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An extension for GErcoli/HTMLTags to make managing common meta tags easier.

Installation

Include this into your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "gercoli/metatags": "dev-master"
    }
}

Using the class

The MetaTags class uses fully qualified name spaces, so for easier use, add use GErcoli\MetaTags\MetaTags into your php file. Secondly, the class has been designed to be used statically and the various setter methods can be chained together.

Example of a simple tag

    MetaTags::setTitle("This is the page title");

    echo MetaTags::getTitle();
    // output:
    // "This is the page title"

    MetaTags::renderTitle();
    // output:
    // <title>This is the page title</title>

    MetaTags::setCharset("UTF-8")
        ->setDescription("This is the page \"description\".")
        ->renderAll();
    // output:
    //  <meta charset="UTF-8">
    //  <title>This is the page title</title>
    //  <meta name="description" content="This is the page &quot;description&quot;.">

Custom tags

It is inevitable that there will tags that you need to output/render that do not have easy-to-access class methods, for this purpose I've added the addCustomTag(HTMLTag) method, where you can use the dependant class \GErcoli\HTMLTags\HTMLTag to create an HTMLTag and insert it manually.

    // Create the custom tag via the HTMLTag class:
    $tag = (new HTMLTag("meta"))
        ->setAttribute("http-equiv","Content-Language")
        ->setAttribute("content","en");

    // Add the created tag to the MetaTags object,
    // and render only the very last tag that was added:
    MetaTags::addCustomTag($tag)->renderLast();

    // output:
    // <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">