Category link title -> meta description

[BeamerInTilburg.nl]

Hi,

 

The title (alt) in my category tree links are now showing the category description (which is quite long). I want to show the meta description instead.

 

I (guess I) know which files I have to edit:

modules/blockcategories/blockcategories.php

public function getTree($resultParents, $resultIds, $maxDepth, $id_category = 1, $currentDepth = 0)
{
 global $link;
 $children = array();
 if (isset($resultParents[$id_category]) AND sizeof($resultParents[$id_category]) AND ($maxDepth == 0 OR $currentDepth < $maxDepth))
  foreach ($resultParents[$id_category] as $subcat)
   $children[] = $this->getTree($resultParents, $resultIds, $maxDepth, $subcat['id_category'], $currentDepth + 1);
 if (!isset($resultIds[$id_category]))
  return false;
 return array('id' => $id_category, 'link' => $link->getCategoryLink($id_category, $resultIds[$id_category]['link_rewrite']),
  'name' => $resultIds[$id_category]['name'], 'desc'=> $resultIds[$id_category]['description'],
  'children' => $children);
}

 

 

modules/blockcategories/category-tree-branch.tpl

<a href="{$node.link}" {if isset($currentCategoryId) && ($node.id == $currentCategoryId)}class="selected"{/if} title="{$node.desc|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{$node.name|escape:html:'UTF-8'}</a>

 

I kinda understand the code, however I lack the skill of adding new features. Can someone help to let the function getTree also return the category's meta description?

 

Thanks!

[BeamerInTilburg.nl]

Anyone?

 

Seems to me like an important feature, which should be as default in Prestashop? This is what you want for SEO, right?

Edited May 26, 2012 by dries863 (see edit history)

[feroca]

Any solution to this question...?

 

It's hard to find out there...

 

Help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks a lot.

[DelaneySecure]

Anyone? I've found '$node.title' or '$node.desc' but I cannot work out how to get the meta description value to come through in category-tree-branch.tpl. Would we get penalised for duplicate content on 2 pages if we use $node.desc?

[vkmaxx]

I'm testing a solution for this meta title -> category link problem on this gift shop. If it will be OK I will post solution (just give me 2 days).

Edited August 20, 2018 by vkmaxx (see edit history)

[vkmaxx]

OK, in blockcategories.php you need to change:

if (isset($resultIds[$id_category]))
		{
			$link = $this->context->link->getCategoryLink($id_category, $resultIds[$id_category]['link_rewrite']);
			$name = $resultIds[$id_category]['name'];
			$desc = $resultIds[$id_category]['description'];
		}
else
		$link = $name = $desc = '';
 
		$return = array(
			'id' => $id_category,
			'link' => $link,
			'name' => $name,
			'desc'=> $desc,
			'children' => $children 
		);
		return $return;

to

if (isset($resultIds[$id_category]))
		{
			$link = $this->context->link->getCategoryLink($id_category, $resultIds[$id_category]['link_rewrite']);
			$name = $resultIds[$id_category]['name'];
			$desc = $resultIds[$id_category]['description'];
			$meta = ("" == $resultIds[$id_category]['meta_title']) ? $resultIds[$id_category]['name'] : $resultIds[$id_category]['meta_title'];
		}
else
	$link = $name = $desc = $meta = '';
 
	$return = array(
		'id' => $id_category,
		'link' => $link,
		'name' => $name,
		'desc'=> $desc,
		'children' => $children, 
		'meta' => $meta  
	);
	return $return;

then

SELECT c.id_parent, c.id_category, cl.name, cl.description, cl.link_rewrite

to

SELECT c.id_parent, c.id_category, cl.name, cl.description, cl.link_rewrite, cl.meta_title

and finaly in category-tree-branch.tpl from

<a href="{$node.link|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"{if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId} class="selected"{/if} title="{$node.desc|strip_tags|trim|truncate:255:'...'|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">
		{$node.name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'} </a>

to

<a href="{$node.link|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}" {if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId}class="selected"{/if}
		title="{$node.meta|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">{$node.name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}</a>

More details in Polish are available here on my blog. Best Regards!

[Guest]

Then why are you posting in the ENGLISH section?