Header Tags SEO

[Jack_mcs]

The minimum requirement for the latest version is php 5.3. The code will fail on pre-5.3 servers. The change you mention will work though I think there are other code changes that may be needed as well. It just happens that yesterday was the 3-year anniversary of when support for 5.2 ended - http://www.php.net/eol.php - and it has security holes in it that were fixed in 5.3. If your host is still on 5.2 I strongly suggest you see if they will upgrade or switch to a more secure hosting environment since you have bigger problems than getting this addon to work.

[slupostrupek]

I've installed without problems but i've got does Notices on frontpage:

 

Notice: Undefined index: manufacturers_id in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/header_tags.php on line 35

Notice: Undefined index: title in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/header_tags.php on line 218

Notice: Undefined index: desc in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/header_tags.php on line 219

Notice: Undefined index: keywords in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/header_tags.php on line 220

Notice: Use of undefined constant store_logo - assumed 'store_logo' in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/modules/header_tags_opengraph.php on line 22

Notice: Use of undefined constant png - assumed 'png' in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/modules/header_tags_opengraph.php on line 22

Notice: Undefined variable: db in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/modules/header_tags_opengraph.php on line 24

Notice: Undefined index: title in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/modules/header_tags_opengraph.php on line 26

Notice: Undefined index: desc in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/modules/header_tags_opengraph.php on line 27

Notice: Undefined index: logo_text in /home/xx/public_html/xx/includes/header.php on line 29

 

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Edited January 8, 2014 by slupostrupek

[Jack_mcs]

All of those, while technically errors, are considered warnings and of little importance. Though the ones for open graph are due to mistakes in the code. You can download a replacement file from here: http://www.oscommerce-solution.com/pub/header_tags_opengraph_3.3.1_fix.zip.

 

For most of the others, the error reporting line in includes/application_top.php should prevent those from showing unless it has been altered or you have some addon installed that overrides it. You can change it to the following though and that may help

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

 

For the last one, that isn't related to this addon.

[slupostrupek]

That fix helped only with undefined 'db' and created undefined creator.

 

About store_logo it's reletaed to this addon. It's this line:

<div><div id="storeLogo"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'store_logo.png', (tep_not_null($header_tags_array['logo_text']) ? $header_tags_array['logo_text'] : STORE_NAME)) . '</a></div>';

 

All those notices i've got is because this add doesn't work on index.php.

[Jack_mcs]

You'll need to turn down the error reporting as mentioned or work on changing the code to fix the rest yourself or, if they bother you and you don't know how to change the code, pay someone to do it for you. I can't provide site-specific fixes in a support forum since that would be all I ever had time for.

[Beginner_OS]

Is it possible to indicate that content is actually in current language and not the main one:

 

if ($defaultTags['meta_language']) { $langName = explode(",", $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]); echo ' <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="' . $langName[0] . '" >'."\n"; }

 

In ther words, how to get e.g. this:

 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="it">

[Jack_mcs]

There is the language meta tag box in Page Control that should do what you want.

Edited January 12, 2014 by Jack_mcs

[Beginner_OS]

As far as I can see, there is only one place - default Tags in Page Control. And when I select this option under Meta Tags / Language, I get <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="Main Language"> in accordance with the code defined by $langName[0], for all languages.

[Jack_mcs]

In includes/header_tags.php, find this line

if ($defaultTags['meta_language']) { $langName = explode(",", $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]); echo ' <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="' . $langName[0] . '" >'."\n"; }

Replace with

$lang_query = tep_db_query( "select code from " . TABLE_LANGUAGES . " where languages_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");
$lang = tep_db_fetch_array($lang_query);
if ($defaultTags['meta_language'])  echo ' <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="' . $lang['code'] . '" >'."\n";

[Beginner_OS]

That works perfectly! Thank you very much Jack!

[greasemonkey]

@@Jack_mcs I just wanted to confirm...

 

I didn't think to mention that this last version of Header Tags SEO requires php 5.3. If your host is still running 5.2, or before, don't install this update.

 

Version 3.3.1 is not backward compatible for PHP verions 5.2 or below?

[Jack_mcs]

No, the line has to be drawn somewhere. With 5.3 nearing EOL, it seems silly to still support 5.2. I thought about not using 5.3 code and about providing a check for 5.2 but that is more work for me and I didn't have the time.

[Mort-lemur]

Hi Jack,

 

Sorry to ask you another question, but I have an interesting anomaly with one of my 2.3.3.4 sites running header tags seo 3.3.0 on a php 5.4.21 server - and this only seems to affect one site.

 

Sometimes when I visit the site, or a product on the site, the title does not match the category / product - so I need to go to admin / header tags / page control / all pages and hit update - then all is as it should be again.

 

Any ideas what may be causing this?

 

Many Thanks

[Jack_mcs]

Updating Page Control would only affect the settings for the pages as setup in Page Control. Or, in other words, once done, doing again would not make any changes. If that is not the case for you, which it sounds like it isn't, then it would seem a setting is being reset somehow. I've never heard of this problem and can't think of anything that would cause it. I suppose that if the cache option was on, it might cause it, though I don't see how. But you could try turning it off to see if it makes a difference. If you can somehow get it to fail consistently it might help to find the cause.

[Mort-lemur]

@@Jack_mcs Thanks - I have tried clearing the cache to see if that helps, I will update you if it continues. Im wondering if the configuration cache modification could be causing this - but I dont see how it could.

[Jack_mcs]

I've had problems with that addon not clearing cache with some changes. If the problem still occurs, try deleting the cache file and creating a new one.

[justinternetsolutions]

Hi

 

I'm fairly new to osCommerce I have worked on a number of Zen Cart installations a few years back, I have a client on their own hosting, They are running osCommerce v2.3.1 and they only have PHP 4.4.9 installed on the server, will I still be able to use a version of this plugin?

 

If so which version would you suggest?

 

I will not be able to upgrade their osCommerce or PHP version as it is managed by another company, are there any other plugins you could suggest, my SEO team only need to be able to amend Page Titles and Meta Descriptions on Pages, Categories and Products pages.

 

Thanks

[Jack_mcs]

You can use version 3.3.0. I will probably remove the 5.3 requirements in the next version because of the large number of servers still using out-dated php versions. I thought for sure that after this amount of time, all hosts would have upgraded but that, it turns out, is far from the fact.

 

If all you want is to change titles and tags, you can use any of the meta tags addons. But none of them would come close to what this one offers and, sooner or later, your SEO team will realize the need the other features.

[IWAS]

I am running header tags 3.2.9

 

Can I upgrade directly to 3.3.1 without doing 3.3.0 first ?

[Jack_mcs]

Yes, as long as you perform all of the steps for upgrading to 3.3.1. There are database changes made in the upgrade to 3.3.0 that you will skip if you do that but they are just for keeping the size of the database down and are not required for proper operation.

[a.forever]

Just installed the latest version. Seems to work great. I wasn't using a file compare program, so I followed the text instructions. Just wanted to mention that instructions for HeaderTags_SEO_V_3.3.1\Use_if_version_greaterthan_2.3\Install_Admin.txt has a few errors:

 

1) Instructions that modify admin/categories.php, the FIND (around line 771) requires an addition with REPLACE WITH: (the PHP tag is missing)

} elseif ($action == 'new_product_preview') {
/*** Begin Header Tags SEO ***/
$product_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, pd.language_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, pd.products_head_title_tag, pd.products_head_title_tag_alt, pd.products_head_title_tag_url, pd.products_head_desc_tag, pd.products_head_keywords_tag, pd.products_head_breadcrumb_text, pd.products_head_listing_text, pd.products_head_sub_text, pd.products_url, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_image, p.products_price, p.products_weight, p.products_date_added, p.products_last_modified, p.products_date_available, p.products_status, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_id = pd.products_id and p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['pID'] . "'");
/*** End Header Tags SEO ***/

should be

<?php
} elseif ($action == 'new_product_preview') {
/*** Begin Header Tags SEO ***/
$product_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, pd.language_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, pd.products_head_title_tag, pd.products_head_title_tag_alt, pd.products_head_title_tag_url, pd.products_head_desc_tag, pd.products_head_keywords_tag, pd.products_head_breadcrumb_text, pd.products_head_listing_text, pd.products_head_sub_text, pd.products_url, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_image, p.products_price, p.products_weight, p.products_date_added, p.products_last_modified, p.products_date_available, p.products_status, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_id = pd.products_id and p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['pID'] . "'");
/*** End Header Tags SEO ***/

 

2) Across the file, the folllowing

<br>

needs to change to

<br />

 

Nothing major. Thanks!

[IWAS]

Yes, as long as you perform all of the steps for upgrading to 3.3.1. There are database changes made in the upgrade to 3.3.0 that you will skip if you do that but they are just for keeping the size of the database down and are not required for proper operation.

 

Thanks Jack.

 

I tried but it isn't going to work if it requires php 5.3. I am running 5.2. My host offers up to 5.4. Tried switching to 5.4 yesterday and crashed all my sites.

[Jack_mcs]

I'll be uploading a new version that will work with 5.2 before Monday.

[mau965]

Hello Jack,

I've installed last version and all works fine, but I have a problem with header_tags_seo_social.php in admin side. I can't change any social bookmark.

Google say: "Images and url do not match"

Why?

Thanks

Edited January 31, 2014 by mau965

[Jack_mcs]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by not being able to change a bookmark. Are you saying if you click on an icon it doesn't show the check mark? Do you have a url entered for that icon? In the required format as mentioned on that page?

 

As for what google is saying, I've no idea how that could happen. I can only imagine you are referring to webmaster tools but i am not aware of any option in that to check urls against images. I can't even guess how they would relate the two since there's no rule that any image be assigned to a particular url. Very strange.