Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing

Mar 13, 2003, 3:29 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:29 AM

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10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing

I wanted it listed in the category listing, but when I put in $meta_name theres nothing there, like it doesn't know what the metaname value is??
It works fine in the category pages (site_html.pl) but in the category listing it doesnt show..... Anybody know how to do this.

It's just the 4th cell from the DB i want there shouldn't be that hard.

Put in your email so I can pay you if you have paypal.

Mar 13, 2003, 3:44 AM

Andy

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:44 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

A long way around it, is to add something like this;

Code:
my (@sliced, $meta_name); 
open(DATA, "./data/data.db") || &cgierr("Can't open data file. Reason: $!"); 
DATAW: while (<DATA>) { 

  if (/|$category_name|/) {  
      @sliced = split("|",$_); 
      $meta_name = $sliced[4]; 
      last DATAW; 
  } 
}

$meta_name should then hold the value of the 5th field in categories.db, which is the 'Meta Description'.

Hope that helps Smile

(untested)

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Andy: Mar 13, 2003, 3:51 AM

Mar 13, 2003, 3:47 AM

Paul

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:47 AM

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Re: [Andy] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

WTF is slice("|", $_); Wink

Mar 13, 2003, 3:49 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:49 AM

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Re: [Andy] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Okay... Where do I put this code??

I thourght meta_name just couldn't be used in the category listings only in category pages??

Mar 13, 2003, 3:49 AM

Andy

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:49 AM

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Re: [Paul] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Whoops...that was supposed to be 'split'. Too much PHP coding Tongue

(at least I didn't put 'explode'...lol) .I'll edit my above post....

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 13, 2003, 3:52 AM

Andy

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Mar 13, 2003, 3:52 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

That needs to go in site_html_category, if you are using site_html.pl. Just after;

Code:
my ($output);

As I said before, its not guaranteed to work :p

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 13, 2003, 4:02 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:02 AM

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Re: [Andy] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Damn.. It won't build.. I'm getting a long error...

How come I can't just write $meta_name and it puts the meta name there??

Mar 13, 2003, 4:04 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:04 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

This is how a line in categories db look like
9|T/Tawny_Roberts|Tawny Roberts||P|Porn||

I just want the "P" from the line to be shown.... Is that hard??

Mar 13, 2003, 4:14 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:14 AM

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WTF..... 20$ instead of 10$ for the right answer In reply to

20$ for the help, I really need this :-)

Mar 13, 2003, 6:18 AM

Andy

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Mar 13, 2003, 6:18 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

What the error? Send me a PM, and I'll give it a go for you. Its easier to debug when you can see whats happening Tongue

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 13, 2003, 6:28 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 13, 2003, 6:28 AM

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Re: [Andy] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

PM..?? What's that, I'm kinda a newbee :-(

Sure, give me your e-mail and tell me what PM is??

Mar 13, 2003, 6:34 AM

Andy

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Mar 13, 2003, 6:34 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Email: webmaster@linkssql.net

A PM is a Private Message Wink

You can get to it by clicking on my name, and then clicking 'Send Private Message' in my profile :)

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andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 13, 2003, 10:00 AM

PerlFlunkie

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Mar 13, 2003, 10:00 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Wouldn't it be as simple as adding this red bit to this code in site_html_templates.pl?

sub site_html_link {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine is used to display what a link should look
# like.

my %rec = @_;

# Set new and pop to either 1 or 0 for templates.
($rec{'isNew'} eq 'Yes') ? ($rec{'isNew'} = 1) : (delete $rec{'isNew'});
($rec{'isPopular'} eq 'Yes') ? ($rec{'isPopular'} = 1) : (delete $rec{'isPopular'});

return &load_template ('link.html', {
detailed_url => "$db_detailed_url/$rec{'ID'}$build_extension",

meta_name => $meta_name,
%rec,
%globals
});
}

Leonard
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Mar 14, 2003, 7:43 AM

Andy

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Mar 14, 2003, 7:43 AM

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Re: [PerlFlunkie] 10$ via paypal for letting me know how to show the metaname in category listing In reply to

Its for a category....not link Wink

He also said he's using site_html.pl, and not templates (although that would be a hell of a lot easier)

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 16, 2003, 4:35 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 16, 2003, 4:35 AM

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Found out for myself In reply to

Hehe... I found out for myself... Well, almost, I have to redo the entire datebase, but wtf..... Andy, you have the 10$ one of theese days... I'm not giving 20 since I found out for myself :-)

Mar 17, 2003, 4:58 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 17, 2003, 4:58 AM

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Hi Andy In reply to

Hi... I've sent the 10 bucks... See ya

Mar 17, 2003, 5:17 AM

grantw

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Mar 17, 2003, 5:17 AM

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Re: [jorgenm] Hi Andy In reply to

Can someone explain how this would be done using templates please, I really need the description and keywords on each category page?

thanks, grant

Mar 17, 2003, 5:49 AM

jorgenm

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Mar 17, 2003, 5:49 AM

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I dont think you can In reply to

Actually, I never got it to work, I just took my keywords and exchanged them with the description (damn, what a work) in my database. Descriptions CAN be used everywhere, so thats how I got around it :-)