I'm trying to update a client's static pages which have item descriptions in the 'description' meta tag content. I want to print the descriptions under the image on the existing page, which I am converting to php.

 I've checked out some of the get_meta_tag functions but am finding that they seem to require searching another page via a path. I'm trying to get the data on this current page. I'm wondering if the command structure will allow this and if there is an example that someone could point me to. It seems that since the info is given by the server as the page is created, any php function would kick in too late to display?

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Without extracting the meta data and putting it in a database and then dynamically including it where ever you want, one possible hack is to access the DOM at the server level. PHP provides an extension for doing this, http://www.php.net/dom.

In order to use this extension on the current page as opposed to opening and accessing another separate page, the only way that I can think to do it is to use output control functions, or ensure that nothing is output and the whole page ends up stored in the same variable. The latter would be more efficient, I think, from a resource usage point of view. With the former you allow the page to be written to the output buffer, then capture the page using output control functions, modify what you need to and then output it. http://www.php.net/outcontrol.

Using this method you could, theoretically at least, access and modify the document similar to JavaScript on the client-side.

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Thanks. I guess I found it easier to do in javascript which will require less modification and programming to modify the few pages I need to.
Jeff

 function seeAll()
 {
 var metaContent = "";
 var allMetas = document.getElementsByTagName("meta");

 for(var i = 0; i < allMetas.length; i++)
 {
 if(allMetas[i].name == "description")
 {
 metaContent = allMetas[i].content;
 break;
 }
 }
 return metaContent;
 }



function MM_callJS(jsStr) { //v2.0
  return eval(jsStr)
}
 document.write(seeAll());

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