String Plugin

feedback would be most appreciated 😊

My feedback would be two-fold :

1 - Thanks for letting me see the plugin ahead of everyone else and 2 - Thanks for such a fantastic plugin! 😊

I used it on a site for Meta information and page titles and it’s really really really simple to set up and get going.

Fantastic work!! 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

BTW Mark: if you haven’t yet, check out the newest version I posted to the site. I changed it somewhat to support conditionals and such between tag pairs.

BTW Mark: if you haven’t yet, check out the newest version I posted to the site. I changed it somewhat to support conditionals and such between tag pairs.

Already downloaded 😉 Will check it out later. Thanks again for such a great plugin.

Best wishes,

Mark

Ender, I was using your great plugin to insert the title, meta keywords and meta description, until I realized that it completely ruins my website in IE8. (I am not sure about IE7, because I don’t have it installed on my PC).

Do you think this can be fixed?

sorry for the late response, the forums didn’t notify me when you posted this. the string plugin doesn’t output anything to the browser directly, so there must’ve been some error in the code you were trying to output. if you could post your template code perhaps someone could identify the cause of the problem. I’ve used this plugin for a half dozen or so sites now and haven’t seen any related IE8 problems.

Hi,

This is working great. One question: I need to pass a category heading in to my <title> tag.

The following does not work, returns ‘Learning Communities: ’ followed by a string of gibberish:

{exp:string:set name="meta-title"}
    Learning Communities: {exp:channel:category_heading channel="learning-communities"}: {category_name}{/exp:channel:category_heading}
{/exp:string:set}

Is there a way to get the category heading in to the meta title?

Thanks,

Ben

try adding parse=”inward” to the string:set tag.

otherwise try building the string in stages:

{exp:string:set name="meta-title"}Learning Communities:{/exp:string:set}
{exp:channel:category_heading channel="learning-communities"}
    {exp:string:append name="meta-title"}{category_name}{exp:string:append}
{/exp:channel:category_heading}

Thanks, adding parse=”inward” worked.

Do you have an example of how you’d build breadcrumb navigation with String?

I’ll use the code I use to do the breadcrumbs on emarketsouth.com as an example:

includes/breadcrumb template:

<div class="breadcrumbs">
    {exp:string:prepend name="breadcrumbs" separator="/"}<a href="/">home</a>{/exp:string:prepend}
    {exp:string:output name="breadcrumbs"}
</div>

Basically this will be embedded wherever breadcrumbs need to be output. It prepends the “home” link to the front of the breadcrumbs, using “/” as the separator between breadcrumb items.

The rest of the breadcrumbs are handled by building a string within the page’s base template. Using the template for our blog detail page as an example (http://www.emarketsouth.com/blog/details/how-to-create-standalone-edit-forms-in-expressionengine-2.0/):

template file: blog/details

Since we know that the template is part of the blog template group I initially set the breadcrumbs variable to link to the base blog page. Then down in the weblog:entries tag I append the weblog entry title as an unlinked breadcrumb since that’s the last step in the chain. Obviously this is a simple example but I hope it illustrates the concept well enough. If you had a template that served as a details page for multiple different weblogs you could use the {weblog} tag in the weblog:entries loop to set this dynamically.

The main advantage here is that you don’t need to worry about opening your weblog:entries tag up where you want to print the breadcrumbs. You can just compile the string as you go and print it out in the embedded template when you’re all done.