canonical url and symlink with Revo

Quote from: clareoconsulting at Jun 05, 2013, 10:41 AM

Quote from: wshawn at Jun 05, 2013, 10:28 AM

you want both pages to appear as canonical?

I'm pretty sure that's not what he wanted - as I read it, he wanted the symlink resource to have a canonical link to the actual non-symlink resource URL that the symlink points to, not to its own URL.

The Wayfinder?includeDocs is his easiest choice.

Quote from: wshawn at Jun 05, 2013, 10:53 AM

The Wayfinder?includeDocs is his easiest choice.

Agreed. Could well be easier to go that route.

I can see, however, a use case where it may not be the easiest. {smile}. In the case where non-technical users are the ones doing ongoing maintenance, having them edit the Wayfinder call may not be the easiest/safest option. In that case, symlink or weblink are possibly better non-technical user options.

As always, many ways to do things with MODX, eh? That's what makes it my go-to CMS.

Clareoconsulting's solution is perfect, I've tested it and it works fine!
I'm on modxcloud and there are no problem about performance (site of about 100 pages).

I didn't think about Wayfinder &includeDocs, anyway I think that this solution would redirect the user to the target resource, while my goal is to keep the user in the current section.

Thanks again to everybody!

Quote from: tillilab at Jun 05, 2013, 02:32 PM

well, I think it works perfect! thanks

I wanted to do something like it, but using the key_class as control, something like:

<!--?php
$docid      = $modx--->resource->get('id');
$resource   = $modx->getObject('modResource', $docid);
 
if (($modx->resource->class_key)=='symlink')
{
    $url = $modx->makeUrl($resource->get('content'), '', '', 'full');
    return '<link rel="canonical" href="' . $url . '">';
}

but $modx->resource->class_key always output "content".... so I think your solution will help me, thanks again!

Almost right.. See my pull request on Github
https://github.com/BobRay/Canonical/pull/1/files

I know its kind of old treat, but this worked for us:



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