Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

[lhungil]

What is the latest stable version of this plugin?

The version posted in the plugins section of zen-cart.com. Version: 2.212 (Final). For the most part only BETA testers get access to download any BETA versions I've written of this plugin.

[Rony]

Not working. The shopping Cart page is not opening ...... When I click "Add to Cart" button, Page Not Found error shows up, instead of the cart page.

Also for some pages its not generating URL's correctly. Leaving empty spaces in between words.

Log file is showing this error .....

Unable to parse URL in public_html/store/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1273


I am using a fresh install of Zencart v1.5.1

Ultimate SEO Version 2.212

BTW, when I disable Ultimate SEO from Admin Panel, everything works perfectly.

[Rony]

Never mind, Found the problem. I uploaded .htaccess file to the Root folder. Shifted it to the "Store" folder where Zencart is installed, and everything is working now. Cheers.

[lhungil]

Never mind, Found the problem. I uploaded .htaccess file to the Root folder. Shifted it to the "Store" folder where Zencart is installed, and everything is working now. Cheers.

Glad you were able to get everything sorted, and thank you for reporting back :)

[Rony]

Thanks, Although I got it working for the time being. I had to disable the CSS3-Buttons addon. I request developers of Ultimate-SEO to make it compatible with CSS3-Button addon, if possible. Both addons make changes to the html_output.php file which render the other addon dysfunctional.

[PearceStephens]

How do i tell in the affected files which bit of code to merge into my existing files??? Is there a comment anywhere informing me where to start and finish?

[lhungil]

I request developers of Ultimate-SEO to make it compatible with CSS3-Button addon, if possible.

As far as I know they are compatible. Just because two modules make changes to the same file does not mean the modules are not compatible. You will just need to look through the changes each module makes, see what is different, and then merge the changes together. As they do not modify the same functions in "html_output.php", installing both modules should be relatively easy using a file comparison or merge tool.

How do i tell in the affected files which bit of code to merge into my existing files??? Is there a comment anywhere informing me where to start and finish?

Good Question. WinMerge, BeyondCompare, and a number of other tools provide a side-by-side line-by-line comparison between two files indicating where the files are different, what is different, and allowing you to "merge" the code from one side to the other. These and similar tools are the fastest way to merge changes to any core "Zen Cart" files.

I would highly recommend installing and using one of these tools if you have made ANY changes to "Zen Cart". They are definitely time savers and have many other uses ;)

Why no comment such as "START USU" / "STOP USU" in those files? For the most part the changes made by this module are very minor and consist of only one block of code (I avoid changing core files or core database tables).

The only file with extensive changes is the 1.5.x "query_factory.php". This file was modified to provide more consistent output and address some bugs. The "query_factory.php" file in the distribution under consideration for inclusion in the next "Zen Cart" release. For Zen Cart 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 you should just override the old file with the file in the distribution of this module.

[lhungil]

Description
Generated URI's do not conform to w3c standards if categories, products, manufacturers, or other names include characters not allowed in a URI by RFC 3986 (such as Cyrillic characters). Most browsers will automatically correct the URI's without the need for this patch.

Applying this patch will cause URI's generated by "Ultimate SEO URLs" to follow RFC 3986 and encode any relevant characters. After applying the patch the affected environments will generate URI's passing W3C Validation and other modules calling zen_href_link will receive a properly formatted URI.

Affected Environments
Zen Cart installations using UTF8 and utilizing languages which contain non ISO-Latin-1 characters.

Credits
Issue reported by the.rampage.rado and a_berezin.

The Fix
Starting at line 831 in 'seo.url.php' (version 2.212) change:

		// Replace any remaining whitespace with a -
		$retval = preg_replace('/\s/', '-', $retval);

		return $this->short_name($retval); // return the short filtered name
	} # end function

with:

		// Replace any remaining whitespace with a -
		$retval = preg_replace('/\s/', '-', $retval);

		// return the short filtered and urlencoded name
		return rawurlencode($this->short_name($retval));

Notes
While this fix should work on all supported versions of Zen Cart, it has only been tested against Zen Cart 1.5.1 at this time.

[Rony]

As far as I know they are compatible. Just because two modules make changes to the same file does not mean the modules are not compatible. You will just need to look through the changes each module makes, see what is different, and then merge the changes together. As they do not modify the same functions in "html_output.php", installing both modules should be relatively easy using a file comparison or merge tool.

They modify same functions at few places ..... If you have merged these files, and both are working, please post the merged file here. It will really help us all. Plz see attached, The report created by WinMerge highlighting the same functions modified.

Good Question. WinMerge, BeyondCompare, and a number of other tools provide a side-by-side line-by-line comparison between two files indicating where the files are different, what is different, and allowing you to "merge" the code from one side to the other.

Plz see attached, The report created by WinMerge.

If the attached image is too small, please see this URL ..... http://imageshack.us/a/img845/8149/useo.gif

Thanks

[Rony]

Here is another little thing that causing a little trouble ....

For 2 of our products .... The URL's generated are like this ....



Notice the blank spaces highlighted with black underline .....

Does anyone know how to fix these blank spaces ?

Any input is highly appreciated.

Thanks