kingBT wrote:
Here is the patch for meta description & keywords:
-native J1.5 & J1.0.X;
-meta description & keywords for latestx (default_ex), listcat (default_ex), showcat (default_ex) & view.

This is a very anemic patch but does the work.

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Thx a lot!

Can this be taken AS-IS or does it require further work?

AS-IS... BUT I`ll make improvements if I learn more...

kingBT wrote:
AS-IS... BUT I`ll make improvements if I learn more...

Perfect! Thx a lot. This is the last 'new feature' I will commit.

Any bugs you find and are able to fix during the RC1 period can easily by made.

Thx!

ok dumb question, but is this for joomla 1.0x or just j1.5

amorosso wrote:
ok dumb question, but is this for joomla 1.0x or just j1.5

Both and will be in the 1.0.5RC1 build

rickert wrote:
how about this:

Code:

//set page title if on Mambo 4.5.2+ // if view = flat and first message on page OR if view = threaded if (($view == "flat" && floor($mmm-1/$limit) == ($mmm-1)/$limit) || $view == "threaded") {    // BUILD PAGETITLE    // Filter Re: from the subject of the first message on the page    $metasubj = str_replace("Re:","",$fmessage->subject);    //Set pagetitle with subject followed by sitename    $mainframe->setPageTitleAlias($metasubj. ' - ' . $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename']);    // BUILD DESCRIPTION METATAG    //Strip bbcode, newlines and returns from messagetext     $pattern = array('/[b](.*?)[/b]/is','/[i](.*?)[/i]/is','/[u](.*?)[/u]/is','/[img(.*?)[/img]/is','/[url](.*?)[/url]/is','/[url=(.*?)](.*?)[/url]/is','/[nr]/');    $replace = array('$1','$1','$1',' ','$1','$2',' ');    $metapost = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, substr($fmessage->message,0,400));    // Set description to stripped subject and messagetext    $mainframe->addMetaTag( 'description' , $metasubj . ' - ' . $metapost);    //BUILD KEYWORDS METATAG    //initialize metakeys    $mosConfig_MetaKeys = '';    // Strip any character from subject and messagetext except a-z, A-Z and 0-9    $metapost = preg_replace('/[^a-z .A-Z0-9s]/',' ', $metapost);    $metasubj = preg_replace('/[^a-z .A-Z0-9s]/',' ', $metasubj);    //Build array with suggested keywords and build array with keywords to be ignored    $keyarray = explode (' ' , $metasubj . ' ' . $metapost);    $search_ignore = array();    @include "$mosConfig_absolute_path/language/$mosConfig_lang.ignore.php";    foreach ($keyarray as $keytest)    {       $keytest = str_replace('.' , '', strtolower(trim($keytest)));       // Add to keywords metatag if length > 3 AND not to be ignored       if ($keytest && strlen($keytest)>3 && !in_array( $keytest, $search_ignore ))           $metakey .= $keytest . ', ';    }    if ($metakey)        $mainframe->addMetaTag( 'keywords' , substr ($metakey, 0, -2)); }

By the way:

The setPageTitleAlias function is a function I created earlier on for my Joomla content
It simply sets the pagetitle to the string that is passed (in stead of adding the sitename in front like setpagetitle does). I copied and modified setpagetitle (from joomla.php). Maybe you should solve this in another way.

Code:

// setPagetitleAlias - function sets the title of the  // page to tile_alias  function setPagetitleAlias( $title_alias=null ) {      if (@$GLOBALS['mosConfig_pagetitles']) {           $title_alias = trim( htmlspecialchars( $title_alias ) );           $title_alias = stripslashes($title_alias);           $this->_head['title'] = $title_alias;      }  }

@rickert:

I like your solution overall. Clean design and good filtering. However it does not work with J1.5 and I simply don't have the time to rework this at this time for RC1.

@kingBT:

Took you solution for now but did some cleanup around J1.5 detection. While it works, it creates some not so nice Descriptions and duplication. It keep the Meta unique at the cost of duplicate content inside the description and keyword section, As it uses the subject over and over in view.php

I have to do some more testing, but will most likely have to make more changes to this. Nothing ever comes easy - does it?

@fxstein
rickert`s solution is the best for posts in view.php but needs to be rewriten to filter tags, ilegal caracters and I think it would take to much time. This solution would be one for FB 2.

did this fix get put into RC-1? as my site just got indexed and all my meta descriptions are the meta description of my main site still.

I am using SH404SEF RC-1 and J1.5.6







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The meta description for posts is build like this:
site name description - post title - post reply title etc.
I realised that the best solution is to heve only the first 100-200 caracters from post in the post meta description.

rickert solution is great but must be written for FB 1.0.5+

well if you go to this post at joomseo, they have done it but have not answered how to do it. i cant seem to figure it out in their configuration but i do have joomseo running and it no workey like their site.

i realize the meta information for the title is drawn from the post, but i want the meta "description" and "keywords" to be comprised from the message text in the first post of the topic that the user starts.

here is my post from joomseo, but still check it out.

did you ever figure this one out? im having troubles with trying to get the _meta_ de_script_ion to _link_ to the message text in the post. it seems to be working on this site, if you view the html on this page in the head you will notice

Code: :


meta content="I have just upgraded to fire board 1. 0.
3. Everything seems okay. However, the headings in each forum
have changed. Whereas they used to show the..."
name="description"




that's the string of text in the first post....