SEF URLs - The Manual Way

I've had this issue before with other websites whereby the Page Title, Keywords or Description were not populated by JoomSEF (my SEF URL Manager of choice) and I worked round it by injecting PHP into the headers to pull data from the database.

This isn't a specific work around for Hike, it'll work with any component providing:

• You have FTP access to the template's index.php file
• You can write URL conditional PHP (if requested URI = ***)
• Your database actually has META data for each item

As I mentioned, this is a general workaround that will work with any component, not just Hika.

I set up a car auction website using Joomla and hand coded the auctions facility as there wasn't a component that would do what I wanted. However, I needed to have customised META data and this worked a treat.

I used it also with Red Shop as they insisted I used SH404SEF which I simply wan't prepared to pay for as their component should have done the job.

For me, Hika does a pretty good job. However, if you're willing and able you can actually force your own customised META data to show.

Just a thought...

I'm so sorry Nicolas. I hasn't loaded META data individually and forgot, then later when there was no meta data, just the standard. I assumed Hika didn't manage this so I apologise.