Add meta Property to Head from Fabrik Element?

[cheesegrits]

@sunnyjey you've reached a point where I can't help on a free, ad-hoc basis. If you'd like to talk to us about a direct support arrangement, with a "bucket" of hours each month you can draw on for support, let me know.

-- hugh

 

[sunnyjey]

@cheesegrits

Please PM me details.

Thanks.

 

[sunnyjey]

BTW, you can also use

$metaTags  = '<title>Your page title</title>';
$metaTags .= '<meta name="description" content="'.$DescrVar.'" />';
$metaTags .= '<meta name="author" content="Your name here" />';

$mydoc = JFactory::getDocument();
$mydoc->addCustomTag($metaTags);

Instead of using php_event list plugin, I used these codes into my custom template list & with the help of Jsitemap Pro I could finally succeeded in generating dynamic metaTags based on Filters.

BUT got another big problem.

$mydoc->addCustomTag('<link rel="canonical" href="www.mydomain/canonical/url" />');

When I am trying to get canonical url by using above syntax, I get my custom canonical url.

BUT, fabrik also adds another default canonical url at the top of my custom canonical url. It is generating two URLS

1. www.mydomain/my-menu-url (<link rel="canonical" href="/my-menu-url" /> eg. if my menu name is say hotels-listing, fabrik adds www.mydomain.com/hotels-listing/)
2. www.mydomain/canonical/url

I guess, Fabrik is forcing Default canonical url from this file

https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/blob/master/components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.html.php

* Set the canonical link - this is the definitive URL that Google et all, will use
     * to determine if duplicate URLs are the same content
     *
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function setCanonicalLink()
    {
        if (!$this->app->isAdmin() && !$this->isMambot)
        {
            $url = $this->getCanonicalLink();

            // Set a flag so that the system plugin can clear out any other canonical links.
            $this->session->set('fabrik.clearCanonical', true);
            $this->doc->addCustomTag('<link rel="canonical" href="' . htmlspecialchars($url) . '" />');
        }
    }

How do I remove the default canonical URL. Is there any way I can remove $url = $this->getCanonicalLink(); ? Is layout override for /components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.html.php possible ?

Regards & Thanks

(NB: It looks Hugh is busy somewhere in his work, as he has not yet PM me)

 

[lousyfool]

It works for me: just a single canonical URL when using my code in my custom list template, no further action required. I don't know Jsitemap, perhaps it is involved here, too.

However, please do a count of both opening and closing brackets in your code line. Resulting action may help.

(NB: It looks Hugh is busy somewhere in his work, as he has not yet PM me)

Use this: https://fabrikar.com/quote-request

 

[sunnyjey]

Thank you once again for your reply. I have spent many hours to address this issue.

If possible can you please share your code for canonical URL.

 

[lousyfool]

Just checked, can't find or recreate the exact code without spending more time on it, it's buried in some older backups.

But, as far as I remember, and as elsewhere in J!, in Fabrik lists you'll just need to get rid of the "original" canonical URL, then add the new one. Along the lines of: get head data, loop through the relevant section, empty the value where rel="canonical" is part of the string, set head data again, then add your own tag.

 

[sunnyjey]

Yes, you are right. We need to unset the default canonical first. I have uninstalled JSitemap Pro.

Even tried following code to unset canonical in default.php of my custom list template:

$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
foreach ($doc->_links as $k => $array) {
if ($array['relation'] == 'canonical') {
unset($doc->_links[$k]);
}
}

But, it is not removing the www.mydomain.com/my-menu. It looks the unset for $this->getCanonicalLink(); is not working, like other MetaTags. If possible, please test it at your testing server to confirm this issue.

Once again Thank you for your help.

 

[lousyfool]

Sorry, I'm with Hugh / @cheesegrits here:

@sunnyjey you've reached a point where I can't help on a free, ad-hoc basis. If you'd like to talk to us about a direct support arrangement, with a "bucket" of hours each month you can draw on for support, let me know.

-- hugh

So I'd say more on this and my code to follow once you have some arrangement.