A/b testing, setting content globally

The CMS Questions
1

Hello everyone,

Last November we started a project with multiple domains and languages.
Currently we’re upgrading from Kirby 2.0 to 3.1.1, and also releasing new functions on our project.

What we’ve done so far:

Now we run into some problems we hope to solve.

Generally we can say that we run multiple A/B tests over the whole site.
We specificed each usergroup so far as a own language, were “de” is set as the default.
The logic how we set A or B is no problem, but getting the right content without a redirect.
In general we have example.com/de/home, but decided sometimes to show version B of it under the same url.

Behind it looks like we render: example.com/de2/home, but the URL should stay the same.

Is it possible in the template (or in a plugin) to set something like this:
$kirby->setContent(‘de2’);

Thanks for your help,
frank

2

Routes to the rescue.

Inside your route, conditionally set $site->visit($page, $lang) to the desired language and return the page.

3

Routes could help indeed, but I’m wondering what the SEO impact will be of rendering different pages on the same URL’s? :thinking:

4

SEO shouldn’t have a big impact, Google for example can handle JavaScript and A/B tests.

page.de.txt
Text: content de

page.de2.txt
Text: content de __ 2

Plugin:

Kirby::plugin('testing/ab', [
    'routes' => [
        [
            'pattern' => '/de/(:all)',
            'action'  => function() {
                return site()->visit(page(), 'de2');
            }
        ]
    ]
]);

Template:

<?= $page->text()->kt(); ?>

Output:

content de

Am I missing something?

Sorry,
frank

5

Something like this, of course with an if statement that checks your A/B-test condition and some if statement that check if the page exists:

Kirby::plugin('testing/ab', [
    'routes' => [
        [
            'pattern' => '/de/(:all)',
            'action'  => function($uri) {
                  $page = page($uri);
                  site()->visit($page, 'de2');
                  return $page;      
            }
        ]
    ]
]);

Don’t know if the above pattern works for the home page, you might have to make the all placeholder optional.

7

Hello,

The code above is working perfectly. Run into an issue where my controller always redirect on itself on a missing language.

Is there another possibility to only affect the content elements?
And not the header/footer snippets?

Thanks,
frank

8

What do you mean with missing language?

9

controller/site.php

if (!in_array($kirby->language()->code(), $kirby->option('languages'))) {
    $go = $page->url($kirby->option('language'));
    go($go);
}

Was part of the legacy code.

10

Well, yes, you could also use some logic in the template/controller and then display either then content from de or de2, depending. on group.

$page->content('language_code')->somefield()

should do the job.