Hi,

I would like to use the settings/categories/description information at the bottom of the first page of the category search results.

This is to help with SEO, a lot of popular classified sites show a description of the category which really helps with SEO.

Can anyone suggest the code to use to show the description text in the search.php file?

You can see an example at the bottom of this page: https://www.locanto.co.uk/Men-s-Clothes/425/

Many thanks

@webcity
Function osc_search_category() could return currently selected category object, that could contain also description.

Thanks for the reply and help.

Could you please suggest the php code to just show the category details just on the first search results page for the category, not on page 2+ ?

Many thanks

@webcity
I do not know how osc_search_category(), but try to check this, it seems same issue has been solved here:
https://forums.osclasspoint.com/starter-osclass-premium-theme/category-description-4739/msg22089/#msg22089

Thanks for your help.

The code:
$cat = Category::newInstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id);
echo @$cat['s_description']

The code works great!

I would like to just show the description text on just the first page of search results, not on the second or more pages.
Can anyone suggest the additional code to use?

Also, what would be good is if I could use a location tag in the description text to help with SEO.

For example text:
This is a description of my category in <location> .

Would show:
This is a description of my category in London.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Many thanks

@webcity
This could work:
if(Params::getParam('iPage') <= 1) {
  $cat = Category::newInstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id);
  echo @$cat['s_description']
}


Thanks!

That works great :-)

Thanks!

That works great :-)

Please can you share the code you added? I don't seem to understand it. Like the HTML tag and the PHP. Did you only add the PHP or what?

Hi,

I inserted the code just after the navigation buttons  code at the search.php theme file.

Here is the code snippet including the existing code on the page:

         <div class="paginate"><?php echo eps_fix_arrow(osc_search_pagination()); ?></div>
    </div>
<br>  
   
<?php
  
  if(Params::getParam('iPage') <= 1) {
  $cat = Category::newInstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id);
echo "<h3>";   
echo osc_esc_html(meta_title());
echo "</h3> <br>";   
echo @$loc;
echo " ";   
echo @$cat['s_description'];
}
  ?>
 
  </div>
</div>

<?php osc_current_web_theme_path('footer.php') ; ?>

Hi,

I inserted the code just after the navigation buttons  code at the search.php theme file.

Here is the code snippet including the existing code on the page:

   

Code: [Select]

      <div class="paginate"><?php echo eps_fix_arrow(osc_search_pagination()); ?></div>
    </div>
<br>  
   
<?php
  
  if(Params::getParam('iPage') <= 1) {
  $cat = Category::newInstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id);
echo "<h3>";   
echo osc_esc_html(meta_title());
echo "</h3> <br>";   
echo @$loc;
echo " ";   
echo @$cat['s_description'];
}
  ?>
 
  </div>
</div>

<?php osc_current_web_theme_path('footer.php') ; ?>

Thank you very much.

I'm trying to use the location in the category description text.

For example : This is my description of <location> for sale items.

I've tried:

<?php echo @$loc ?>
But this doesn't show any info.

Can anyone suggest what code to use to show the location in the category description text?

Many thanks

@webcity

What you can use is on this page....https://docs.osclasspoint.com/hlocation-php

@webcity

What you can use is on this page....https://docs.osclasspoint.com/hlocation-php

Thanks for your help.

I can't seem to get the echo command to output any of the helpers when entering the code into the category description box.

If I navigate to a city, have <?php osc_city() ?> in the description box, it shows a blank.

Any suggestions would be welcome?

@webcity

This could work:
<?php echo osc_esc_html($search_location); ?>


@webcity

This could work:

Code: [Select]

<?php echo osc_esc_html($search_location); ?>


Thanks for your help mwindey.

I couldn't get that to work either. I think it maybe because I'm calling the information from the category description with:
echo @$cat['s_description'];
and then embedding another echo command?

My programming skills are pretty basic, usually based google searches lol.

Any suggestions welcome.