Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[dreamscape]

here is the link it is not working on

http://www.oldwestgames.com/page.html?chapter=0&id=1

What is not working? That page comes up fine.

[mafiasam]

What is not working? That page comes up fine.

I know the page comes up but...

is that a valid page name for the mod to write? is that google safe - it is after all my link exchange page and needs to be read and searched and safe for google and other search engines.

i thought google had a problem with the question marks and that was one of the reasons for this mod. all my other pages have nice html addresses. this one doesn't seem to fit the mold.

[mafiasam]

I know the page comes up but...

is that a valid page name for the mod to write? is that google safe - it is after all my link exchange page and needs to be read and searched and safe for google and other search engines.

i thought google had a problem with the question marks and that was one of the reasons for this mod. all my other pages have nice html addresses. this one doesn't seem to fit the mold.

forget it...i just added this information to the "defined pages" - that gives it a nice clean html address...

http://www.oldwestgames.com/link_exchange.html

which is what I was trying to get for the ez pages. i'll just stay away from ez pages.

[voltage]

Well, one option is to turn off the caching of URL's completely. Since clearing the SEO cache solved the problem, maybe keeping the caching of them off will solve it.

Dreamscape, what is the purpose of the caching of the SEO urls? Does it speed up the site? What would happen if it is turned off?

Thank you so much for posting this Voltage. Yes! That work around works, the only problem is it's temporary solution. It will still happens again and you probably won't know until the customer contacts you again. It's really bizzarre because it only affects previous customer trying to login, it doesn't affect account creation.

Please let me know if you find a permanent solution. Right now, I have turned off Ultimate SEO URL because we get enough customers that this happens to and we actually get email from some of them. Right now, the benefit of this mod is not worth the customer issues.

Thanks for posting your experience. At least now, I know I am not crazy :)

[dreamscape]

Well, one option is to turn off the caching of URL's completely. Since clearing the SEO cache solved the problem, maybe keeping the caching of them off will solve it.

Dreamscape, what is the purpose of the caching of the SEO urls? Does it speed up the site? What would happen if it is turned off?

The urls themselves are not cached, but queries to get the url name for items are.

For example, on a product listing page, if you are listing 15 products, then that is 15 queries to create the product URLs, one per product. With the cache on, those are saved and there is just 1 query to restore the cache. Regardless of on or off though, a query for the same item is always cached on each request, so if those 15 products each had 3 links on the page, it would still only be 15 queries with the cache off.

I'm not sure why the login URL would be affected by the cache since there is nothing to lookup in the database for it. The cache should have no affect on URLs like that. It should only affect URLs that query the database to build the URL.

I'm really not sure what is going on because it has been awhile since I abandoned Chemo's code in favor of a more flexible system built from scratch. If only I could find the time to complete it

[BlessIsaacola]

Dreamscape, Will donations from people really interested in a mod like this speed up the process?

[voltage]

Yes, I would be interested too.

Dreamscape, Will donations from people really interested in a mod like this speed up the process?

[dreamscape]

Dreamscape, Will donations from people really interested in a mod like this speed up the process?

Yes, I would be interested too.

Yes absolutely. Lack of funding is what is holding it up. I'm not independently wealthy (yet), so most of my programming time goes to earning income, and the rest of my time I really don't feel like programming or burning myself out ;-)

The new version is about 80%-85% of the way completed, and I probably need about 10 - 15 dedicated hours to complete it.

If there are enough people interested in donating to fund completion, I can set up something at fundable.org

[voltage]

Hey Dreamscape,
How much are we looking at for 10 - 15 hours?

Yes absolutely. Lack of funding is what is holding it up. I'm not independently wealthy (yet), so most of my programming time goes to earning income, and the rest of my time I really don't feel like programming or burning myself out ;-)

The new version is about 80%-85% of the way completed, and I probably need about 10 - 15 dedicated hours to complete it.

If there are enough people interested in donating to fund completion, I can set up something at fundable.org

[dreamscape]

Ok, I started a fund drive over at fundable.org for completing development of version 3 of this module:

https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/zencart-seo-urls

Note: The fundraiser is open for only 25 days.

Note: You don't pay upfront. You make a pledge now for whatever amount you want to give, and you only pay if and when the fund goal is reached.