Excepts stripped of markup (for meta descriptions)

Aleksandersen · 2007-05-17 19:13:23

Hi,

How can I print excepts stripped of markup?

<meta name="description" value="Except without <html>markup</html>, please.">

I use excepts with markup several places on my site. But in the example above, I would like it without the markup.

maniqui · 2007-05-17 19:26:00

You can do this:
http://sonspring.com/journal/lazy-textpattern-seo

Or use this:
etz_striptags

ruud · 2007-05-17 19:27:04

<meta name="description" value="<txp:php>echo strip_tags(excerpt(array()));</txp:php>">

Aleksandersen · 2007-05-17 19:44:47

Thanks, Ruud. :) Does that work with all txp tags?

els · 2007-05-17 19:58:58

maniqui wrote:

You can do this:
http://sonspring.com/journal/lazy-textpattern-seo

Thanks maniqui for this link. Until now I used a custom field for the description, but often forgot to fill it. This method is perfect!

ruud · 2007-05-17 19:59:27

It should work with all TXP tags that output (X)HTML code

Aleksandersen · 2007-05-17 21:29:30

Can someone spot my syntax error?

<meta name="description" content="<txp:php>if excerpt(array()) {
   echo(strip_tags(excerpt(array()));
} else {
   echo("Default description."); }</txp:php>">

ruud · 2007-05-17 21:36:51

Add ( ) around the “if” condition and add another closing ) at the end of the strip_tags line, just before the semicolon.

PS. this is shorter:

<meta name="description" content="<txp:php>echo (excerpt(array()) ? strip_tags(excerpt(array())) : 
'Default description.');</txp:php>">

Last edited by ruud (2007-05-17 21:40:35)

Aleksandersen · 2007-06-04 01:20:25

I cannot see why this code does not work. Anyone spotting my error? A shorter version would be appriciated too!

<meta name="description" content="<txp:php>if (except(array())) {
echo(strip_tags(excerpt(array()));
echo(' There are '); echo(comments_count(array)); echo(' comments.'); }
else { echo('Default description.'); }</txp:php>">

Last edited by Aleksandersen (2007-06-04 01:20:56)

FireFusion · 2007-06-04 04:32:38

Good topic

Mary · 2007-06-04 05:03:49

Your first line says except rather than excerpt.

ruud · 2007-06-04 06:40:05

daniel, you’ve made a typo, it’s “excerpt”, not “except” and on the second line you have one “)” too many.

PS. you don’t need “( )” around things you want to echo.

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Excepts stripped of markup (for meta descriptions)

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