Dynamic Filter [Support Thread]

[kitten091182]

I am now having the same problem using Dynamic filter along with SBA table.

Is there a way to display all attributes, regardless of the number of attributes in stock, even when zero?

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

[Design75]

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

Did you remember to add the filter attributes to your canonical.php

From the manual:

Canonical Support
Canonical support, which is built in to Zen Cart can be used to omit Dynamic Filter variables from the generated canonical tag by adding your filter variables to the $excludeParams array in the following file (not supplied in this distribution):

• includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php

For example, if your store has the option 'Colour', add the following line of code shown in red, found around line 18:

• // EXCLUDE certain parameters which should not be included in canonical links:
• $excludeParams = array('zenid', 'action', 'main_page', 'currency', 'typefilter', 'gclid', 'search_in_description', 'pto', 'pfrom', 'dto', 'dfrom', 'inc_subcat');
• $excludeParams[] = 'disp_order';
• $excludeParams[] = 'page';
• $excludeParams[] = 'sort';
• $excludeParams[] = 'alpha_filter_id';
• $excludeParams[] = 'filter_id';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_source';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_medium';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_content';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_campaign';
• $excludeParams[] = 'language';
• $excludeParams[] = DYNAMIC_FILTER_PREFIX . 'Colour';

[Kevin205]

I having been getting the following error for days.

[19-Nov-2013 08:03:02 America/Denver] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /public_html/includes/templates/***/sideboxes/tpl_dynamic_filter.php on line 79

I eliminated the error by disabling the Dynamic Filter on All Products Page, in Dynamic Filter configuration.

I really wish there was a way Dynamic filter would NOT look at the inventory level to display; products that their attributes are either set to Read Only (Option Type), or when Used For Display Purposes Only is set to Yes in (Attribute Flag)!

It is really useless to keep track of inventory for a Read Only attributes and when the attribute Flag is set to Display Only attribute! I think it will also speedup the queries and will stop generating errors as indicated above.

[Kevin205]

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

I eliminated that issue by deleting the default, main site meta tags and used individual category and product meta tags instead.