Merchnat Ratings & meta tags

[busby1]

2 things i would like to see in V2

1) The ability to include custome meta tags for catagories and products.

title meta tag is fine as it is

Products i have acheived to a point, i have included the product decsiption as a meta tag description in the products.tpl, the problem with this is some of the discription are extreamly long, getting the merchant to included a short description when rgistering the product would be ideal,

Keywords, this i have included the product name, good if someone is looking for that specific item, and only works on product level

catagories, a category discription and keword list word be great.


2) Merchant ratings would be very good to include, an agregate score aquired from the users across all affiliates would give a fair rating to each merchant, it is not alway easy to get a satisfied customer to give feedback, unsatisfied customers cant wait, this could give a skewed result.

2 possible ways around this would be, start all merchants on the highest rating and adust acording to feedback, or assume that users vote with their money and rank on sales volume, as an average taken form the number of products the merchants offers to the number they have sold (the later would be the easiest to impliment as it doesnt rely on the users input, and as you have the data already would show the correct rating from the start)

[Andy]

Products i have acheived to a point, i have included the product decsiption as a meta tag description in the products.tpl, the problem with this is some of the discription are extreamly long, getting the merchant to included a short description when rgistering the product would be ideal,you could use the strlen() function:

if(strlen($description) > 100) {
$description = substr($description,0,100);
$description .= "...";
}

can't remember what the ACTUAL variable for the description is, but you get the general idea