Testimonial Manager Support Thread

[clydejones]

I'm facing the same problem with this. I am using zc1.38a and it doesn't show up in chinese version of my site. Please help.
my site: http://www.exoreptiles.com/my/

have you added any testimonials in chinese?

[gaffettape]

Hi Clyde,

I've had a dig around this thread and can't find an answer so here goes.

Title tag and meta description: is it possible for each testimonial (index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=XX) to have it's own unique title tag and meta description generated, the same way that Zen Cart generates a unique title tag and meta description for each product based on it's name/description etc.

Thanks

[clydejones]

Hi Clyde,

I've had a dig around this thread and can't find an answer so here goes.

Title tag and meta description: is it possible for each testimonial (index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=XX) to have it's own unique title tag and meta description generated, the same way that Zen Cart generates a unique title tag and meta description for each product based on it's name/description etc.

Thanks

Hmmmmmm! did you check this post

[gaffettape]

Hmmmmmm! did you check this post

Nope! Thanks! Sorry!

[gaffettape]

Nope! Thanks! Sorry!

Ok so I've had a go, and have experienced the same problems as a few other people on this thread.

I've done this, then this and finally this.

The result is:

"META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALSTestimonial, Titles, Here" as the title on the display_all_testimonials page.

And:

"Testimonial - (blank)" as the title on the testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=XX pages.



What I was thinking I might try was to define description, title and keywords for the display_all_testimonials page via the built in Zen Cart Per-Page meta-tags function in the includes\languages\english\my_template\meta_tags.php file and use only the "testimonials_manager" part of your method to display auto-generated titles/description/keyword tags on the testimonials_id=XX pages - only problem is that I don't know which parts to leave and which parts to delete..

[clydejones]

Ok so I've had a go, and have experienced the same problems as a few other people on this thread.

I've done this, then this and finally this.

The result is:

"META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALSTestimonial, Titles, Here" as the title on the display_all_testimonials page.

And:

"Testimonial - (blank)" as the title on the testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=XX pages.



What I was thinking I might try was to define description, title and keywords for the display_all_testimonials page via the built in Zen Cart Per-Page meta-tags function in the includes\languages\english\my_template\meta_tags.php file and use only the "testimonials_manager" part of your method to display auto-generated titles/description/keyword tags on the testimonials_id=XX pages - only problem is that I don't know which parts to leave and which parts to delete..

Remove the highlighted portions from the following code:

break;
//TESTIMONIALS:
case 'display_all_testimonials':

$sql = "select * from " . TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . " where status = 1 and language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' order by date_added DESC, testimonials_title";
$testimonials = $db->Execute($sql);
while (!$testimonials->EOF) {
$testimonial_string_metatags .= zen_clean_html($testimonials->fields['testimonials_title']) . METATAGS_DIVIDER;

$testimonials->MoveNext();

} //EOF
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
break;

case 'testimonials_manager':
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);

[gaffettape]

Remove the highlighted portions from the following code:

break;
//TESTIMONIALS:
case 'display_all_testimonials':

$sql = "select * from " . TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . " where status = 1 and language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' order by date_added DESC, testimonials_title";
$testimonials = $db->Execute($sql);
while (!$testimonials->EOF) {
$testimonial_string_metatags .= zen_clean_html($testimonials->fields['testimonials_title']) . METATAGS_DIVIDER;

$testimonials->MoveNext();

} //EOF
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
break;

case 'testimonials_manager':
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);

Ok, so I tried that and unfortunately it didn't seem to work. I poked around a bit and tried this which seems to work ok:

I found the following line in /includes/modules/my_template/meta_tags.php

// NO "break" here. Allow defaults if not overridden at the per-page level

And added your following code directly above it (all I did was remove the "display_all_testimonials" page releveant code)

// Testimonials:
  case 'testimonials_manager':
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  break;

I have very little knowledge of php and would appreciate if you could check that the above looks ok.

Then all I had to do was to define description, title and keywords for the display_all_testimonials page, I did that via the built in Zen Cart Per-Page meta-tags function in the includes/languages/english/my_template/meta_tags.php file like so:

// Per-Page meta-tags.
// Page: DISPLAY_ALL_TESTIMONIALS
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION_DISPLAY_ALL_TESTIMONIALS','A description here');
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS_page_name','keywords, go, here');
  define('META_TAG_TITLE_page_name', 'Page title here');

Testing on my local site seems to look ok so far..

[clydejones]

Looks fine.

[gaffettape]

Sorry to string this out over soooo many posts Clyde, but I have just one more very quick question.

Is it possible to add my sites title & tagline after the testimonials title in the following code:

// Testimonials:
  case 'testimonials_manager':
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  break;

Thanks.

[clydejones]

Sorry to string this out over soooo many posts Clyde, but I have just one more very quick question.

Is it possible to add my sites title & tagline after the testimonials title in the following code:

// Testimonials:
  case 'testimonials_manager':
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  break;

Thanks.

You should be able to add them as indicated by the highlight.

// Testimonials:
  case 'testimonials_manager':
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title'] . TITLE . TAGLINE);
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
  break;