How Would I Get Home Page Meta Data On Another Page?

Store Builder Questions
1

The home page isn't technically a "page" right? So I can't utilise the normal method using "fn_get_page_data".

{$_page_data = 1|fn_get_page_data}

I want to do this for a general business description on a contact page (local business schema).

Has anyone managed to do this? or could suggest how?

thanks

2

You can try this code:

{if $runtime.controller == 'pages' && $runtime.mode == 'view' && $smarty.request.page_id == 123}

{/if}

where 123 is the ID of the Contact Us page (can be found in the admin panel)

3

Hey, thanks for getting back to be, sorry if I was unclear, but I want to grab the home page meta data that is already set in the CMS:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zu369yr71vujs1w/Screenshot%202016-01-14%2015.16.22.png?dl=0

I then want to output it on the contact page some how. I don't think I could access the homepage meta data with this could I?

4

I understand, but in this case additional code modifications will be required.

5

I don't quite understand how that last code will help, requesting $page.meta_description is going to return the contact page meta description?

What variable would I be using inside that IF to get the actual description?

6

Our solution assumes that you will just copy the description from admin panel and paste it to the mentioned code. I do not think that you often change meta description for the home page, right?

But if it does not suit you, additional custom development work is required.

7

I've got no problem with putting the markup on the contact page, I have managed that already in a custom block!

My problem is getting the meta data for the homepage from the CMS.

I do not want it hard-coded. This could be updated in future by a client or their SEO team.

8

I'm not sure if I understand correctly but CSC has a feature to copy the meta data to other pages that do not have meta data from the Default layout meta data information.

9

Try to use HTML block with Smarty support and the following code:

{$meta_description = $runtime.layout.layout_id|fn_get_home_meta_description}

and add PHP function to your addon:

function fn_get_home_meta_description($layout_id=0, $lang_code = CART_LANGUAGE)
{
    $meta_description = '';
    $home_location = db_get_field("SELECT location_id FROM ?:bm_locations WHERE dispatch = ?s AND layout_id = ?i", 'index.index', $layout_id);
    if (!empty($home_location)) {
        $meta_description = db_get_field("SELECT meta_description FROM ?:bm_locations_descriptions WHERE location_id = ?i AND lang_code = ?s", $home_location, $lang_code);
    }
    return $meta_description; 
}

(!) Not tested

10

@The Tool - Not really suitable as the page I'm trying to pull out the data on has its own meta data already which I do not want to alter.

@eComLabs - Helpful as always! Disappointing to resort to a custom query, but thank you works great! :-)

11

There is a built in method that will get that meta too, based on dispatch:

use Tygh\BlockManager\Location;


Location::instance()->get(‘index.index’);

If you have that in a general func stash, you can use it in Smarty just about anywhere by making a wrapper:

function fn_get_location_wrap($dispatch = ‘index.index’) {

return Location::instance()->get(‘index.index’);

}

True you can assign it to a view, but you can also grab it right from TPL with:

{$loc = fn_get_location_wrap()}

{$loc.meta_description}

Now, with the other method mentioned above, you need a layout ID. In order to get the layout ID: Registry::get(‘runtime.layout.layout_id’) at controllers/funcs or $runtime.layout.layout_id at smarty. If you are using schema as JSON-LD dont forget to clean it with SecurityHelper::sanitizeHtml() (use Tygh\Tools\SecurityHelper;)