Joomla's robots settings ignored

leonel.oliveira
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #49024 by leonel.oliveira

Joomla's robots settings ignored was created by leonel.oliveira

Hello,

It seams that flexicontent is ignoring joomla's "robots" setting in global configuration, I have it set as "noindex, nofollow", but when i view source the meta tag is not present.

I have a menu item set as Flexicontent single item, the article "robots" is set to "use global".

Please check if there is an issue here.

Last edit: 10 years 9 months ago by leonel.oliveira.

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ggppdk
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10 years 9 months ago #49026 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Joomla's robots settings ignored

Hello

please always mention the FLEXIcontent version and revision

-- Flexicontent is Free but involves a big effort on our part.
Like the our support? (for a bug-free FC, despite having a long list of functions) Like the features? Like the ongoing development and future commitment to FLEXIcontent?
-- Add your voice to the FLEXIcontent JED listing with a 5-star...

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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #49027 by leonel.oliveira

Replied by leonel.oliveira on topic Joomla's robots settings ignored

Joomla version 3.3.3
Flexicontent version 2.2.0 r1932.

Last edit: 10 years 9 months ago by leonel.oliveira.

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10 years 9 months ago #49028 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Joomla's robots settings ignored

Hello

the menu configuration should be used if current menu item "matches"

Code:

// Overwrite with menu META data if menu matched
if (FLEXI_J16GE) {
	if ($menu_matches) {
		if (($_mp=$menu->params->get('menu-meta_description')))  $document->setDescription( $_mp );
		if (($_mp=$menu->params->get('menu-meta_keywords')))     $document->setMetadata('keywords', $_mp);
		if (($_mp=$menu->params->get('robots')))                 $document->setMetadata('robots', $_mp);
		if (($_mp=$menu->params->get('secure')))                 $document->setMetadata('secure', $_mp);
	}
}

the above code is inside the file:

components/com_flexicontent/views/item/view.html.php

you can see that this line should effect the robots:

Code:

if (($_mp=$menu->params->get('robots')))                 $document->setMetadata('robots', $_mp);

but indeed it only uses menu item setting and not global setting,

since it seems that $document object returned by Joomla helper function does not set the Global setting, it is left to be done by the component ...

we should use Joomla Global setting or add such a setting as a new FLEXIcontent component parameter

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10 years 9 months ago #49029 by leonel.oliveira

Replied by leonel.oliveira on topic Joomla's robots settings ignored

Yes, please do.

It would be extreamlly time consuming on big sites that majorly use flexicontent having to set the "robots" setting for each menu item.

I suggest something like:

Code:

// Set remaining META keys
$mdata = $item->metadata->toArray();
foreach ($mdata as $k => $v)
{
	if ($v)	$document->setMetadata($k, $v);
	else
		if ($k == "robots")	$document->setMetadata($k, $app->getCfg($k));
}

Thanks.

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