title tags

[anna245 +]

i get the logic for this:
{if $body=='viewlisting.tpl'}
<title> Some Amazing title </title>


can something like this be done based on urls? that would be awesome.


{if url=yourwebsite.com/neyworkcityads.html}
<title> New York City Ads </title>

[seymourjames +]

Yes but it gets a bit messy. Care is needed and a lot of testing. I think I know what you want to do given your other posts - the goal is to generate unique title, description and keywords meta tags for every page. This is possible. Basically create yourself a metatags.tpl file. Include this in the top of the layout.tpl file.

{include file='metatags.tpl'}


In your metatags.tpl file you start to do a lot of logical tests and build your title, description and keywords on the fly. You test variables like $body, $SCRIPT_NAME, etc to know what page you are dealing with. Specifically I do what you suggest for the searchresults page. I test for the category, the seller, the search text etc for searchresults by looking at the URL. Here is an example from my metatags.tpl,

{if $SCRIPT_NAME == "/searchresults.php"}
{assign var=Seller value=$smarty.get.owner}
{assign var=Text value=$smarty.get.searchtext}
{assign var=Property value=$smarty.get.opt1}
{assign var=Type value=$smarty.get.type}

Then you can use these variable in logical tests and put them in your tags. For example,

{if $Type == 30}{assign var=Type value="south west france"}{/if}

Basically, the number 30 from the URL is south west france. You can then put the variable $TYPE in your metatags. etc.

As I said it is a messy business and you will need to play round a lot and understand what scripts do what and their nuances. The details and logic will be yours. I can share my complete metatags file with you if you like to see how I deal with other scripts like category.php. Just PM me.

[Kateedyd +]

I had placed a thread elsewhere on this subject and was directed to this thread.
I am wanting to do the exact same thing, but I don't have a clue about all this script testing. (I had my site built by AusCity).
Do you have any suggestions, or should I just hire someone else to do it for me?

[seymourjames +]

PM me and tell me what you are wanting to do exactly with your site - it may be straightforward or it may be complicated. It is quite a lot of work to do a complex file to test pages and assign unique title tags and descriptions.