Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[zacheos]

That is the standard 404 error handler code for an htaccess redirect... Though that has not worked for my scripts...

Is this working on your site?

[voltage]

Nah, false alarm. Only works if the page doesn't end in html. So . . . answer is no. Sorry for my ignorance.

As far as your request for the authors to help, this is a mod that was ported from oscommerce. The guy who originally ported it did support if off and on at first, but its been a while since he has responded to any posts.

[Woodymon]

Reviewing this thread and the archived thread at http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21801

Has anyone put together a list of issues with the latest version of this mod and ZC 1.3x. More specifically 1.3.0.2? And a list of mods not supported when SEFU is installed and/or a list of workarounds and patches?

Also where is source of latest version?

Would that be in the Zen Cart downloads "archive area" (Dr Bytes version updated for ZC 1301 dated 04-22-06):
http://www.zen-cart.com/archived_con...rls_v2.101.zip

If it works well wondering why it would not be listed in the regular ZC mod downloads area?

And I find Dreamscape's previous version here (2005-07-22 – Version 2.100)
http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zenca...RLs_v2.100.zip

Is there a newer version? It appears this mod may no longer be under development?

Same goes for Tim's SEO mod at http://www.breakmyzencart.com/sefu

Anyone take the SEFU leap with either mod on Zen Cart 1.3.0.2? If so what kind of results did you achieve? Worth the hassle? Any special "gotchas's" to overcome or be aware of?

Woody

[voltage]

Well, I've installed it on my test site (1.3.1) and so far everything seems to work fine. The only problems I've ran into is the lack of 404 page and a problem with custom product types (they work but if the product has attributes, the product link in the shopping cart doesn't work). I have a heavily modded cart and all seem to work, including image handler with a few tweaks.

Edit*

I'm using the mod upgraded by Dr Byte.

[webman]

Hi Woodymon,

I am cursed with the 1054 Unknown column 'c.parent_id' in 'on clause' error!

I have spent the past 2 weeks with Dr Bytes updated mod and I have a 50% success rate. I upgraded a zen cart from 1.2.6 to 1.3.0.2 and USEO worked like a charm.

The next upgrade was from V1.2.7 to 1.3.0.2 and here is where the wheels fell of the cart so to speak. After reading and re-reading the posts and trying all the various fixes time and time again I find I still get the same error message using V1.3.0.2:

1054 Unknown column 'c.parent_id' in 'on clause'
in:
[SELECT c.categories_id as id, c.parent_id, cd.categories_name as cName, cd2.categories_name as pName FROM categories c, categories_description cd LEFT JOIN categories_description cd2 ON c.parent_id=cd2.categories_id AND cd2.language_id='1' WHERE c.categories_id=cd.categories_id AND cd.language_id='1']

Then I figure the heck with it let's do a squeaky clean install of both Zen V1.3.0.2 and USEO V2.101 in a test area to see if any of the mods I had installed caused the problem... the result... once again I find I get the same error message and none of the suggested bug fixes and no amount of cache resets fixed the problem.

In summary, my experiences shows there is something a miss with USEO V2.101 when upgrading from V1.2.7 to V1.3.0.2. Where as, upgrading from V1.2.6 (and possibly earlier versions) of zen seems to work AOK with Dr Bytes USEO V2.101.

Hope this is what experiences you may of been looking for...

PS if anyone has USEO working with V1.3.0.2 I'd be happy to hear how you got it to work. :)

Les :)

[zacheos]

I have 1.3.0.2 cart installed with Ultimate SEO URLs version 2.101

Both are working great... with no problems other than the non-existent handling of 404 error re-directs.

What is your site? From your description of your error, it sounds as though one file in your SEO URL's mod is a little a miss.

You may view my work in progress at www (dot) sojournglass (dot) com - it that helps any.

[webman]

Hi zacheos,

Many thanks for your reply.

I do have V2.101 USEO working with one zen 1.3.0.2 but for the life of me it just won't work on another site running zen version 1.3.0.2? Weird eh?

I even copied all the V2.101 USEO files from the working site to the non-working site but this didn't work either.

Hope you find the solution to your 404 issue. :)

[monkeymadness]

hello

i have this mod working on 1.3.02 which i'll explain how to do below...a few minor issues that i'm not sure are important

adds .html to every page so if you type in yourdomain.com/contact_us it'll take you to the custom page not found but if you type yourdomain.com/contact_us.html you'll get there

doesnt like ez pages

to get the page not found to appear instead of the home page try the setting in admin > config >my store > missing page check > page not found
it may be too simple to be the answer but its all i can think of seeing as it works for me

to get ultimate seo to work on 1.3.2 go to dreamscapes site

http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zenca...mate_SEO_URLs/

download the mod and upload the files

go to installation on the dreamscape site

ignore the 2 instruction of changing application_top.php

instead go to the directory /includes/init_includes
edit the file init_templates.php

look for the location where a line which says:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
include_once(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . *$_SESSION['language'] . '.php');
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
insert following lines immediate after this location:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
// line added for SEO v2.100

require_once(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'seo.url.php');

if (!is_object($seo_urls)) {
$seo_urls = &new SEO_URL($_SESSION['languages_id']);
}

// end of line addition to SEO v2.100
------------------------------------------------------------------------

then go back to dreamscapes site and follow the instructions 3-8

dont forget to add the paypal fix to seo.url.php

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The problem: the paypal payment mod is using zen_href_link to construct the notify url. We need to tell the SEO mod to skip modifying this url.

The solution: In the class file seo.url.php we just have to add a check for ipn_main_handler.php

Find the function function href_link()

The very beginning of the function has code like:

Code:
// don't rewrite when disabled
// don't rewrite images, css, js, xml, real html files, etc
if ( ($this->attributes['SEO_ENABLED'] == 'false') || (preg_match('/(.+)\.(html?|xml|css|js|png|jpe?g|gif|bmp|tiff?|ico|gz|zip|rar)$/i', $page)) ) {
return $this->stock_href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, true, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
}


Immediately after that, add the following:

Code:
// don't rewrite the paypal IPN notify url
if ($page == 'ipn_main_handler.php') {
return $this->stock_href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, true, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
}

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and remember to compare and merge the html_output.php if your using imagehandler2

thats all i did...thanks to zenhorocks who worked it out in another achived thread somewhere out there

hope it helps....if anyone knows how of get rid of the .html it would be much appreciated as it doesnt seem right

good luck

[webman]

Hi monkeymadness,

Many thanks for taking the time to post an extensive how-to. Unfortunately it didn't fix the 1054 Unknown column issue. I'll keep trying to fix the problem and post back here if I ever get it resolved.

[dreamscape]

The guy who originally ported it did support if off and on at first, but its been a while since he has responded to any posts.

I still do support it. I'm not around much in community support thread here because I don't have much time for that; I did when I was still a student, but not anymore. However, this thread is for community support. I certainly still offer commercial support, and have even placed a support page on the mod's mini-site to let people be aware of this since I don't participate in the community thread much anymore.

If there is little community support, there is nothing I can do about that; that task is up to the community if it so wishes to support itself. However, I still do and always will support the mod until the day I publicly announce that I'm not supporting it anymore.

Is there a newer version? It appears this mod may no longer be under development?

I can assure you that it still is under development, albeit slow development. I've already done quite a bit of work on a new version, but remember I'm developing this in my spare time, and it is not the only thing I do in my spare time. I have countless projects I sometimes work on in my spare time, so unless someone or a group of people is willing to fund the rest of development on the new version, you just have to take it as it comes.

I've thought about putting up a campaign on fundable.org for the rest of development on the new version, and posted something to that effect awhile ago, and though many were quick to express interest in the new version, nobody expressed any sort of interest in helping to fund the new version. If anyone is interested in contributing to a group fund to complete development on the new version, then by all means speak up and don't lurk in the shadows. ;)