BlueYon

Hi, I have this working fine with Google site maps. Yes there is a fix. I have found oscommerce does not work very well with search engines. A lot of the search engines are now giving a duplicate content penalty in the rankings. This means over time as you get a product, category or review not found when removing products you are no longer selling you can get hit with a penalty. Also with having the sort by product name or price this also causes the duplicate content penalty. The same can be said for my contribution. When a URL can not be found it gets redirected to the front page. The best method would be to go though the list of cached URL's before anything else loads and give a header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); if the URL?s can not be found. You can use this tool to find out what headers your site is showing: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html

This contribution is not for everyone.

I could change it so that you have: http://www.yoursite.com/c1_9/Hardware/Mice...telliMouse-Pro/ Really if you have a name for one product you should not use it again. Like a ISBN number for a book. It's osCommerce thats not feasable because it use's multiple languages. What would you surgest? How about an admin section where you can add your own keywords for each product and category?

Have you got mod rewrite enabled?

Just noticed you are using index2.php. Did you includ this file name in the page function?

You havernt set the contribution up properly. I can't remember exactly what causes this, i just know its a problem with installing.

Still no internet! Should be working some time Tuesday!

I have not got time at the moment to help people out on this contribution! I have arrived back in the UK, but currently on dial up. I will have broadband installed August 4th (Thursday) so hopefully I will be back in help out people with problems again.

Replaces it!

For those of you who have a problem with header tag controller I have just released this: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3357 Support thread can be found here: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=160950 Still needs testing though!

About to uploading my meta tag controller. This contribution does the same sort of thing as header tag controller, but I feel the way I have done it is better more optimized method. I have always used it on my site www.itchi-tech.co.uk, so I'm now releaing it because of all the requests for having getting header tag controller to work with my search engine friendly contribution. Download here.

You would need to add in in the header tag contribution where it defines the headers for index.php Somthing like: if (isset(products_id)) { your product_info.php header tags } else { your index.php header tags }

Ok I see the problem now! I will fix later.

The information pages is a tricky one! You would need to set it to change information.php to /Information/ and then what ever the name of the page. You wopuld then need to change .htaccess for any requests for /infromation/ to be redirected to information.php. That is your main problem first. Also I thought you fixed the manufacturers box problem? If you deleted the manufacturers cache file then it should work. PM me your FTP details if you still can't fix the manufacturers box problem. I will look at it tomorrow. I need to goto bed now. Speak later!

Sorry I still don't get you. OSC does not have a information.php page. Is this the unlimited information pages contribution? If so you would have to set them ? ? case 'info_id': $i++; Also please remeber this contribution only works using index.php.

where did the ?info_id=3 come from?

You mean if you wanted more than one manufacturers with the same name? It would be somthing like: transform_url case 'manufacturers_id': $i++; $manufacturer_query = tep_db_query("select distinct manufacturers_name from " . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " where manufacturers_id = '" . $url_array[$i] . "'"); $manufacturer_name = tep_db_fetch_array($manufacturer_query); $url_parts['path'] .= '/' . $this->prepare_url($manufacturer_name['manufacturers_name']) . '/' . $url_array[$i]; break; I can't think at the moment how to read the manufacturers_id until the script has already found the manufacturers name and identified it is an manufacturers_id.

Thanks! It's hard with this contribtuion, because its doing somthing oscommerce was not designed for. There are certain requirments to get this to work, which I should have included in the instructions. Need Linux, latest PHP, apache and mod rewrite enabled. Also can not have the same name for any of the categories, products or manufacturers.

Try deleting your manufacturers cache Also check my test site again.

Done! You can download in the contribution section.

Try messing about with your includes/configuration.php Might be setup wrong in there!

Hi, Sorry at the monet I'm getting ready to move back to the UK. I will help as much as I can, but time is a bit tight at the moment. Which issue are you talking about?

I think you over wrote the worng files. Soposed to be for catelog not admin!

Ok I will look at it tomorrow. I sohould be able to fix it. Currently I just started my classified advertisment contribution. See it here: http://www.itchi-tech.co.uk/classifieds.php