Automatic functionality for records¶

What does the automatic functionality do?¶

By using the automatic functionality the following will be added to your records:

Backend:
- Fields of the core SEO extension:
  
  SEO title
  
  Robots: Index this page, Follow this page
  
  Opengraph fields: Title, Description, Image
  
  Twitter fields: Title, Description, Image, Card
  
  Canonical link
  
  Sitemap: Change frequency, Priority
- Functionality of Yoast SEO:
  
  Snippet preview
  
  Title and Description progress bar
  
  Readability Analysis
  
  SEO Analysis
  
  Focus keyword
  
  Advanced robots: Image index, Archive, Snippet
Frontend:
- Metatag tags:
  
  Description
  
  Opengraph
  
  Twitter
  
  Robots
- Canonical generation
- Page title based on SEO Title and Title field

Configuration for a record¶

To get all the functionality mentioned above you only have to set the table name and the GET parameters on which it responds to. This should be placed in a file within Configuration/TCA/Overrides of your extension (f.e. sitepackage):

<?php

\YoastSeoForTypo3\YoastSeo\Utility\RecordUtility::configureForRecord('tx_extension_record')
     ->setGetParameters([
         ['tx_extension_pi1', 'record']
     ]);

This will automatically set the TCA, Database fields and activate the frontend functionality.

Configuration options¶

The method configureRecord returns an object which has the following methods:

setGetParameters¶

Datatype: array
Default: none
Description: The GET parameters on where the frontend functionality should be activated. This should be a multidimensional array, which gives you the possibility to react to multiple situations.

Example

->setGetParameters([
   ['tx_extension_pi1', 'record'],
   ['tx_extension_pi1', 'record_preview']
])

setDefaultSeoFields¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will define if the default fields from EXT:seo should be added.

setYoastSeoFields¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will define if the fields from Yoast SEO should be added.

setSitemapFields¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will define if the fields "Change frequency" and "Priority" for Sitemap should be added.

setTypes¶

Datatype: string
Default: empty (all types)
Description: Defines on which types of the record the fields should be added.

setTitleField¶

Datatype: string
Default: title
Description: Sets the title field to another column.

setDescriptionField¶

Datatype: string
Default: description
Description: Sets the description field to another column.

setAddDescriptionField¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: false
Description: Adds the description column to both TCA and database (in case there's none already).

setFieldsPosition¶

Datatype: string
Default: after:title
Description: Sets the position of the TCA fields.

setOverrideTca¶

Datatype: array
Default: none
Description: Override TCA of the complete table. This can be useful if you want to change something of the TCA of the EXT:seo or Yoast SEO fields. This is needed because the automatic TCA generation is executed after all generated TCA, so trying to add this to one of the Overrides files will not take effect.

Example

->setOverrideTca([
   'columns' => [
      'seo_title' => [
         'config' => [
            'max' => 100
         ]
      ]
   ]
])

setGeneratePageTitle¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will enable/disable the functionality of the Page Title Provider in the frontend.

setGenerateMetaTags¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will enable/disable the rendering of the metatags in the frontend (in case you want to this yourself). This will not deactivate the canonical tag.

setGenerateRobotsTag¶

Datatype: boolean
Default: true
Description: This will enable/disable the rendering of the robots metatag in the frontend (in case you always want the robot settings from the page it's displayed on).

Example with EXT:news¶

EXT:news has his own sitemap fields and has multiple GET parameters to respond to. The basic configuration can be:

\YoastSeoForTypo3\YoastSeo\Utility\RecordUtility::configureForRecord('tx_news_domain_model_news')
     ->setGetParameters([
         ['tx_news_pi1', 'news'],
         ['tx_news_pi1', 'news_preview']
     ])
     ->setSitemapFields(false)
     ->setFieldsPosition('after:bodytext');

Note

EXT:news provides an own Page Title Provider, if you want to use the Page Title Provider of Yoast SEO you can unset the one from EXT:news with typoscript: config.pageTitleProviders.news >

Adding PageTsconfig¶

Make sure to add the needed PageTsconfig mentioned in Other Plugins