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I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has subdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So, for my site, I decided to write a PHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricingpricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-typeshttp://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.

To counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that `thethe word typestypes is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has subdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So, for my site, I decided to write a PHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.

To counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that `the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has subdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So, for my site, I decided to write a PHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.

To counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

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PHP Scriptscript to generate hreflang tags

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has sub directoriessubdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So, for my site, I decided to write a phpPHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page.

This is my script:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.

So toTo counteract this I added another if statement statement which checks to ensure that `the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

PHP Script to generate hreflang tags

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has sub directories for the appropriate regions. For example a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So for my site I decided to write a php script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page.

This is my script:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types

So to counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that `the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

PHP script to generate hreflang tags

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has subdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So, for my site, I decided to write a PHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.

To counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that `the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?

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PHP Script to generate hreflang tags

I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has sub directories for the appropriate regions. For example a pricing page would look something like this:

In order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.

So for my site I decided to write a php script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page.

This is my script:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url, "pricing") == true): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

However the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types

So to counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that `the word types is not present in the URL:

<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
<?php if(strpos($url,"pricing") == true && strpos($url, "types") == false): ?>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/" hreflang="en-ie" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/" hreflang="en-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/" hreflang="x-default" />
<?php endif; ?>

Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?