter this data into the db , using the nukeSEOdh block , correct?

I wonder if i'm forced to use nukeSEOdh? ( it seems it do).

i think it is a bad idea , but respecting the authors work , aloth of resource is used to generate or fetch this data.

I'm not happy with it Sad

in my point of view it would have been better to generate or fetch this data on a $link base , so for each $link with option to exclude links
$link
$ex_link

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:40 pm

wHiTeHaT wrote:

.....This means if there doesnt excist a class for a new added module , you must manualy enter this data into the db , using the nukeSEOdh block , correct?

If you only want module level overrides then no extra files are needed. nukeDH will default them to
custom module title- sitename
(if i remember right), or you can override for the entire module.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:21 pm

i'm not content with that , i require a full override.
It is to bad the default way is changed ( if i'm correct).
As you might now i work on oscommerce 3 , and finaly succeed to get the pagetitles meta tag's and keywords for all content as it it is generated in oscommerce , into nuke.

with 0 edits to (raven)nuke files , and only using the custom_mainfile.php
synced login/logout.

I spended weeks to find out the correct way , and feel a bit upset to find out i have to edit core files.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:39 pm

I'm not sure why you would have to edit core files?
You can override the function on a per module basis. Not familiar with OSCommerce, but you would just create a file
includes/nukeSEO/dh/dhOSCommerce.php

which would control how the OSCommerce module get's handled by nukeDH (where OSCommerce = name of your your module)

something like this but substitute the proper tables for OSCommerce (this was a copy of encyclopedia)

Code:




/************************************************************************/


/* nukeSEO


/* http://www.nukeSEO.com


/* Copyright 2008 by Kevin Guske


/************************************************************************/


/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */


/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */


/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.       */


/************************************************************************/


class dhOSCommerce extends dhclass {


   function dhOSCommerce () {


      global $prefix;


      $this->content_id        = 'tid';


      $this->content_table     = $prefix.'_encyclopedia_text';


      $this->contentTitleArray = array('title');


      $this->contentDescArray  = array('text');


      $this->contentKeysArray  = array('title','text');


      $this->cat_id            = 'eid';


      $this->cat_table         = $prefix.'_encyclopedia';


      $this->catTitleArray     = array('title');


      $this->catDescArray      = array('description');


      $this->catKeysArray      = array('title','description');


    // If pending content is stored in the same table, inactive content, private content, etc.


    $this->activeWhere       = '';


  }


  function getContentID() {


    global $tid;


    return $tid; 


  }


  function setContentID() {


      global $tid, $dhID;


      $tid = $dhID;


   }


  function getCatID() { 


    global $eid;


    return $eid; 


  }


   function setCatID() { 


      global $eid, $dhCat;


      $eid = $dhCat;


   }


}

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:48 pm

yes your right abouth that Spas , however the way i intregrated oscommerce to nuke isnt like a real module.

I have created a module called oscommerce as a pin-point for nuke , but to respect also oscommerce code , it's 'content'-files are located in the root of nuke.
The only file in the oscommerce module what can be entered is it's index.php.
From there it refers to it's other files.
-account.php
-checkout.php
-download.php
-images.php
-info.php
-products.php
-redirect.php
-search.php
-shop.php (represents index.php)
each of these files have titles generated etc.
So beside the current methode to create the dynamic titles etc etc... this would have been an issue anyway , but one i could resolve quickly.

So a url like http://demov3.osc2nuke.com/modules.php?name=oscommerce&file=XXXX doesnt excist.
only: http://demov3.osc2nuke.com/modules.php?name=oscommerce&file=index

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:45 pm

looking very nice... and yes and I see you have some challenges ahead since it isn't passed through modules.php
there may be some options in
includes/nukeSEO/dh/dhDefault.php

by overriding the default getHEAD function when needed.

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:53 pm

i checked the includes/nukeSEO/dh/dhDefault.php

but there i see only a complete quoted file , if i try to use it as i think i should , it doesnt work.

Code:




<?php


/************************************************************************/


/* nukeSEO


/* http://www.nukeSEO.com


/* Copyright 2008 by Kevin Guske


/************************************************************************/


/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */


/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */


/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.       */


/************************************************************************/


class dhoscommerce extends dhclass {


   function dhoscommerce () {


#      global $prefix;


#      $this->content_id        = 'fid';


#      $this->content_table     = $prefix.'_seo_feed';


#      $this->contentTitleArray = array('title');


#      $this->contentDescArray  = array('desc');


#      $this->contentKeysArray  = array('title','desc');


    // If pending content is stored in the same table, inactive content, private content, etc.


#    $this->activeWhere       = 'active = 1';


  }


  // Override default getHEAD function 


  function getHEAD() {


         $meta['title'][1] = $name . ' - '.$sitename . ' - ' . $slogan;


         $meta['Content-Script-Type'] = array('http-equiv','text/javascript',0);


         $meta['Content-Style-Type'] = array('http-equiv','text/css',0);


         $meta['Expires'] = array('http-equiv','0',0);


         $meta['RESOURCE-TYPE'] = array('name','DOCUMENT',0);


         $meta['DISTRIBUTION'] = array('name','GLOBAL',0);


         $meta['AUTHOR'] = array('name',$sitename,0);


         $meta['COPYRIGHT'] = array('name','Copyright (c) by '.$sitename,0);


         $meta['DESCRIPTION'] = array('name',$slogan,0);


         $meta['KEYWORDS'] = array('name','CMS, cms, Best CMS, best cms, Raven, RavenNuke, Raven Nuke, raven, ravennuke, raven nuke, scripts, PHP, php, MySQL, mysql, SQL, sql, News, news, Technology, technology, Headlines, headlines, Nuke, nuke, PHP-Nuke, phpnuke, php-nuke, Linux, linux, Windows, windows, Software, software, Download, download, Downloads, downloads, Free, FREE, free, Community, community, Forum, forum, Forums, forums, Bulletin, bulletin, Board, board, Boards, boards, Survey, survey, Comment, comment, Comments, comments, Portal, portal, ODP, odp, Open, open, Open Source, OpenSource, Opensource, opensource, open source, Free Software, FreeSoftware, Freesoftware, free software, GNU, gnu, GPL, gpl, License, license, Unix, UNIX, *nix, unix, Database, DataBase, Blogs, blogs, Blog, blog, database, Programming, programming, Web Site, web site, Weblog, WebLog, weblog, ',0);


         $meta['REVISIT-AFTER'] = array('name','1 DAYS',0);


         $meta['RATING'] = array('name','GENERAL',0);


  } 


}

If this file should work as you would expect it to do ( changed the class name for the module)

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Just a suggestion...since osCommerce isn't integrated as a module and PHP classes seem to be a challenge, why not use the page title and meta tag generation functions in osCommerce?

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:07 pm

these are the one i use.
But i not use oscommerce's header/footer but raven's.

but what abouth why above not work?

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:52 am

If you are not porting oscommerce as a module, then you cannot realistically expect it to work as some native RN functions might not be available.
If you are just using RN's header/footer to wrap oscommerce you are probably missing vital components like mainfile.php
As kguske already mentioned, you might be better retaining RN header/footer to give oscommerce the appearence of RN but just use the oscommerce meta tag generation.
Either that or use oscommerce as a stand alone, tweak the theme to match your RN theme and build a simple bridge to share user data.

registered · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:20 am

wHiTeHaT wrote:

It is to bad the default way is changed ( if i'm correct).

Not correct! Sort-of... Yes, it is changed from using my Dynamic Titles script to nukeSEO DH, but the concept is exactly the same. If you were to add a new module the old way, you would have had to update the includes/dynamic_titles.php script to include whatever overrides you wanted for the titles because the data must be pulled from the module's tables in order to be "dynamic". Wink

So, instead of modifying this script, you create a class for your module.

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:58 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

If you are not porting oscommerce as a module, then you cannot realistically expect it to work as some native RN functions might not be available.
If you are just using RN's header/footer to wrap oscommerce you are probably missing vital components like mainfile.php
As kguske already mentioned, you might be better retaining RN header/footer to give oscommerce the appearence of RN but just use the oscommerce meta tag generation.
Either that or use oscommerce as a stand alone, tweak the theme to match your RN theme and build a simple bridge to share user data.

Al the RN functions work as it should do , the point is ,oscommerce uses it's own dynamic titles and keywords.
So if i goto a product , it generate keywords and if has tags for this product.

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:46 pm

this is the result of the old methode (default nuke way) , works as expected:

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:04 pm

a change is made to the header.php to load default nuke standard for the oscommerce part.
and if it isnt part of oscommerce , load the dh class

Problem solved.

registered · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:09 pm

I am glad you were able to solve this.