Automatic Meta tags generation

[Craft Magick]

Here's a post I found that seems to have worked for my site.

The file I modified with the following info is located at:

/includes/templates/your_custom_template/common/html_header.php

I'm using version 1.3.8

 Originally Posted by www.scifi-models.com
Hi there... I have an easy answer for everyone on this...


Search for this line in your_template/common/html_header.php..

<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_TAG_KEYWORDS; ?>" />

Should be near the top, line 27.

Delete the line and replace with the following:

<?php $slashpos = strrpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"/");
if ($slashpos === false || $slashpos == strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$thispage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
else
{
$thispage = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$slashpos+1,strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])-1);
}
if ($thispage == "index.php" || $thispage == "index.php?main_page=index" || $thispage == "") {
echo '<meta name="keywords" content="scifi models,star trek resin props,star trek models,movie memorabilia,t-virus prop,enterprise prop,maco,############## movie props,prop reproductions,resin props,battlestar resin prop"/>';
}
else
{
echo '<meta name="keywords" content="' . META_TAG_KEYWORDS . '" />' ;
} ?>



This will replace the dynamic keywords it generates automatically words to a set keywords for the main index.php page, and send the dynamic keywords for products. Hope this helps! Thanks to synavia for her code for checking which page your on!

Hope this helps.

Zencart ROCKS!

[kdnmiller]

Right, i think thats the thread i refered to in my previous posting. However this will fix your "keyword content" tags and if you change the other code also your "description' tag.

However this works only for the main page, if you check on your products and view the source, zen still spams these pages. You can influence that a bit by defining meta tags in your admin but that does not stop Zen from putting in the keywords.

Also i have no idea how to define tags for EZ-pages.. ???

[Craft Magick]

Thanks kdnmiller, and yes i saw your post(#19) with the link but when i clicked it, it went to something about 'auto email generation' so i did a search under posts done by your username and that's how i found the right thread and decided to include the info in my post (#21) in case anyone else had the same problem

And for whatever reason, the above 'fix' actually stopped spamming both my home page AND my product meta tags (that is, the ones that I've had time to update with the biohazard link)

So hopefully these posts will help others and maybe one of us will figure out why it's not stopping the product meta tag spamming on your site, too. If i find any additional solutions i'll post them back here, too.

Have a great weekend and thanks again!

Zencart ROCKS!

[mikedeezy33]

Hey guys -
I wanted to have a little more over which categories show up in the meta tag keywords, so I coded a mod which basically adds a checkbox in the admin asking whether the category should be included in site wide keywords. Note that the keywords will still show on the category pages, but now not on the home page or other pages, such as the contact page.

I hope this helps some of you. If anyone tries it and has any questions let me know. I am thinking of expanding on this mod, adding more control over meta tags, especially for ez pages. Any suggestions?

The link below is the original post with the code for the mod.
zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=534671&postcount=5

[hllight]

Good morning. I am attempting to change the meta information on the home page ONLY.
In meta_tag.php there is a section that is supposed to allow me to do this:
// Home Page Only:
define('HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION', ' ');
define('HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS', ' ');

I am using a custom template called "aaadisplay". I have entered the updated information in
/includes/languages/english/aaadisplay/meta_tag.php
but still just get the category info

I also entered the updated information in
/includes/languages/english/meta_tag.php
in the event that the override was not functioning but stll no change.

Any ideas?

[kdnmiller]

Hi, i myself have one site that also has this code in meta-tag.php and it worked for me. I did not needed to go through the whole process described above, and the tags were changed on the mainpage..

Make sure you are editing the correct meta-tag.php, there may be more than one.. mine is located at /includes/languages/english/meta_tag.php and not /includes/languages/english/myzenshop/meta_tag.php as you stated.

I left SITE TAGLINE and CUSTOM KEYWORDS blank and only used the HOME_PAGE_META sections... also have defined product meta tags in your admin.

If this all still does not work you can still edit /includes/templates/your_custom_template/common/html_header.php

cheers
mike

[hllight]

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I made the changes in both locations just in case and neither seem to do a darn thing. Bummer!

[kdnmiller]

You mean you changed both files: meta_tags.php AND html_header.php ??

again are you sure you are editing the correct meta tag file?? make change to the title tag in the file and use source code to check if it was changed..

[hllight]

I did not edit html_header.php.
I edited both copies of meta_tags.php. One in my template directory /includes/languages/english/aaadisplay and one in /includes/languages/english in the event it was not looking in the correct directory.

I could not figure out what to edit html_header.php. There did not seem to be anything there that was specific to the home page and I did not want to make a global change. I hope you can understand what I am attempting to explain.

Is this function a part of version 1.3.8? I am running 1.3.7. I have searched for the string "home_page_meta" and do not find it in any other file on my system. So I wonder what good is ther variable if it is not used elsewhere?

Thanks again for trying to help me.

[DrByte]

Custom meta-tags for just the home page was a feature added in v1.3.8.
You won't find that option in v1.3.7 or earlier.