So I didn't get an error message this time so I assume it worked, but since I don't really know what I'm doing I 'm not sure if what I did was what was required of me. Here were my directions:
Database Changes
Run the seo_g.sql file that came with this archive using phpmyadmin. This will create the necessary tables and configuration options. There is a good turorial how to use phpmyadmin here. The osC Admin configuration options are stored with configuration ID of 24. If this identifier is already in use you need to change the SQL file and the catalog\admin\seo_zones_config.php near the beginning $gID = .... You can identify if this ID is already in use by executing the following query in phpmyadmin
SELECT count(*) as total FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id=24
Then check the total returned, if it's 0 it is not allocated and you can install the default .sql file, otherwise you need to modify it as explained above.
So for someone like me I don't know if I did this correctly, so I moved along. The install readme is located at C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp1_SEO Contribution for Oscommerce.zip\SEO-G\readme.htm
I did get down to step 8 until I had the a problem with me website loading, more errors occured in steps 9-11 so I stopped and backed up.
On step eight I followed these directions:
8. catalog\includes\functions\html_output.php
a) Locate the following code
global $request_type, $session_started, $SID;
Change it to:
//-MS- SEO-G Added
global $request_type, $session_started, $SID, $g_seo_url;
//-MS- SEO-G Added EOM
B) Locate the following:
if ( (SEARCH_ENGINE_FRIENDLY_URLS == 'true') && ($search_engine_safe == true) ) {
Right above it add:
//-MS- SEO-G Added
if( $connection == 'NONSSL' || SEO_PROCESS_SSL == 'true' )
$link = $g_seo_url->get_seo_url($link, $separator);
//-MS- SEO-G Added EOM
This produced the following error when loading my page. Maybe this is ok since the instructions are not finished, but Since I started to run into more and more errors as I continued I though I would get some opinion on this.
error: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/catalog/includes/functions/html_output.php on line 58
Is this ok, then I will proceed to the next error messages from step 10.