ceon_uri_mapping

Module Overview

Use Static URIs to make web addresses Easier to Remember and Easier to Enter.
Improve the store's Rankings in Search Engines!

“Ceon URI Mapping is absolutely fantastic and beats any other Zen Cart SEO module by a country mile.

“I have found Ceon ZC modules to be among the best ZC mods out there!”

Ewan Duthie,
Web Integrations Ltd.

The Ceon URI Mapping module is a very handy module that no Zen Cart site should be without!

Unlike other SEO modules, where the URIs are generated automatically when a customer visits a page, this module allows specific URIs to be entered within the admin, or even for auto-generation to be used to create a static URI for an individual category/product/manufacturer/EZ-Page/Zen Cart page.

We believe this to be a much better solution as the store is in control of its URIs.

It lets the store specify static, human-readable, keyword-based URIs to be used instead of the dynamic, ID-based URIs which Zen Cart uses as standard.

For example, for a product, instead of dynamic URIs like this:

http://yourstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=5

A static address - easy to read, easy to type in and full of keywords - could be specified for the product:

http://yourstore.com/books/life-is-good

It's simple to promote sections of the site on advertising literature.

For example, the following static URI could be mapped to the specials page:

http://yourstore.com/EasterSpecials

Ceon URI Mapping is packed full of features, which include:

Give potential customers easy to enter/remember URIs and improve the site's rankings in search engines - check out the full feature list!

Please Note: This module does not automatically add mappings for existing Categories/Products/Manufacturers/EZ-Pages - if the site has existing Categories/Products/Manufacturers/EZ-Pages, they'll continue to use the standard Zen Cart dynamic URIs, until a URI has been entered or auto-generated for them, by editing the respective Category/Product/Manufacturer/EZ-Page in the admin.

This means going in and editing every Category/Product/Manufacturer/EZ-Page for which a static URI mapping is desired. Ceon's URI Mappings Manager software is being developed, and will be able to generate URIs for entire categories etc. at once.

The version you have here is a completely new module, based in part on a module written for a client of JKED, a leading e-commerce firm - see what JKED can offer you!.

Essential Info

Here's the essential information about this release.

Title Information
Module Name: ceon_uri_mapping
Zen Cart Versions: 1.3.0 - 1.3.9c (1.2.x can be supported if someone is willing to pay for the time for us to create the sample versions of the modified core files). Will be upgraded for 2.0.0 when it is released.
PHP Versions: 4 - 5.3
Website (inc. Downloads): The latest version of and information about this software can always be found at http://dev.ceon.net/web/zen-cart/uri_mapping
License: This software is provided free of charge and released under the GPL but donations are happily accepted! License file is included in the release.
The documentation is © Copyright Ceon, please check the FAQs for information about distributing it to clients.
Warranty: The software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Donations:

Donate by Credit/Debit Card or PayPal. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Solo, Maestro, American Express, Visa Debit & Visa Electron!This module has taken over 7 weeks of work, with none of the time taken being paid for by anyone, so if you find it useful, please support us - just click the donate button.

We'll have more time to keep this contribution up-to-date and to support those who need our help if some nice people donate.

Only 1 in 500 people donate towards our software, so it would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!

Support:

Free support is available through the contribution's forum on the Zen Cart website. Free support from Ceon is also included with a purchase of Ceon's URI Mappings Manager software.

You can also contact Ceon for direct, personal support. We have a minimum charge of £15 or a “Small Job Support Charge” of £23 - no-one ever has ever had to pay more than that for us to fix any problems they've had.

Of course, with our support charge, a full tax invoice for your business records is supplied, to write the charge off against tax as a business expense.

Your question may already have been anticipated, so please check the FAQs first!

Author:

Conor Kerr, Ceon

The module also contains libraries based on libraries from The Horde Project, Drupal, Media Wiki and CPAN. Respective credits are in the relevant source files.

Copyright: © Copyright Ceon 2008-2010

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