How to translate the description metatag for a view

Question

I have a multilingual site based on drupal 7 with Internationalization i18n and Metatags modules. I made a multilingual view and it works fine, I could translate all entities except the view-description (and of course the metatag description). I would like to have for each language a different meta tag description of the view.

As I can read in this issue, it seems there is still no solution.

Is there any workaround? Thank you for replying.

Answer 1

You could add something in the html.tpl.php along these lines:

  <?php
  if((function_exists('views_get_page_view') && views_get_page_view()) && ($language->language == 'fr')){ ?>
      ...Your metatag here...
  <?php  
  }elseif((function_exists('views_get_page_view') && views_get_page_view()) && ($language->language == 'de')){ ?>
      ...Your metatag here...  
  <?php } ?>

views_get_page_view() finds out what, if any, page view is currently in use. If it returns NULL, then the current page is not a views' page.

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This line of code may come in handy as well, to figure out which view:

$view = views_get_page_view();

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Is this enough to help you on the way?