Metadata

Use this package if you don't need complex implementation over SEO metadata.

This package provides a way to include metadata tags and other SEO related values inside a view.

This is the most flexible way of inject metadata inside webpages without the need of a database.

Setup

Require this package inside your composer.json file.

{
    "iag/metadata": "^0.1.0"
}

Opt-in publishing metadata config file.

php artisan vendor:publish

You can now modify the new metadata.php configuration file inside config folder with your preferred default values.

Usage

This package is a metadata management suite to include metadata tags and related SEO values inside a view.

Before start using this package update the configuration file config/metadata.php with your default SEO informations.
Include a new stack inside your base layout view. This stack will collect all your SEO metadata.

// main layout

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <!-- Metadata -->
        @stack('metadata')

    </head>
    <body></body>
</html>

Now you're ready to include your metadata.

Choose a public view of your website content (ex. views/articles/page.blade.php) and include the metadata::metadata view entry point when you need it.

@extends('layouts.page')

@section('content')
<section>
    <h2>{{ $article->title }}</h2>

    <div>{{ $article->body }}</div>
</section>
@endsection

// push metadata view on the stack
@push('metadata')
    @include('metadata::metadata', [
        'title' => $article->title, // <- use the model title to contextualize the title metadata
        'author' => 'John Doe'      // <- or simply overrides default author value at runtime
    ])
@endpush

Advanced

You can include or exclude metadata by simply activating flags values inside your config file or at runtime.

    'facebook' => [
        'is_active' => true,

...

    'twitter' => [
        'is_active' => true,

Setting true to these directives enable a default facebook or twitter injection of metadata.

You can opt-in deactivate these section at runtime for a singular content in your website:

// push metadata view on the stack
@push('metadata')
    @include('metadata::metadata', [
        'title' => $article->title,
        'author' => $article->author->name,
        'twitter' => false, // don't use twitter metadata for a specific content
    ])
@endpush

Flags

facebook.is_active as facebook
Activate the facebook metadata section
twitter.is_active as twitter
Activate the twitter metadata section

Properties

Metadata package manage the following list of properties:

robots
Defines the behaviour that cooperative crawlers, or "robots", should use with the page.
Possible values: index, noindex, follow, nofollow, none, noodp, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex, nocache
referrer
Controls the Referer HTTP header attached to requests sent from the document.
Possible values: no-referrer, origin, no-referrer-when-downgrade, origin-when-cross-origin, same-origin, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin, unsafe-URL
canonical
Define the canonical url of your content.
description
Contains a short and accurate summary of the content of the page.
og:title as title
This metadata is used inside head section to assign a title for search engine and does not modify the main page title.
og:url
og:description as description
og:type as type
Describe the type of the content.
Possible values: website, article, music, video, book, profile
og:locale
fb:app_id
Facebook App Id.
twitter:card as card_type
Twitter card type.
Possible values: summary, summary_large_image, app, player
twitter:site as site
Twitter referred @site.
twitter:creator as author
Twitter referred @username.
og:image as image_url
An image URL which should represent your object within the graph.
og:image:type as image_type
A MIME type for the image.
og:image:width as image_width
The number of pixels wide.
og:image:height as image_height
The number of pixels high.
og:image:alt as image_alt
A description of what is in the image (not a caption). If the page specifies an og:image it should specify this property.