ukaiautomation/includes.bak.20260210/canonical.php

<?php
/**
 * Canonical URL Helper
 * Generates consistent canonical URLs for the site
 *
 * Usage:
 * include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/canonical.php');
 * $canonical = getCanonicalUrl();
 */

/**
 * Get the canonical URL for the current page
 * Handles www/non-www, http/https, trailing slashes, and query strings
 *
 * @param string|null $overrideUrl Optional URL to override auto-detection
 * @return string The canonical URL
 */
function getCanonicalUrl($overrideUrl = null) {
    $baseUrl = 'https://ukdataservices.co.uk';

    // If override provided, clean and return it
    if ($overrideUrl) {
        return cleanCanonicalUrl($baseUrl, $overrideUrl);
    }

    // Auto-detect current URL
    $requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?? '/';

    // Remove query string
    $path = parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_PATH);

    // Remove .php extension for clean URLs
    if (substr($path, -4) === '.php') {
        $path = substr($path, 0, -4);
    }

    // Normalize trailing slashes (remove except for root)
    if ($path !== '/' && substr($path, -1) === '/') {
        $path = rtrim($path, '/');
    }

    return $baseUrl . $path;
}

/**
 * Clean and normalize a canonical URL
 *
 * @param string $baseUrl The site base URL
 * @param string $url The URL to clean
 * @return string Cleaned canonical URL
 */
function cleanCanonicalUrl($baseUrl, $url) {
    // If it's a relative URL, make it absolute
    if (strpos($url, 'http') !== 0) {
        $url = $baseUrl . '/' . ltrim($url, '/');
    }

    // Remove query string
    $url = strtok($url, '?');

    // Remove .php extension
    if (substr($url, -4) === '.php') {
        $url = substr($url, 0, -4);
    }

    // Normalize trailing slashes
    $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
    if ($path && $path !== '/' && substr($path, -1) === '/') {
        $url = rtrim($url, '/');
    }

    // Ensure https and non-www
    $url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url);
    $url = str_replace('://www.', '://', $url);

    return $url;
}

/**
 * Generate the canonical link tag
 *
 * @param string|null $url Optional URL override
 * @return string HTML link tag
 */
function generateCanonicalTag($url = null) {
    $canonical = getCanonicalUrl($url);
    return '<link rel="canonical" href="' . htmlspecialchars($canonical) . '">';
}

/**
 * Get URL for a specific page by key
 *
 * @param string $pageKey The page identifier
 * @return string The full canonical URL
 */
function getPageUrl($pageKey) {
    $baseUrl = 'https://ukdataservices.co.uk';

    $urls = [
        'home' => '',
        'about' => '/about',
        'quote' => '/quote',
        'faq' => '/faq',
        'blog' => '/blog',
        'contact' => '/#contact',
        'privacy' => '/privacy-policy',
        'terms' => '/terms-of-service',
        'cookies' => '/cookie-policy',
        'gdpr' => '/gdpr-compliance',
        'project-types' => '/project-types',
        'case-studies' => '/case-studies',

        // Services
        'services' => '/#services',
        'web-scraping' => '/services/web-scraping',
        'competitive-intelligence' => '/services/competitive-intelligence',
        'price-monitoring' => '/services/price-monitoring',
        'data-cleaning' => '/services/data-cleaning',
        'data-analytics' => '/services/data-analytics',
        'api-development' => '/services/api-development',
        'property-data' => '/services/property-data-extraction',
        'financial-data' => '/services/financial-data-services',

        // Locations
        'london' => '/locations/london',
        'manchester' => '/locations/manchester',
        'birmingham' => '/locations/birmingham',
        'edinburgh' => '/locations/edinburgh',
        'cardiff' => '/locations/cardiff'
    ];

    $path = $urls[$pageKey] ?? '';
    return $baseUrl . $path;
}

/**
 * Check if current page is the canonical version
 *
 * @return bool True if current URL is canonical
 */
function isCanonicalUrl() {
    $currentUrl = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http")
                  . "://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $canonical = getCanonicalUrl();

    return cleanCanonicalUrl('https://ukdataservices.co.uk', $currentUrl) === $canonical;
}

/**
 * Output redirect to canonical URL if needed
 * Call this at the very beginning of pages before any output
 */
function enforceCanonicalUrl() {
    if (!isCanonicalUrl()) {
        $canonical = getCanonicalUrl();
        header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
        header('Location: ' . $canonical);
        exit;
    }
}