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This post is to help those who are using Zen Cart and are using new product types with Ultimate SEO URL package installed. There are a couple of things to change in order to make everything work together as it took me a couple of hours to figure out. I hope this will help others save these couple of hours of hair pulling.

Prerequisite:

Zen Cart installed
New product type added
Ultimate SEO URL package installed
Goal:

Have the URLs for the products using the new product type show URLs in this format.

http://www.domain.com/[product name]-p-[product id].html

Changes Required:

NOTE: [handler_name] is the new product type name added.

1. File - seo.url.php
   Original:
   $seo_pages = array(
   FILENAME_DEFAULT,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO,
   FILENAME_POPUP_IMAGE,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS_INFO,
   );Result:
   $seo_pages = array(
   FILENAME_DEFAULT,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO,
   FILENAME_POPUP_IMAGE,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS,
   FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS_INFO,
   FILENAME_[handler name]_INFO
   );
2. File - seo.url.php
   Original:
   $this->reg_anchors = array(
   ‘products_id’ => ‘-p-’,
   ‘cPath’ => ‘-c-’,
   ‘manufacturers_id’ => ‘-m-’,
   ‘pID’ => ‘-pi-’,
   ‘products_id_review’ => ‘-pr-’,
   ‘products_id_review_info’ => ‘-pri-’,Result:
   $this->reg_anchors = array(
   ‘products_id’ => ‘-p-’,
   ‘cPath’ => ‘-c-’,
   ‘manufacturers_id’ => ‘-m-’,
   ‘pID’ => ‘-pi-’,
   ‘products_id_review’ => ‘-pr-’,
   ‘products_id_review_info’ => ‘-pri-’,
   ‘[handler name]_id’ => ‘-pji-’,
   
3. File - seo.url.php -> function parse_parameters
   Find “case ‘products_id’:”
   Within this case statement, add the following.case ($page == FILENAME_[handler name]_INFO):
   $url = $this->make_url($page, $this->get_product_name($p2[1]), ‘[handler_name]_id’, $p2[1], ‘.html’, $separator);
   break;
4. File - [webroot]/includes/filenames.php
   Add the following definition.define(’FILENAME_[handler name]_INFO’, ‘[handler name]_info’);
5. File - [webroot]/.htaccess
   Add the following rewrite rule.RewriteRule ^(.*)-pji-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=[ handler_name]_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Tags: Coding, E-commerce, Open Source by frank
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