title tags on calling urls

[seymourjames]

Can anyone tell me how to remove the last character which is > from this call to a url (browselistings.tpl)

$data[td].start_link


For example what I really want to do is

take this <a href="blablabla"> which is $data[td].start_link and make this <a href="blablabla" title="xxxxx">. If this can be done then it is possible to have calls to the category pages called with title tags in place. This could have a nice SEO benefit for 68 classifieds users. If it could also be done for listings as well then a substantial SEO benefit is gained.


What I am really trying to achieve is a 'script' which carries around not only the urls but their title tags for categories and listings. Creating unique title tags for pages is possible but I can only presently assign them at the point of display and not at the point they are called.

I am probably talking jibberish. Perhaps there is a simple way to do this.

[Jon]

Hey

Use the replace smarty modifier:

$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':' title="xxxxx">'

I haven't tested this, but it seems logical

[Jon]

Sorry, that assumes that you are wanting to perform this action within the tpl, if you're using php, try str_replace:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

[seymourjames]

Thanks Jon,

Nearly works.

so no problem with this

{$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':' title="xxxxx" >'}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>

but I really want to do make is make the xxxxx = $data[td].name. Dynamically assigned. I tried this but it did not work.

{$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':' title="$data[td].name" >'}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>

I am no smarty expert. Any help to solve one of my last problems in SEO on my site would be gratefully appreciated.

[Jon]

You almost had it

Here is the correct syntax:

{$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':" title=\"$data[td].name\" >"}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>

In PHP/Smarty, data within single quotes is considered a literal and IS NOT interpolated (in this case $data[td].name is literally dumped to the screen), data within double quotes IS interpolated ($data[td].name is read and substituted for your value).

[seymourjames]

Hi Jon,

When I use your suggested line of code I get title="Array.name" in the source. Strange. Any ideas why? I really want to solve this one. It has been bugging me for weeks.

[Jon]

{$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':" title=\"`$data[td].name`\">"}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>

Sorry for the misdirection - this should work with an array!

[seymourjames]

You made my day. This is a really good seo mod to do so that title tags can be added in browse.tpl when calling the urls for categories. Or indeed anywhere these urls are called like on the standard home page. It is one thing to get each page to have a nice seo friendly url, nice title and meta tags but internal linking is still very important. Thanks again.