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Zen Cart New Product Type Using Ultimate SEO URL Package

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]