pixSeoPlugin - SEO tools for symfony 1.4 projects

Introduction

This plugin is born from the recurrent needs of having satelitte pages and an easy way to handle page redirections. It includes now many features to handle daily SEO needs. This plugin only supports Doctrine ORM.

Installation

cd /your/symfony/project git clone git://github.com/pix-digital/pixSeoPlugin.git plugins/pixSeoPlugin

Enable the plugin in your ProjectConfiguration.class.php

[php]
public function setup()
{
    $this->enablePlugin('pixSeoPlugin');
}

Note: if used with pixCmsPlugin, always enable this plugin first

Add the following line before the class implementation in ProjectConfiguration.class.php

[php]
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/../plugins/pixSeoPlugin/lib/routing/pixSeoRoutingConfigHandler.class.php');
class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration

Rebuild your model

./symfony doctrine:build --all-classes

Rebuild SQL and import all the new tables in your database (or use the migrate task if you prefer)

./symfony doctrine:build-sql

Add a config_handlers.yml file with the following configuration in the application where you want to use pageSat module

[yaml]
config/routing.yml:
  class: pixSeoRoutingConfigHandler

Enable modules according to your needs in your application settings.yml (see below for each configuration)

Modules

pageRedirect

The pageRedirect module allows to specify an old url and the url it should be redirected to. If the "host" field is specified the script will only redirect if the current host matches (quite useful for multi domain setup)

Enable the module in your settings.yml

[yaml]
all:
  .settings:
    enabled_modules:
      - pageRedirectAdmin

pageSat

The pageSat module allows to create satellite pages in multiple languages and for several domains.

Enable the modules in your settings.yml

[yaml]
all:
  .settings:
    enabled_modules:
      - pageSat
      - pageSatAdmin

Filters

pageRedirectFilter

This filter works in conjunction with the pageRedirect module.

Enable the pageRedirect filter in your application filters.yml

[yaml]
pageRedirect:
  class: pageRedirectFilter

trackingFilter

This filter creates a cookie to store information about where the user is coming from (url, host, keywords)

• Installation

Enable the tracking filter in your application filters.yml

[yaml]
tracking:
  class: trackingFilter

• Usage

To collect information for your cookie at anytime

[php]
$cookie = $request->getCookie(sfConfig::get('app_cookie_name'));

Doctrine behaviors

PixMeta

This behavior adds 3 fields to your model: - meta_title - meta_description - meta_keywords

• Installation

  [yaml] YourModel: actAs: PixMeta: ~