Randelia Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 This is the support link for the 'Custom META Tags per ITEM' contribution. Here's the contribution link: Custom META Tags per ITEM - Contribution Custom META Tags per Item v1.0 This contribution allows you to set which META Tags & page TITLE are displayed on a per-product, per-category, and per-subCategory basis. This is an important step towards SEO! The following custom fields are stored in the database for each product, category, & subcategory: META Keywords META Description TITLE (i.e. <TITLE></TITLE>) This can be used to set default META Tags & page TITLE for your entire OSC store. If a product or category doesn't have an entry for any of the 3 custom fields, it will display the default for those fields. All entries are controlled using the admin console. Multi-language is supported for the product tags. Extra fields are added to the database to hold the custom fields, so this contribution should be very benign in it's interaction with other contributions. I heavily modified & extended Daniel Richards original 'custom meta tags' contribution to include extra fields, multi-language capabilities, and extra functionality. This contribution has been tested with Ultimate SEO URLs. I hope this helps y'all place well in the search engines! :D -Randelia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me23 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 sounds like a good contribution - do you have a link you can provide of a demo site with this installed along with Ultimate SEO URLSv2x? Also, how does this contribution differ from HeaderTags V2.5.5? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randelia Posted November 5, 2005 Author Share Posted November 5, 2005 sounds like a good contribution - do you have a link you can provide of a demo site with this installed along with Ultimate SEO URLSv2x? Also, how does this contribution differ from HeaderTags V2.5.5? Sorry, I didn't want to put my production website as an example because of all the test users, test orders, etc. that would follow. I suggest you setup a test site w/ a clean OSC install so you can just upload the files. Ultimate SEO URLs is very quick & easy to install, but your server must support mod_rewrite. My store is heavily modified, so the number of edits required for HeaderTags to work on my site scared me away from it. I thought that the 'custom meta tags w/ db column' contribution was a more straight forward design & an easier install, so I decide to extend it's functionality to include META Description, TITLE, and multi-language capabilities. I've never actually used the HeaderTags contribution so I can't say for sure, but it appears that it does the same thing. If your store does NOT have a modified admin/categories.php, then 'Custom META Tags per Item' will be a 5 minute install. Otherwise you'll spend a little time editing the file, buy my instructions are very clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double_d77 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Randelia, Great Contribution, works like a dream for the products. But On my index page in the languages file I did changes to this to add a title and keywords/decription. But when I run my site thorugh this site to check it out, it now tells me that I havn't got a title/keywords/content?? http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engine...g-analyzer.html Can you help me out here! When I check the index.php file the text I added is still all there?! and the title! Cheers Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randelia Posted November 10, 2005 Author Share Posted November 10, 2005 (edited) On my index page in the languages file I did changes to this to add a title and keywords/decription.Can you help me out here! When I check the index.php file the text I added is still all there?! and the title! By default languages/english/index.php does not define any HTML 'header' information - it begins by defining an HTML 'table' (i.e. it's meant to be placed below </head> & <body> on a html page - and below the code inserted by Custom_META_Tags too.) Defining any <head>, <title>, </head> or </title> tags in this file would undoubtedly interfere with my contribution. If the only changes you made to this file were to add META keyword & description and TITLE then you should restore the original /languages/.../index.php file. If you made a lot of changes to this file then try removing the following: META tags, <head>, </head>, <title>, </title> Here's how to integrate the Custom META Tags into other pages. If the page you're working on is focused on an individual product, then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('product_info', $products_id, $languages_id); ?> If the page you're working on is focused on a category, then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('categories', $cPath, $languages_id); ?> If the page is NOT focused on a product or category (i.e. contact_us.php), then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('useDefaults', $cPath, $languages_id); ?> It doesn't matter wheter you send it $cPath or $products_id in this case because it will just use the default keywords, description & title defined at the top of function ShowMETA in /includes/functions/general.php Edited November 10, 2005 by Randelia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double_d77 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 By default languages/english/index.php does not define any HTML 'header' information - it begins by defining an HTML 'table' (i.e. it's meant to be placed below </head> & <body> on a html page - and below the code inserted by Custom_META_Tags too.) Defining any <head>, <title>, </head> or </title> tags in this file would undoubtedly interfere with my contribution. If the only changes you made to this file were to add META keyword & description and TITLE then you should restore the original /languages/.../index.php file. If you made a lot of changes to this file then try removing the following: META tags, <head>, </head>, <title>, </title> Here's how to integrate the Custom META Tags into other pages. If the page you're working on is focused on an individual product, then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('product_info', $products_id, $languages_id); ?> If the page you're working on is focused on a category, then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('categories', $cPath, $languages_id); ?> If the page is NOT focused on a product or category (i.e. contact_us.php), then: REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('useDefaults', $cPath, $languages_id); ?> It doesn't matter wheter you send it $cPath or $products_id in this case because it will just use the default keywords, description & title defined at the top of function ShowMETA in /includes/functions/general.php I've commented out the part in general that you have to key your default keywords etc to. This seems to work for the index page. I'll look at doing the other pages such as contact us etc now, Cheers for that. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommygun Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Hello, Newbie here. I installed the Custom Meta Tags contrib. on a Windows IIS box. I had installed the SEO 2.0b version (which was recommended for Windows). Do you know if it works with this version of SEO on a windows box? When I click on the Product Review, the Meta Tags work, however, that seems to be because SEO 2.0b does not optimize the URL for the product review querystring (I still see the product ID, etc instead of the cName, pName). Any clarification on this? I would love to use the contribution... Thanks much, Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randelia Posted November 18, 2005 Author Share Posted November 18, 2005 I installed the Custom Meta Tags contrib. on a Windows IIS box. I had installed the SEO 2.0b version (which was recommended for Windows). Do you know if it works with this version of SEO on a windows box? When I click on the Product Review, the Meta Tags work, however, that seems to be because SEO 2.0b does not optimize the URL for the product review querystring (I still see the product ID, etc instead of the cName, pName).You didn't mention whether the custom meta tags were working for index.php & product_info.php with Ultimate SEO turned on. I'm not sure if the older version of Ultimate SEO rewrites the product reviews page - I've only used the latest version since my site is on a linux box. The latest version does rewrite this page. I haven't tested Custom META Tags w/ v 2.0b of Ultimate SEO, but I'm pretty sure they should be compatible. Ultimate SEO & Custom META Tags work on completely different levels. Ultimate SEO may rewrite the URLs, but the category & productID are still being passed via the URL - this rewriting just happens at the server level before it's seen by the user in their web browser. So, the fact that you're seeing trailing stuff like '?products_id=26&reviews_id=5' does NOT mean that Custom META Tags isn't working - this only means that Ultimate SEO is not rewriting the URL for this webpage. Disable Ultimate SEO URLs in the control panel (you may need to use my Ultimate SEO contribution to 'fix' the problem w/ disabling Ultimate SEO.) Then see if Custom META Tags works on your site. Then enable Ultimate SEO & test your site. By analyzing the results on a page-by-page basis it should be clear whether or not custom meta tags is working at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hello. I'm using your meta tags contribution, and needed a little help. I have an admin section which I'm using this in, and there's a little problem. ( PMed you o this, but checked with my client & it's ok for me to post too apparently.) I can edit the meta tags for existing products, but when I try and edit the tags for existing categories, I can't find the update/save button. It's completely vanished. Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greaser Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I installed the contribution a couple weeks ago and everything worked fine. I had to do a complete reinstall of my entire OSC and tried reinstalling the contribution but now I ONLY get the default meta tags. Don't know much about PHP. Can some put me in the right direction for troubleshooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknonweb Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Sorry, I didn't want to put my production website as an example because of all the test users, test orders, etc. that would follow. I suggest you setup a test site w/ a clean OSC install so you can just upload the files. Ultimate SEO URLs is very quick & easy to install, but your server must support mod_rewrite. My store is heavily modified, so the number of edits required for HeaderTags to work on my site scared me away from it. I thought that the 'custom meta tags w/ db column' contribution was a more straight forward design & an easier install, so I decide to extend it's functionality to include META Description, TITLE, and multi-language capabilities. I've never actually used the HeaderTags contribution so I can't say for sure, but it appears that it does the same thing. If your store does NOT have a modified admin/categories.php, then 'Custom META Tags per Item' will be a 5 minute install. Otherwise you'll spend a little time editing the file, buy my instructions are very clear. I am having a problem. The site is http://divinedivasgr.com. The titles are not pulling in the category names. Also, I cannot see in admin where I can make changes. I installed everything in the package. What am I doing wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisHoward Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 :( I am having a few errors, when I go to edit a product, all of the products information is removed and gone? And the two errors are shown: Warning: reset(): Passed variable is not an array or object in /homepages/39/d132738144/htdocs/SL/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 17 Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /homepages/39/d132738144/htdocs/SL/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 18 Could this be something to do with the database being edited via the script? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double_d77 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 If the page is NOT focused on a product or category (i.e. contact_us.php), then:REPLACE: <title><?phpechoTITLE;?></title> WITH: <?php // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('useDefaults', $cPath, $languages_id); ?> It doesn't matter wheter you send it $cPath or $products_id in this case because it will just use the default keywords, description & title defined at the top of function ShowMETA in /includes/functions/general.php It's been a while before I have looked at this, but I'm a bit stuck/confused. I figured out that if I get rid of my own meta tags on the index.php page that the defaults will be used. But if I copy this code into each different file such contact_us.php, shipping.php etc then all these pages will still have the same page titles and metas?? am I right? as they too will be pulling the information from the default settings. I can do it for all the other products/categories as they are in the admin side, it's just the other pages I can't seem to get to change titles/metas cheers Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMGGG Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Great contrib but I am having one problem. Has anyone been able to get this to work with this other contrib: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2796 The categories work fine but the products are not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMGGG Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Great contrib but I am having one problem. Has anyone been able to get this to work with this other contrib: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2796 The categories work fine but the products are not working. Ok, sorry I posted prematurely. I solved my problem by using this in the index.php <?php if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'])){ // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('product_info', (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'], $languages_id); } else { // Randelia Custom_META_Tags_Per_Item. Includes TITLE! echo ShowMETA('categories', $cPath, $languages_id);} ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon_U Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Hi, First let me say -thanks for this thread and for the sharing this contrib. I'm about to use it (the Custom Meta tags per item) but noticed one called Custom Meta in DB column and that confused me. How do I go about this without errors? It would be great to modify the tags in a database. Does Custom Meta tags dates Nov 5. have errors? Is something special involved? I apologize in advance if this causes people to repeat things. I just want to go about this seamlessly since my store is live. Sincerely, Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EroticKnights Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Anyone know how long it takes to get live? I submitted days ago and i see shops have gone live since i submitted? I sent emails with no replys, please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon_U Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Sharon here again. Being new to this I have a very ignorant question. I don't know how to run a SQL script, which is the first step in installing this contrib. I've gotten good with PHP edits and for that I'm using HAPedit. Can anybody help me with SQL? Sincerely, Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Randelia, Great Contribution, many thanks. How would I add the title, description and keywords data to Search and Advanced Search results? Thanks again, EricK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurioPete Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 I installed your contribution, and I like it very much. The categories, sub-categories and products all work very well. I search the source code and all is fine. But, when I seach the source code for the index page, my old keywords are still there and I would like to change them, but I do not know how. Also, I do not have any seo installed and I am wondering which one I would be wise to install, there are so many! I have shared ssl and cannot force cookies and my knowledge of php is very limited. Thanks, Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 This contribution works like a charm, however Search and Advanced Search do not query the Custom META tags fields. This is likely by design, however I need cart search to include the custom meta tags. How would I extend cart search to query the Custom META tags fields in the database? Thanks, EricK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsolomontx Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 This is the support link for the 'Custom META Tags per ITEM' contribution. Here's the contribution link: Custom META Tags per ITEM - Contribution Custom META Tags per Item v1.0 This contribution allows you to set which META Tags & page TITLE are displayed on a per-product, per-category, and per-subCategory basis. This is an important step towards SEO! The following custom fields are stored in the database for each product, category, & subcategory: META Keywords META Description TITLE (i.e. <TITLE></TITLE>) This can be used to set default META Tags & page TITLE for your entire OSC store. If a product or category doesn't have an entry for any of the 3 custom fields, it will display the default for those fields. All entries are controlled using the admin console. Multi-language is supported for the product tags. Extra fields are added to the database to hold the custom fields, so this contribution should be very benign in it's interaction with other contributions. I heavily modified & extended Daniel Richards original 'custom meta tags' contribution to include extra fields, multi-language capabilities, and extra functionality. This contribution has been tested with Ultimate SEO URLs. I hope this helps y'all place well in the search engines! :D -Randelia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsolomontx Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 PLEASE HELP!! Beyond frustration, cannot get this script to work with OscMax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurioPete Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I have had this contib installed for a few weeks now. It seemed to work (mostly for the index page) when I installed it, and search engines were picking up the site. But now I have'nt had a search engine (or even an unwanted spider) crawl my site in over two weeks. Anyone have any theories about whether this contrib actually works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 This is the support link for the 'Custom META Tags per ITEM' contribution. Here's the contribution link: Custom META Tags per ITEM - Contribution Custom META Tags per Item v1.0 This contribution allows you to set which META Tags & page TITLE are displayed on a per-product, per-category, and per-subCategory basis. This is an important step towards SEO! The following custom fields are stored in the database for each product, category, & subcategory: META Keywords META Description TITLE (i.e. <TITLE></TITLE>) This can be used to set default META Tags & page TITLE for your entire OSC store. If a product or category doesn't have an entry for any of the 3 custom fields, it will display the default for those fields. All entries are controlled using the admin console. Multi-language is supported for the product tags. Extra fields are added to the database to hold the custom fields, so this contribution should be very benign in it's interaction with other contributions. I heavily modified & extended Daniel Richards original 'custom meta tags' contribution to include extra fields, multi-language capabilities, and extra functionality. This contribution has been tested with Ultimate SEO URLs. I hope this helps y'all place well in the search engines! :D -Randelia I installed your contribution on a test site on a local machine and it seems to work fine. However, when I installed it on two online shops, only the default tags I entered in /includes/functions/general.php show up. phpMyAdmin indicates that my entries are present in the database. Everything seems to be the same as far as I can tell for both the local and remote sites. I am baffled. Help would be appreciated. -Pink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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