Changes in Version 0.954

In addition to "per section" information, you can now have "per page" information, by editing the editing form that is stored in the setup table. Fields can be added to that form and then used in the template.

This version expands the role of the page hit count table to hold all of the information particular to that page, while the contents table now only holds the sections of data. With this in mind, the "count" table is now called the "pages" table. The update will move the contents of the "page_title" field from the contents table to the pages table.

The menus are still generated by the sections in the content table.

To add new items to a page, edit the "edit_header" item info in the setup table to add the new input fields to the edit mode page. Note that all of the added fields must be listed in the comma-separated list in the hidden input field named "fieldlist".

<tr>
	<td colspan="3" nowrap>
		Keywords: <input name="keywords" type="text" id="keywords" size="40" value="$keywords" />
		Description: <input name="description" type="text" id="description" size="40" value="$description" />
		<input name="fieldlist" type="hidden" id="fieldlist" value="keywords,description" />
	</td>
</tr>

All of the variables in the pages table are now available for use within the template.

For example, to show the number of page views & the last edit date, the folowing PHP code should be placed in the template file:

<?php echo "$page_views<br />$last_edit"; ?>

Setting meta tags

One main purpose of these user-defined variables is in the setting of web page META tags, such as keywords and descriptions used by some search engines. From the above added section, the following code might be added to the head section of the template:

<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo "$keywords"; ?>" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo "$description"; ?>" />

This would result in the entries for keywords and description to be placed in the appropriate locations in the head of the generated web page.