I need to create db driven meta keywords/description. I would store these records in a database, xml format i presume; since it would be per culture.
How would i go about doing this?
any feedback, suggestions, help, greatly appreciated. thanks
MVC 3 building dynamic meta keywords meta description functionality for multi-culture site
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1 - Get keywords/description (from your Model) in your controller
2 - Assign them to a Viewbag property
3 - Display the viewbag property in your layout (or view)
OR
Assign your model with keywords/description and give it to your view as a parameter in your controller.
About the culture :
You just have to put it as a parameter in your method controller (and in your route).
After that, you have to give this parameter to your method retrieving keywords/description.
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Make a parent interface for all your model objects. and you could have:
public interface IBaseMasterViewDto
{
int PageId { get; set; }
string Title { get; set; }
string MetaKeywords { get; set; }
string MetaDescription { get; set; }
}
Thus in your master view you could use
<%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage<IBaseMasterViewDto>" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr">
<head>
<title><%: Model.Title %></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<%: Model.MetaKeywords %>" />
<meta name="description" content="<%: Model.MetaDescription %>" />
Hope it helps.
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Shane,
I answered a somewhat similar question here on SO a while back. I didn't cover the cultural elements, but fujiy's answer above goes towards that in a way. Also, alexl's interface is a FAR better solution to loose typed viewdata elements (as per my answer in the similar question). anyway, here's what i answered 'on the day' for that question:
What you need to change is just the call to method that returns the keywork/description
You can use Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture to determine the user culture.
You need to change at web.config to auto change the culture.
Ex.: (Web.Config)
(Controller)
(View)