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snJmetadesc - meta description generator Perl tool 
Version
1.4 (last update on Jan 14, 2009)
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License
GPL
Non-Commercial
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Date Added
20 August 2008
snJmetadesc connects to Joomla! 1.5 database and goes through all articles. It extracts the beginning of each article content, removes any markup and adds the resulting string as the meta description tag of that article if none exists previously or if the original meta description is also autogenerated by this script.
Most Joomla! developers would call this a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool, but this is really just an automatic meta description generator.
It is intended to be run manually (from shell prompt) after updating any articles or periodically from cron(8). It is also an example on how Joomla! configuration parameters and database can be accessed and manipulated from a Perl script.
Versions 1.1 and 1.2 of snJmetadesc include only documentation improvements. The code remains the same.
Version 1.3 uses the new CMS::Joomla Perl module for configuration and database access.
Version 1.4 changes the license to GPLv3 to comply with new JED rules.
Note: You need shell access to use this tool.
