Meta Description = RT TV with stripped HTML?

Hi,

I’ve now reached the stage where living without Modx is not an option.

I have a quick query -

I have a blog running at the mo and I want the meta description to be the same as a TV for that document. This isn’t an issue; it’s just that the TV has rich text content and I need the description to have all the formatting stripped away.

Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks.

Make a snippet to grab the TV and use strip_tags() on it.

http://il.php.net/strip_tags

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 08, 2008, 06:47 AM

Make a snippet to grab the TV and use strip_tags() on it.

http://il.php.net/strip_tags

Thanks for the link - I’ll try and solve this. My PHP side of the brain is somewhat underdeveloped, though I can have a crack.

Should only take two or three lines of code; check the API docs for getting the value of a TV, then run that through the strip_tags() function, then return that. Will be a good one to learn on

Okay I’ve tried my best but to no avail. The code I’ve ended up on is as follows:



I’m at a bit of a loss; any help would be appreciated.

Another way to accomplish this is with PHx.
If you install PHx, then all you have to do is output this in your template:

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#strip

PHx can break things in some situations - recursive or nested tags, because it replaces some of the core parser. But I have it installed on every site I do, and can’t live without it now. And the functionality it brings is going to be part of the new core in 0.9.7.

Quote from: netProphET at Apr 08, 2008, 10:53 PM

Another way to accomplish this is with PHx.
If you install PHx, then all you have to do is output this in your template:

[*tvname:notags*]

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#strip

PHx can break things in some situations - recursive or nested tags, because it replaces some of the core parser. But I have it installed on every site I do, and can’t live without it now. And the functionality it brings is going to be part of the new core in 0.9.7.

Awesome! Thanks very much. I’ve already used PHx to format my dates and it seems to work perfectly with the meta description.