add {$city} to viewlisting.tpl title tag

[jason1971]

Hi,

What i am looking to acheive is to create a page with a load of cities in, and when a city is clicked show the results of any listings within that city in the viewlistings.tpl. Whilst I can do this no problem, what I am struggling with is to get the city name to appear in the title tag. I have tried {$city} and no joy.

I would like it to appear in the rsults as something like:

<title>Second hand items for sale in cityname</title>


Is this possible does anybody know ?

Many Thanks for your time

[bowers01]

put {debug} in the head section of layout.tpl and it will tell you what you can use.
Nick

[jason1971]

Hi there,
As suggested I have ran a debug in my layout.tpl and the results for the section I require are below, my issue now is how do I use the information to add to my <title> tag

I would like it to look something like <title>second hand items for sale in CITY NAME</title>.

I have tried just adding {$cities} but it come up as 'array', so I assume I have to do something using the information below. This is where I am stumpted, cos I have got a clue what to do with the information.

Any advise greatfully received, thanks Jason



{$cities} Array (17)
0 => Array (1)
city => "Aldershot"
1 => Array (1)
city => "arnold"
2 => Array (1)
city => "Ayrshire"
3 => Array (1)
city => "Birmingham"
4 => Array (1)
city => "Bristol"
5 => Array (1)
city => "gobowen"
6 => Array (1)
city => "Ilford"
7 => Array (1)
city => "london"
8 => Array (1)
city => "Market Drayton"
9 => Array (1)
city => "norwich"
10 => Array (1)
city => "oxford"
11 => Array (1)
city => "SWANSEA"
12 => Array (1)
city => "swimbridge barnstaple"
13 => Array (1)
city => "Tamworth"
14 => Array (1)
city => "Thornhill"
15 => Array (1)
city => "Wallasey"
16 => Array (1)
city => "Whitstable"


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[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by jason1971

Hi,

What i am looking to acheive is to create a page with a load of cities in, and when a city is clicked show the results of any listings within that city in the viewlistings.tpl. Whilst I can do this no problem, what I am struggling with is to get the city name to appear in the title tag. I have tried {$city} and no joy.

I would like it to appear in the rsults as something like:

<title>Second hand items for sale in cityname</title>


Is this possible does anybody know ?

Many Thanks for your time

The answer most likely lies within how you are able to do what you stated above, specifically " a city is clicked show the results of any listings within that city in the viewlistings.tpl." although I think you actually mean showlistings.tpl and not viewlistings which will only show one listings details.

The key is how are you linking to the showlistings page from the previous page. Is it a predefined search? If so, then it would be the "searchtext" variable that you are after which should then actually be visible in the url (unless you're using the SE friendly URLs module).

The variables that you are showing from the debug? Is that actually from the smarty panel on the page when you've already clicked on your city and are showing that cities ads? It doesn't seem like it. Try that if it isn't from that page.

Are the cities themselves categories? Perhaps a link to your site?

[jason1971]

Yes sorry it is showlisting.tpl (doh !)

What I have done is created a second searchlistings.php and a second showlistings.tpl to call and show the results in. (called seachlistings101.php and showlistings101.tpl )

I will then create a new page or section with a list of cities that is formed from users cities when registering. and call them by by the method below.

http://www.mywebsitename.com/searchresults101.php?searchtext=&city=Birmingham&s tate=&country=&Submit=Search">Birmingham</a>

Although this works fine in calling any items listing under birmingham it does not show the city name in the title tag.

Im not sure if what I am doing is correct (probably not). but its only getting the city name in the title tag thats bugging me, and after I did the debug and got that array info. That was it my mind went to jelly.

Id be most greatful if anybody could shed any light on when I need to do

Thanks Jason

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Well, I can't say for sure, but it seems like you may be overcomplicating what you are trying to achieve (I have a tendency to do that as well at times). Wouldn't you get the same results if the the search was just for "Burmingham?" If so, then first of all, all the your links could simply be {$smarty.const.URL}/searchresults.php?city={$city} (that might be $u.city) and that should give you the same results. By doing it that way that also then means you can use the $paging variable in smarty.

That would allow you to have a dynamic title like this:
<title>{$sitetile} {$paging|replace:"city=":" "}</title>
OR
<title>Second hand items for sale in {$paging|replace:"city=":""}</title>

[jason1971]

Hi Mike,

Just want to say a BIG thank you for your help, with a bit of re-jigging it works great.

Jason