Is this package abandoned?

[skyparksecure]

Hi,

We are your client we do use PHP package, but looks like this one has been abandoned.

Please advise.

[lpil]

Hey @skyparksecure ! The reevoomark API has not changed so this library continues to work as intended.

The lack of updates is due to stability more than anything else :)

[skyparksecure]

Hi @lpil, thanks for quick answer.

Your API might me be stable, but PHP has moved on since version 4 (that has been abandoned in 2008), so it might be worth updating this library at least on that level (constructors are still from PHP4, no support for namespaces etc.)

Also there's few issues with your API, but your Support team is very unsupportive:(

[lpil]

I'm not a Reevoo person anymore so I'm afraid I can't help. I suspect a PR would be merged, perhaps @jelamo or @davidsevcik can confirm?

[robinbortlik]

Hi @skyparksecure ,
to be honest with you, from what I know, our aim is to deprecate this kind of libraries and support only JS library. Is there any particular reason you can't or don't want to switch from PHP client to JS solution?

[skyparksecure]

@robinbortlik is your JS library OK with SEO? If it is - then we can use it.

[reneklacan]

@skyparksecure https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/rendering

[robinbortlik]

@skyparksecure to be totally honest, we can't guarantee that. It depends on how fast your page load. And when the javascript is executed.
I think nobody really know how long google bot waits to get data from page. We know that there are a clients where everything works without any issue, but on other side, there are clients which have an issue, because js is executed too late.

[robinbortlik]

@skyparksecure but starting with JS solution can be quite easy. Just include JS library to the page and use the component. And you can A/B test it, by displaying JS solution only on some specific pages.
http://reevoo.github.io/docs/reevoomark/javascript-library/

[skyparksecure]

@robinbortlik we are aware of yours JS solution, but we also weren't sure about impact on SEO.
We do know that Google crawls (using outdated version of Chrome, btw) pages that render content using Javascript.

One of the reasons that we went with Reevoo was that it would also help our SEO. And for long time PHP library worked OK, just recently we've ran in to these issues.

[robinbortlik]

@skyparksecure I have opened the question of updating the library, but it looks like it is not a top priority story at this moment. Can you please give us more info about what is the biggest pain and how much affect you?
Also, guys, it is open source library, we will be very happy for any kind of PR. :)

[reneklacan]

@skyparksecure Google Webmasters/Search Console gives you a "Fetch as Google" tool to check how Google Crawlers sees your page so you can double check if switching to JS solution from PHP makes any difference.

[gtempesta-pixartprinting]

@robinbortlik I have opened a PR with an update to all the old style constructors. In our use case this is enough to fix all the errors.

[gtempesta-pixartprinting]

Ok the PR is now merged so for anyone needing an update on constructors, they are all updated.

One note about SEO: in our case the product reviews are indexed only with the PHP version (we tried to use the JavaScript version for some pages but they didn't get indexed on Google).

I think Google is constantly updating the technology to crawl the JavaScript side of pages, but for now I think that for some websites the back-end versions of the widgets are still needed.

[skyparksecure]

Great stuff.

I do agree - Javascript version is not being indexed properly, even after Google's update to their latest browser version.