Re: checking for sorted pages

Tim Stalker <[email protected]> wrote in message <mailman.3782.1208377906.5462.xaraya_user-gn8pmO+6nszQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

> I'm wondering if anyone can help me think of a way to add a noindex  
> metatag to pages with the sort=hits, title, ratings, etc. in the url.  
> I don't need these pages in any search engine index. So far I've  
> thought to use xarservergetcurrenturl and then compare that value to  
> something containing the sort parameters. I don't think Xaraya has a  
> "like" operator in the xar:if conditionals, unless I'm mistaken. It  
> would be cool to test the current page's url against some thing like  
> "if current url contains "sort=hits", then add the meta tag." To do  
> this from the theme's header block would be ideal, but I can't figure  
> out how to check to see if a sorted page can have the tag added to it.
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> -- 
> Tim Stalker
> <a href="http://www.wiseheat.com">test</a>

You could cache the nofollow from within your display template
<xar:if condition="!empty($sort)"> 
    <xar:set name="dummy">#xarVarSetCached('Blocks.mycache', 'nofollow',1)#</xar:set>
</xar:if>

then in the meta block template add

<xar:if condition="xarVarIsCached('Blocks.mycache', 'nofollow')">
    <xar:set name="$nofollow">#xarVarGetCached('Blocks.mycache', 'nofollow')#</xar:set>
<xar:else />
    <xar:set name="$nofollow">'0'</xar:set>
</xar:if>
<xar:if condition="$nofollow">
   <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
</xar:if>

haven't tried it, but it should work.