dereuromark/cakephp-meta

CakePHP Meta plugin for managing meta tags and SEO related HTML header markup.

Meta plugin for CakePHP

This branch is for CakePHP 5.0+. For details see version map.

What is this plugin for?

This plugin helps to maintain and output meta tags for your HTML pages, including SEO relevant parts like "title", "keywords", "description", "robots" and "canonical".

It can be used as a simple view-only approach using the included helper, it can also be DB driven if desired, or dynamically be created from the controller context by passing the meta data to the view.

Installation and Usage

Please see Docs

ToDos

DB driven approach

Adding a Meta component and Metas Table we can pull data from an admin backend inserted DB table. Those could overwrite then any defaults set via actions or ctp templates.

cakephp-meta's Issues

Adding metadata in default.ctp overriding metadata of controller->action

• Bug

• CakePHP : 3.x

What I did

I am adding meta data from action of controller like

$_meta = [
      'title' => 'title for action'
];
$this->set(compact('_meta'));

and in default.ctp

$this->Meta->title(' : Company Name');
$this->Meta->out();

Expected Output

title for action : Company Name

Invalid argument supplied for foreach

As per your configuration documentation, I'm adding meta tags from within action

public function view($title = null)
{
    $contentPage = $this->ContentPages->find()
      ->where(['Categories.title LIKE' => 'Services', 'ContentPages.title LIKE' => $title, 'ContentPages.status' => 0])
      ->contain(['Categories'])
      ->first();

    $_meta = [
        'title' => $contentPage->title,
        'keywords' => $contentPage->meta_keyword,
        'description' => $contentPage->meta_description,
        'author' => 'DigiTechXPro'
    ];
 
    $this->set('contentPage', $contentPage);
    $this->set(compact('_meta'));
    $this->set('_serialize', ['contentPages']);
}

But this is producing error
Warning (2): Invalid argument supplied for foreach() [ROOT/vendor/dereuromark/cakephp-meta/src/View/Helper/MetaHelper.php, line 326]

Edit 2

on debug($_meta) in the action, it gives

[
    'title' => 'SEO Services',
    'keywords' => 'hello, world',
    'description' => 'hello',
    'author' => 'DigiTechXPro'
]

Add feature to add common meta data

• Suggestion

• CakePHP : 3.x

Add feature to add common meta data from config file.

Example : metadata.php in config directory may contain

$metadata = [
    ‘_all’ => [
	‘description’ => ‘Site wide description’
    ],
    ‘pages’ => [
   	   ‘_all’ => [
		‘description’ => ‘All pages_controller pages description’,
                'keywords' => ['en' => 'keyword, for, all, pages']
	   ],
	   ‘home’ => [
		‘description’ => ‘Home page description’
	   ]
    ],
    ‘controller_name’ => [
	   ‘_all’ => [
		‘description’ => ‘All controller_name actions description’
	   ],
	   ‘action’ => [
		‘description’ => ‘controller_name/action description’
	   ]
    ]
];

and append all in view on out();

Split into getter/setter

Following 3.4+ core those combined ones should also be split for a cleaner API.