Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

My answer to the concerns people are raising such as this:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....97#post1355697

This plugin is in the public domain and so there is no "owner" nor is anyone responsible for it.
It would seem logical that the CEON family would look after it, to promote the (previously commercial) URI Mappings Manager add-on, but I am not privy to the backstory there.

I made the changes necessary for php7 and ZC155f for my own use and put it on Github for others to use and also to keep the memory going.
Webchills did his own update and uploaded it to the plugins.
I think there is also an update done by the german forum.

I will be reviewing all options when I upgrade to 1.56, which will not be anytime soon, judging by the constant bug reports.

So in the meantime, it's open source, so you can do what you want, or wait and hope that maybe one of the usual altruistic suspects will update it, or pay someone. We are spoilt for choice.

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Originally Posted by torvista

My answer to the concerns people are raising such as this:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....97#post1355697

This plugin is in the public domain and so there is no "owner" nor is anyone responsible for it.
It would seem logical that the CEON family would look after it, to promote the (previously commercial) URI Mappings Manager add-on, but I am not privy to the backstory there.

I made the changes necessary for php7 and ZC155f for my own use and put it on Github for others to use and also to keep the memory going.
Webchills did his own update and uploaded it to the plugins.
I think there is also an update done by the german forum.

I will be reviewing all options when I upgrade to 1.56, which will not be anytime soon, judging by the constant bug reports.

So in the meantime, it's open source, so you can do what you want, or wait and hope that maybe one of the usual altruistic suspects will update it, or pay someone. We are spoilt for choice.

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I'm not moaning. I was trying to get the official status on a future update for a matter of respect.
Anyway, I've forked your repository, because that's the one I'm using, and started working on this update.
Categories are now working. Next week , I'll focus on products.

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I'm not moaning.

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I never meant to imply that.
Your concern about what for many is an integral part of their shop is perfectly understandable.
I just wanted to remind everyone else of the status of this particular plugin and more than other all user-contrubuted code, it really is up to the community to take it forward.
I would be surprised if it proves very difficult to get working with php7.3/ZC156, such is the quality of the original code....I hope you prove me right.

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Originally Posted by torvista

I would be surprised if it proves very difficult to get working with php7.3/ZC156, such is the quality of the original code....I hope you prove me right.

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Yep, it's bulletproof, it's almost done ( or I think it is), except the admin configuration check for 156. I think tomorrow is done.

Please help! I found out if I turn on the "Ceon URI Mapping ", the "<link rel="canonical" part shows up in the html source code.
I understand this is normal and it suppose to work in this way.

but if I turn off the "Ceon URI Mapping ", then the canonical tag is gone, can anyone guide me how to fix it:

I need to turn off the CEON URI mapping while keep the canonical tag on in my html header part.

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Originally Posted by sjbglx1

Please help! I found out if I turn on the "Ceon URI Mapping ", the "<link rel="canonical" part shows up in the html source code.
I understand this is normal and it suppose to work in this way.

but if I turn off the "Ceon URI Mapping ", then the canonical tag is gone, can anyone guide me how to fix it:

I need to turn off the CEON URI mapping while keep the canonical tag on in my html header part.

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Please see your other thread started about this: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....03#post1357003

When the CEON mod is on , why google bot read the url in different way?

For example, my product 1 url reads like : https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1

then if I create a sitemap, the above URL will be stored as "https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1" for product 1

However, google bot crawls it like : https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1?cPath=categoryname

So google think can not find the product URL in my sitemap.xml.

Why the google bot reads my url in this way? I need them to match each other.

Please advise!

After reading the doc came with the installation,
the "?cPath=...." should be added to each linked product URL ,and the doc says there is no way to avoid it.

my case is odd and opposite, each of my url is missing the "?cPath=...” at the end.:unsure:

anybody has any ideas?

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Originally Posted by torvista

My answer to the concerns people are raising such as this:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....97#post1355697

This plugin is in the public domain and so there is no "owner" nor is anyone responsible for it.
It would seem logical that the CEON family would look after it, to promote the (previously commercial) URI Mappings Manager add-on, but I am not privy to the backstory there.

I made the changes necessary for php7 and ZC155f for my own use and put it on Github for others to use and also to keep the memory going.
Webchills did his own update and uploaded it to the plugins.
I think there is also an update done by the german forum.

I will be reviewing all options when I upgrade to 1.56, which will not be anytime soon, judging by the constant bug reports.

So in the meantime, it's open source, so you can do what you want, or wait and hope that maybe one of the usual altruistic suspects will update it, or pay someone. We are spoilt for choice.

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By the way how did you make the cegories work?

Thank you in advance.

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Originally Posted by sjbglx1

When the CEON mod is on , why google bot read the url in different way?

For example, my product 1 url reads like : https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1

then if I create a sitemap, the above URL will be stored as "https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1" for product 1

However, google bot crawls it like : https:/mysite.com/categoryname/product1?cPath=categoryname

So google think can not find the product URL in my sitemap.xml.

Why the google bot reads my url in this way? I need them to match each other.

Please advise!

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It helps to investigate when a web address is provided. Without it, I would say this:
The presence of ?cPath=x for a product managed by Ceon URI Mapping indicates that the current category where that product is being shown is not the product's master category. The master category is identified at the top of a product's information page in the admin. This plugin will still generate a canonical uri that excludes the cPath parameter. The above question only states the condition of the canonical url and does not say anything about what the web browser shows.

Curious. For the Google link that is identified, the content that follows ?cPath= is it truly categoryname (as in the language word(s) of the category) or is it a series of numbers separated by underscores?

Generally speaking, Google and other search engines don't make up fictitious links. It is expected that the search engine found the link somewhere and added to their list. It may have been on someone else's site or generated internally at some point. It is possible though through google's admin tools to identify the importance of the various parameters and what they mean. Generally speaking the cPath parameter places the product in a group it doesn't define the product itself.