Michael
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jQuery add to add CMS record to <meta name="description" content=""> and remove all html.
I need to add content to the <meta name="description" content=""> using a field from a CMS field <?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?>. The code below achieves this and works fine, but the problem is that it also includes html that I need to remove such as:
<h1></h1>
<p></p>
So this is what it looks like: <meta name="description" content="<h1>Wow!</h1><p>T
Below is the code I'm using to add the CMS field <?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?> to the meta description - content, but I can't figure out how to strip out the:
<h1></h1>
<p></p>
Anyone have suggestions on how I can remove the html markup (or even better a solution to remove all html markup) leaving only plain text to place into the <meta name="description" content="Wow! The dogs jumped the fence to welcome our guest"> so it read as seen in this sentence?
The CMS field <?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?> returns the results = <h1>Wow!</h1><p>The dogs jumped the fence to welcome our guest</p>
<h1></h1>
<p></p>
So this is what it looks like: <meta name="description" content="<h1>Wow!</h1><p>T
Below is the code I'm using to add the CMS field <?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?> to the meta description - content, but I can't figure out how to strip out the:
<h1></h1>
<p></p>
Anyone have suggestions on how I can remove the html markup (or even better a solution to remove all html markup) leaving only plain text to place into the <meta name="description" content="Wow! The dogs jumped the fence to welcome our guest"> so it read as seen in this sentence?
The CMS field <?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?> returns the results = <h1>Wow!</h1><p>The dogs jumped the fence to welcome our guest</p>
<meta name="description" content="">
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('meta[name=description]').attr('content', '<?php echo $storyData['comment']; ?>');
})
</script>SOLUTION
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Thanks for the help... I added preg_replace to remove a few other remaining elements.
<meta name="description" content="">
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('meta[name=description]').attr('content', '<?php echo preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]{2,8};/i", " ", strip_tags($storyData['comment'])); ?>');
})
</script>
Yes ok but you can still build the meta tag dynamically based on the data - you are doing it already in javascript by outputing the value to a javascript call - just not sure why you can't put that into a page variable that you use in your template to output the meta value.
I do this all the time - all meta / title data is page specific and generated with the page - the template calls a function that gets the relevant meta tag for the page being generated at render time.
You can do it your way but seems like a bit of a complicated way of doing it. If you do have to do it that way then strip_tags is what you are looking for.
I do this all the time - all meta / title data is page specific and generated with the page - the template calls a function that gets the relevant meta tag for the page being generated at render time.
You can do it your way but seems like a bit of a complicated way of doing it. If you do have to do it that way then strip_tags is what you are looking for.
ASKER
I usually do create the meta description at the time of the page creation, but in this particular case - data is being imported in the CMS via a CSV file which includes up to 200+ records on a weekly basis by the client and that's the catch. I have to build something that will generate the meta description off of a particular record field entry that will allow the client the ability to import the 200+ records and get back to business - with no need to manage the meta descriptions.
I'll have a look at strip_tags