Integration - headtags ?

[bugman]

Thanks Chuck.

OK, let me get this straight. With vb3 integration, the only way for me to get the Category descriptions and photo descriptions in the meta description is to say No to that top line in vb3 integration Admin section, correct?

In other words - the category and photo descriptions are automatically set to the meta description without vb3 integration ?

[Chuck S]

NO I never said that.

I said with the Photopost header system you can specify a different header footer and headtags file per category.

Now if your talking about some mod to auto-generate meta tags based on information in a script that still requires you to write whichever headtags php code file to generate what your trying to do.

[bugman]

OK, so I turned off the vb integration and it's not what I want at all.

So we're back to square one.

How do i get the photo descriptions and category description to replace the meta description that pp is pulling from vb ?

all i need is a statement to say don't pull vb meta, pull cat and photo meta. i mean, this is crazy it cant be rocket science. if i had more php knowledge i'd of figure this out already.

CHuck any ideas? that bit of code in one of my last posts is pulling header2. but i just want to know where inside of PP is the integrationg pulling the meta descript from vb. and then tell it not to do this, but instead pull $cat and $photo desc or whatever the he11.

i know this would be beneficial to many. especially with SEO purposes.

[Chuck S]

Your not following what I had said on how the program works which is what this forum is about.

If you use the vb header your simply going to show the vb header. Vb is only going to print things based on its variables. Nothing meta comes from Photopost. Photopost has no play in any of that.

Your welcome to move your discussion to the mod forum if anyone wants to try and hack it for you.

I have explained how the program itself works.

[bugman]

Chuck,

If vb integration is pulling vb3 header....... then how come we can pull the photo's title and it shows up in the head <title> tag ?

yet a few lines down we can't pull the same photo's description and place it into the meta description?

[Chuck S]

Because the program is not coded to do so as it has been explained. I know exactly what you all want to do but in many threads now it has been explained you all want to put titles and descriptions in meta tags. Neither the Photopost programs do this nor does to my knowledge at least not on my UNHACKED vbulletin code does this popular program do it either.

You can include meta tags in the vbheader easy cause you can include a global heagtags like so in admin with the meta tags you want but my example here shows why it does not work

Content visible to verified customers only.

Tags print fine as shown but until the program is modified to pass the information to the function you can not use it

I hope this clarifies the issue here. Just cause I may know how to rewrite our code to support this from a company standpoint you will need to wait till such that till this functionality exists in a future version or you may hack your scripts at your leisure. You may discuss hacks here but let me link the mod corner rules first

http://www.photopost.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121154

[GateKeeper]

Any chance you could post a working example of this. I have exactly the same requirement and would interested in knowing the most effective way to implement this. The code you posted above

if ( $Globals['forumstyle'] == "yes" ) {
$Style['onbody'] = "onbody";
$Style['tableborders'] = "tborder";
$Style['tablesurround'] = "";
$Style['tddetails'] = "alt1";
$Style['tdbackground'] = "panelsurround";
$Style['tdnothumbs'] = "tcat";
$Style['menubar'] = "tcat";
$Style['menubarnb'] = "";
$Style['catcolumn'] = "alt1Active";
$Style['photocol'] = "alt1";
$Style['commentscol'] = "alt2";
$Style['lastphocol'] = "alt2";
$Style['lastcommcol'] = "alt1";
$Style['small'] = "smallfont";
$Style['medium'] = "normal";
$Style['large'] = "normal";
$Style['welcome'] = "welcome";
$Style['lighttable'] = "mysiwyg";
$Style['alternatetable'] = "alt1";
$Style['formboxes'] = "textarea";
$Style['blockquote'] = "bginput";
}

is interesting, but I just don't have the experience to know what to do with this. Where do I implment this? Does this effectively "copy" the style from vB3 to PhotoPost or Classifieds or whatever? A tutorial or "step-by-step" to move a style from vB3 to PhotoPost would help a lot of us (I speak loosely here), and then a sample of applying a headtags within Photopost would polish this off. I hope this is a reasonable request.
Thank you,
-GateKeeper