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How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:52 pm
by dashik
I'm not looking to add anything in the <head> portion...but just in the main body of the product.tpl file located at catalog/view/theme/default/template/product/product.tpl
I've tried all sorts of different things and I still can't figure this one out. I'm trying to display the contents of the meta_description field somewhere on the page and not just in the <head> -- how can I do this?
Thanks!
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:11 pm
by dashik
I've given up trying to call the meta description and am now trying to query the db directly to return the meta where product_id equals the current product.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:45 am
by Qphoria
1. EDIT: catalog/controller/product/product.php
2. FIND:
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$this->document->description = $product_info['meta_description'];
3. AFTER, ADD:
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$this->data['meta_description'] = $product_info['meta_description'];
4. EDIT: catalog/view/theme/YOURTHEME/template/product/product.tpl
5. PASTE THIS WHERE YOU WANT IT:
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:41 am
by i2Paq
What will this do excactly?
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:12 am
by Qphoria
I guess he wants to use the meta_description as another description field to display on the product page
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:15 pm
by dashik
Thank you! That's exactly what i needed.
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:23 pm
by dashik
Q, what if I want to do the same thing on the category.tpl page?
What exactly do i need to insert into the category controller?
I tried finding this:
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$this->document->description = $category_info['meta_description'];
And adding this AFTER:
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$this->data['meta_description'] = $category_info['meta_description'];
And tried calling it with <?php echo $meta_description; ?> in the category.tpl template....but no luck.
Any ideas?
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:22 am
by dashik
Oops, i just realized i wrote $category_info up there....what I meant to say is that i want that same product meta_description that Q helped me display to show up next to each product in the category view...and NOT the category's meta description.
Hope that makes sense.
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:58 am
by Qphoria
you mean you want hte product meta info to show up on the category page?
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:13 am
by dashik
^ yes, exactly. under each product listing.
For example...imagine:
[thumbnail]
[price]
[model]
[meta_description]
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:37 am
by Qphoria
1. EDIT: catalog/controller/product/category.php
2. FIND:
3. AFTER, ADD:
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'meta_description' => $result['meta_description'],
4. EDIT: catalog/view/....../product/category.tpl
5. FIND:
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<?php if ($products[$j]['rating']) { ?>
<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stars_<?php echo $products[$j]['rating'] . '.png'; ?>" alt="<?php echo $products[$j]['stars']; ?>" />
<?php } ?>
6. AFTER, ADD:
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<?php if ($products[$j]['meta_description']) { ?>
<?php echo $products[$j]['meta_description']; ?>"
<?php } ?>
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:46 am
by dashik
You, sir, are a life saver!
I wish i had money to donate but I have at least purchased like 3 of your modules so far (it was for the FishSmith site a couple of months ago if you recall).
Thanks for all the great work!
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:20 am
by dashik
Any idea how I can do the same for the meta keyword field?
I tried doing it with the exact directions above but it appears that this field might behave a bit differently and it doesn't show up on either the product or category pages.
Thanks!
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:44 am
by Qphoria
There is no meta keyword field. The keyword is for SEO urls. Meta keywords have been deemed useless for the past 2 years (google some info about it).
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:14 am
by dashik
Qphoria wrote:There is no meta keyword field. The keyword is for SEO urls. Meta keywords have been deemed useless for the past 2 years (google some info about it).
I understand but I'm just trying to re-use this field for another purpose like I did with the meta description product field.
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:40 am
by Qphoria
Try this in the product.tpl:
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<?php
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE query = 'product_id=" . (int)$product_id . "'");
echo $query->row['keyword'];
?>
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:34 pm
by dashik
Anyone know how i can call the product_id of each listing in the category.tpl template file?
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:48 pm
by moggiex
dashik wrote:Anyone know how i can call the product_id of each listing in the category.tpl template file?
Yes.
/catalog/controller/product/product.php
About line 143, you'll see something like this:
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$this->data['products'][] = array(
'name' => $result['name'],
'rating' => $rating,
'stars' => sprintf($this->language->get('text_stars'), $rating),
'thumb' => image_resize($image, $this->config->get('config_image_product_width'), $this->config->get('config_image_product_height')),
'price' => $price,
'special' => $special,
'page_url' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&product_id=' . $result['product_id'])),
'href' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&path=' . $this->request->get['path'] . '&product_id=' . $result['product_id']))
);
Replace with this:
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$this->data['products'][] = array(
'name' => $result['name'],
'model' => $result['model'],
'sku' => $result['sku'],
'id' => $result['product_id'],
'rating' => $rating,
'stars' => sprintf($this->language->get('text_stars'), $rating),
'thumb' => image_resize($image, $this->config->get('config_image_product_width'), $this->config->get('config_image_product_height')),
'price' => $price,
'special' => $special,
'page_url' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&product_id=' . $result['product_id'])),
'href' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&path=' . $this->request->get['path'] . '&product_id=' . $result['product_id']))
);
This has now added 3 new parts to the product array returned:
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<?php echo $products[$j]['sku']; ?>
<?php echo $products[$j]['model']; ?>
<?php echo $products[$j]['id']; ?>
That can be used in:
catalog/view/theme/default/template/product/category.tpl
In the section that starts off like:
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<?php for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($products); $i = $i + 2) { ?>
<tr>
<?php for ($j = $i; $j < ($i + 4); $j++) { ?>
<td width="25%"><?php if (isset($products[$j])) { ?>
As you can see I ahve already been in here as
model and
sku were very oddly.. missing.
Matt
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:05 pm
by dashik
moggiex -- for some reason, that's not working for me.
this is what my product array looked like before:
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$this->data['products'][] = array(
'name' => $result['name'],
'model' => $result['model'],
'rating' => $rating,
'stars' => sprintf($this->language->get('text_stars'), $rating),
'thumb' => HelperImage::resize($image, $this->config->get('config_image_related_width'), $this->config->get('config_image_related_height')),
'price' => $this->currency->format($this->tax->calculate($result['price'], $result['tax_class_id'], $this->config->get('config_tax'))),
'special' => $special,
'href' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&product_id=' . $result['product_id']))
);
And after:
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$this->data['products'][] = array(
'name' => $result['name'],
'model' => $result['model'],
'id' => $result['product_id'],
'rating' => $rating,
'stars' => sprintf($this->language->get('text_stars'), $rating),
'thumb' => HelperImage::resize($image, $this->config->get('config_image_related_width'), $this->config->get('config_image_related_height')),
'price' => $this->currency->format($this->tax->calculate($result['price'], $result['tax_class_id'], $this->config->get('config_tax'))),
'special' => $special,
'href' => $this->model_tool_seo_url->rewrite($this->url->http('product/product&product_id=' . $result['product_id']))
);
But category.tpl still won't call the product_id using
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<?php echo $products[$j]['id']; ?>
Keep in mind I am running 1.3.0 -- is there anything else I need to be doing?
Thanks!
Re: How can I display Meta Description on Product page?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:09 pm
by dashik
Ok i figured it out! The problem was that the changes needed to be made to the category.php controller, not product.php
Everything looks good now, thanks!