CakePHP SEO Plugin

A SEO plugin for cakePHP 3 to manage seo tags with ease. It comes with a Behavior, a Component, a View Cell and the default admin crud actions for each tables.

• The behavior helps you to generate some default tags for each model. You can use simple text, pattern, callbacks.
• The component inject tags in the view.
• The view cell helps you to add or edit tags directly in the admin view of a record.

Note: This plugin has been inspired by CakePHP-Seo-Plugin

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require orgasmicnightmare/cakephp-seo

Then update your database to create the new tables

bin/cake migrations migrate -p Seo

You can now access to the admin sections :

• yoursite/admin/seo/seo-uris
• yoursite/admin/seo/seo-titles
• yoursite/admin/seo/seo-meta-tags
• yoursite/admin/seo/seo-canonicals

Behavior

The SeoBehavior allows you to automatize the creation of seo fields when you add a new entry.

Configure the behavior, see below default configuration, and each time you will add an entry, all configured tags will be generated. It's a real time saver…

Later you can access to the data throw the admin sections or via the Seo cell box if in you add it in your model view.

default configuration is :

$_defaultConfig = [
    'urls' => [
        [   
            'url' => [
                'prefix' => false,
                'action' => 'view',
                '_' => [
                    'slug' => 'slug'
                ]
            ],
            'title' => 'Seo default title',
            'canonical' => true,
            'meta_tags' => [
                'og:type' => [
                    'content' => 'website',
                    'is_property' => true
                ],
                'og:description' => [
                    'content' => '{{content}}',
                    'is_property' => true
                ],
                'og:locale' => [
                    'callback' => 'getLocale',
                    'is_property' => true
                ],
                'twitter:description' => [
                    'content' => '{{content}}',
                    'is_property' => true
                ],
            ]
        ]
    ]
];

• urls an array of urls you want to add tags
• urls.url standard CakePHP route options array. This key has two specials keys:
  • _ used to pass some variable for the route ex : /brand/:slug
  • _callback a callback to generate a route options array
• urls.title Title pattern. Ex: {{name}}, will just use the field 'name' to fill the title tag.
• urls.canonical true if you want to add a canonical tag
• urls.meta_tags array of meta tags you want to add. Each key is a new tag name and support many options
  • callback a callback wich is executed to set the content of the tag (more on this later)
  • content a template to format the content. Ex : Hello {{name}} the text in the double accolade is a field of the entity.
  • is_property if true, the tag use the attribute "property" instead of "name".
  • is_http_equiv if true, the tag will have the attribute "is_http_equiv" set to true.

Component

The SeoComponent prepare and send informations to the view based on the URI.
To use it, just add it in your AppController.php or any child controllers.

default configuration is :

$_defaultConfig = [
    'excludePrefix' => ['admin'],
    'defaults' => [
        'title' => 'Default Title',
        'prefix' => null,
        'suffix' => null
    ],
    'templates' => [
        'meta' => '<meta{{attrs}}/>',
        'canonical' => '<link rel="canonical" href="{{content}}"/>'
    ]
];

• excludePrefix: bypass the process for theses prefixes
• defaults.title: the title tag
• defaults.prefix: prefix for the title tag
• defaults.suffix: suffix for the title tag

View Cell

You have access to all your seo data throw the regular admin urls (ex: yoursite/admin/seo/seo-titles).
But really it's not really helpfull and even say it… it's crappy

A cell view is here to help you to have all the seo information directly in the view you want.
You have a product admin edit view. in your Template/Admin/Products/edit.ctp, just add

    $cell = $this->cell('Seo.Seobox', ['uri' => Router::url(['_name' => 'catalogView', $product->slugPath])]);
    echo $cell;
?>

In this example, I use a named route but you can use a standard array. Just remember to use the route for which you want to add Seo metas, in this case the public view of a product.

Actually, the default template doesn't respect the CakePHP default layout, and you surely want to override. To do this, just follow the conventional way.