I need to start working on a tours WordPress website and I got asked that if the user is local then it opens a page with some content for outgoing packages. However, if the user was from America for example, it opens Incoming and pilgrim packages. They also asked me to have 3 different languages for the website and depending on where the user is from, it opens the website with the visitor language accordingly and it also have the option to change language.
I was thinking the best way is to make 3 different WordPress websites with 2 sub domain and the domain is for a default language. However, it can have the same database so I don't have to re-insert the content.
Did I think right or is there another way that might save time and effort?
Thanks for help in advance :)
First off, I'm a beginning programmer.
In the past we have used "WordPress" for all of our web displays but have moved to a program called "Netsuite" because of business reasons.
We have implemented Google maps before with our "WordPress" website with no issues but for some reason we just aren't getting it to work right within "Netsuite".
WordPress was a lot easier to manage and design for a beginner but "Netsuite" has shown to be a total different beast.
We want it to where someone can put in a zip code and Google maps returns all available stores in the radius selected by the customer. At the moment it does not do anything.
Here's the code that has been used in the "Item/Category" portion of Netsuite = https://system.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=68100&c=474317&h=6cc7936ec76825098acc&mv=ht7pyjtk&_xt=.txt&whence=
Please any help is grateful.
You can do the call inside NetSuite using a Suitelet - this can be called from the UI. Use nlapiRequestURL to get the JSON data and process it as you do on your file there.
Also, it's not best practice to disclose your company number c=xxxxxxx on the URL.
im a newbie to php/javascript/jquery,etc. How do I implement cookies into a multilingual/multiregional (wordpress.org) website layed out with architecture like explained below?
http://domain.com/ takes users to a page that asks for which country they are in, they have the option of four different countries, Canada, UK, Australia and US. Then if for example, they select Canada, they are taken to http://ca.domain.com/ and it asks for language, English, French, Spanish and below that is a dropdown for other languages. If they click english, they will be taken to the final result of a wordpress blog at http://ca.domain.com/en/
How may I set cookies so that next time they visit http://domain.com/ or even jump to http://ca.domain.com/ that it would immediately send them the the wordpress blog that they saw last time, also would these cookies (not the same one set on their desktop) be able to work if a user is a mobile client? Can I also make a link back to the language and region selection process?
Thanks in advance!
By the Way, I am using WP Multisite for the countries and maybe set up some sort of php translation at the end of the subdomain multisite urls
Extension to question: Remember language selection - then redirect to home page in subsequent visits
I am creating a classifieds website.
Im storing all ads in mysql database, in different tables.
Is it possible to find these ads somehow, from googles search engine?
Is it possible to create meta information about each ad so that google finds them?
How does major companies do this?
I have thought about auto-generating a html-page for each ad inserted, but 500thousand auto-generated html pages doesn't really sound that good of a solution!
Any thoughts and idéas?
UPDATE:
Here is my basic website so far:
(ALL PHP BASED)
I have a search engine which searches database for records.
After finding and displaying search results, you can click on a result ('ad') and then PHP fetches info from the database and displays it, simple!
In the 'put ad' section of my site, you can put your own ad into a mysql database.
I need to know how I should make google find ads in my website also, as I dont think google-crawler can search my database just because users can.
Please explain your answers more thoroughly so that I understand fully how this works!
Thank you
Google doesn't find database records. Google finds web pages. If you want your classifieds to be found then they'll need to be on a Web page of some kind. You can help this process by giving Google a site map/index of all your classifieds.
I suggest you take a look at Google Basics and Creating and submitting SitemapsPrint
. Basically the idea is to spoon feed Google every URL you want Google to find. So if your reference your classifieds this way:
http://www.mysite.com/classified?id=1234
then you create a list of every URL required to find every classified and yes this might be hundreds of thousands or even millions.
The above assumes a single classified per page. You can of course put 5, 10, 50 or 100 on a single page and then create a smaller set of URLs for Google to crawl.
Whatever you do however remember this: your sitemap should reflect how your site is used. Every URL Google finds (or you give it) will appear in the index. So don't give Google a URL that a user couldn't reach by using the site normally or that you don't want a user to use.
So while 50 classifieds per page might mean less requests from Google, if that's not how you want users to use your site (or a view you want to provide) then you'll have to do it some other way.
Just remember: Google indexes Web pages not data.
How would you normally access these classifieds? You're not just keeping them locked up in the database, are you?
Google sees your website like any other visitor would see your website. If you have a normal database-driven site, there's some unique URL for each classified where it it displayed. If there's a link to it somewhere, Google will find it.
If you want Google to index your site, you need to put all your pages on the web and link between them.
You do not have to auto-generate a static HTML page for everything, all pages can be dynamically created (JSP, ASP, PHP, what have you), but they need to be accessible for a web crawler.
Google can find you no matter where you try to hide. Even if you can somehow fit yourself into a mysql table. Because they're Google. :-D
Seriously, though, they use a bot to periodically spider your site so you mostly just need to make the data in your database available as web pages on your site, and make your site bot-friendly (use an appropriate robots.txt file, provide a search engine-friendly site map, etc.) You need to make sure they can find your site, so make sure it's linked to by other sites -- preferably sites with lots of traffic.
If your site only displays specific results in response to search terms you'll have a harder time. You may want to make full lists of the records available for people without search terms (paged appropriately if you have lots of data).
First Create a PHP file that pulls the index plus human readable reference for all records.
That is your main page broken out into categories (like in the case of Craigslist.com - by Country and State).
Then each category link feeds back to the php script the selected value regardless of level(s) finally reaching the ad itself.
So, If a category is selected which contains more categories (like states contain cities) Then display the next list of categories. Else display the list of ads for that city.
This will give Google.com a way to index a site (aka mysql db) dynamically with out creating static content for the millions (billions or trillions) of records involved.
This is Just an idea of how to get Google.com to index a database.
I'm working now on google maps, I'm trying to build something not even half as extensive but something on the lines of http://wikimapia.org/. Ok I'm not going to be building the whole app haven't got that much time on my hands. However the application I'm working on has users signing up and they would be able to pin point and create locations on a google map which would be stored in my back-end database.
Plus there would be a search option whereby a user could search for a specific place and all list of matching entries would be displayed as an 'overlay' to the map and all places would be highlighted on the map.
Also if you've noticed how wikimapia works - you can add a place by virtually clicking and dragging on the map itself as opposed to adding in coordinates on some complicated form and the search is embedded within the map and not outside.
Now I have an idea of integrating basic google maps - no biggie there but this is not just a simple integration procedure. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do here.
I'm working on Php and using JQuery for javascripting.
Thanks for the response - however my query was different in this respect that my application is such that we would have users signing up and they would come and pint point and create new locations on the map so basically its not one user - all the coordinates would be entered by the users in a 'click your place on the map' kind of way and we would like to be able to overlay all those details upon the map as well as categorise like lets say - show all places on the map where theres a birthday party, or show all internet cafes on the map - i.e. all these details are entered by users.
Maybe I'm missing something here - but I'm looking to make a simplified watered down version of wikimapia here.
If you want to integrate with Google Maps, I think the best place to get started is the source: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/, specifically the documentation and API reference. Get yourself a key, drop one of the examples into your page and start tweaking.
For your points, you'll basically store coordinate information (lat/long), plus whatever information you want to display. You can even have custom map tiles (the pictures of the world), or custom map overlay tiles (transparent additions to the displayed world). It really is a quite flexible API for mapping things.
When you run into a specific issue, ask.