meta description SEO

[squishi]

I looked into this a while ago. Decided today it has to be done!
The meta description tag of the user profile pages needs to have some personalized information.
So I need to query the username and maybe other userfields in the header of my forum, if the page is a profile.

The if-condition is not the problem. But from what I remember, there is no hook for a plugin to add such a query to the header.

[Lynne]

You can probably use one of the global_* hooks.

[squishi]

I found the old thread again:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200639

Back then, I did not know that much about plugins.
Will look into it.

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I hooked it into global_setup_complete, as this seems to be the place where I can query the data.
$userinfo['userid'] is not recognized at this stage, though.

PHP Code:

$meta_result = $db->query_first("SELECT field6, field1, field9
FROM vb_userfield
WHERE userid LIKE ".$userinfo['userid']); 


Result:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT field6, field1, field9
FROM vb_userfield
WHERE userid LIKE;

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global_start gives me the same result.
global_complete does not recognize the query:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /forum/includes/functions.php(5721) : eval()'d code on line 16

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I don't get this to work.

Suppose I take the userid from the get variable. That should work.
I can hook this into global_setup_complete or global_start. global_comple will give me an error.

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('g', array(
    'u' => TYPE_INT
));
$uid = $vbulletin->GPC['u'];

$meta_result = $db->query_read("SELECT field6, field1, field9
FROM vb_userfield WHERE userid LIKE ".$uid);

if ($meta_result){
    $aboutme = $meta_result['field1'];
}
unset($meta_result); 


When I enter $aboutme in the headinclude template, the variable is empty.