I am trying to get more control over the header of my Joomla site; for some pages I don't need many things in the header. I decided to make a template where I don't use the <jdoc:include type="head" />, because it loads lot of things that I don't need.
Searching, I found this old post about the subject, and in the web some people looking for the same thing. Manually control <head> markup in Joomla
I was wondering if it is possible to add to my index.php template file to PHP code that could get just the "metadescription" and the "title" of the Joomla publication. Something like this:
<?php defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die; ?>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>">
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width />
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo **code metadescription** ?>" />
<title><?php echo **code to get title** ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<jdoc:include type="component" />
</body>
</html> Nice, after while i could find the code that i was looking for, and maybe it could help others, it worked for me... in the index.php file of the template i added:
<?php defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die;
$doc =JFactory::getDocument();
$meta_description = $doc->getMetaData("description");
$title = $doc->getTitle();
?>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo "$meta_description"; ?>" />
<title><?php echo "$title" ?></title>
</head>
<body> <jdoc:include type="component" /> </body>
</html>