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Paul Kemper	Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:06:07 pm Hi all, I am impressed with eZ and it's multilingual capabilities. However: I could not find any reference to multilingual meta tags. I did see the descriptions on multi-lingual page content, admin interface, URL aliases. But can I also have the page title, description/keyword meta tag in a translated version? Paul Kemper http://www.tauros.eu
Frédéric DAVID	Wednesday 26 November 2008 1:15:58 am The page title is already translated. For description/keyword meta tag, if you have your website in different siteaccess, you can define foreach site different meta tags. For example, if you have a siteaccess fr, language used is french. You put in your site.ini MetaDataArray[description]=Système de Gestion de Contenu MetaDataArray[keywords]=cms, publish, e-commerce, gestion de contenu and in a siteaccess en, language used is english. You put in your site.ini MetaDataArray[description]=Content Management System MetaDataArray[keywords]=cms, publish, e-commerce, content management Blog : http://www.frefred.fr/blog/ez-publish feZ Meta Data : http://projects.ez.no/fezmetadata
Arnaud Lafon	Wednesday 26 November 2008 1:37:02 am Hi Paul, all the metas are usually built by a template called page_head.tpl and you'll be able to override it. So If you define some class attribute like "site_title" or "site_metas" and enable translation, then you'll be able to customize your <meta /> and <title> tags for all your page. Looking for information about SQLI ? Looking for a new job in Paris ? Please contact me at alafon [at] sqli [dot] com
Paul Kemper	Wednesday 26 November 2008 1:57:29 am Contrary to Frédéric's example, I assume that every page in my site can have different meta tag contents. Am I correct? Paul Kemper http://www.tauros.eu
Arnaud Lafon	Wednesday 26 November 2008 2:08:48 am Yes it's possible. You'll have to modify the page_head template, but it's quite simple. Looking for information about SQLI ? Looking for a new job in Paris ? Please contact me at alafon [at] sqli [dot] com
Paul Kemper	Wednesday 26 November 2008 2:59:35 am Thanx Arnaud, I will dive in and see if I can get a sample to work. Kind regards, Paul Kemper http://www.tauros.eu
Arnaud Lafon	Wednesday 26 November 2008 4:26:11 am You're welcome. Just let me know If you need more information about this. Looking for information about SQLI ? Looking for a new job in Paris ? Please contact me at alafon [at] sqli [dot] com
Greg Lakomy	Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:21:37 pm You could also use global persistent_variable and set your title/keywords/description on individual objects and then pass those values back to page_layout or page_head Example: Set this in your template: {set scope=global $persistent_variable=hash( 'seo_description',$node.object.data_map.description, 'seo_keywords', $node.object.data_map.keywords, 'seo_title', $node.object.data_map.title)} Retrieve in page_head: {$module_result.content_info.persistent_variable['seo_title'].content\|wash} Developer http://www.duoconsulting.com
Gaetano Giunta	Tuesday 02 December 2008 3:29:55 pm I second Greg's solution - it allows to have different meta tags per every content object without creating a mess of ini settings or having to fecth the current node again in the pagelayout. Plus, since objects are translated, you will have automatically translated the meta-tags, too. Just remember that you will have to add the template code that sets the persistent variable to every template overriding node/view/full of your website, or at least for all the content classes that have the meta-tags attributes. An also remember to check in the pagelayout to see if the persistent var has been populated before using it. When you access a module other than content (such as user/login) it will not contain your meta-tags data. Principal Consultant International Business Member of the Community Project Board