Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[BlessIsaacola]

I too was forced to turn off recreate sessions because of login problems. I had hoped that this issue would be possibly addressed in the new release, but since the author has gone MIA since collecting the contributions . . .

Voltage, thanks for reporting back your work around. I know that we discussed this last year without a solid resolution. It's too bad that Dreamscape did not deliver after we all made contributions.

Have you had any problems not recreating sessions? I am still concern that it's possible for two customers to share a session (and turning off recreate session really makes me nervous).

Please let us know if you come up with a solution that still allows recreate session. It sounds like Absolute has a fix but nothing has been posted.

[doodlebee]

Hey all, I'm having an issue I hope someone can help me with. I've searched the forums and found *some* information, but it doesn't seem to help with my issue.

I'm running ZenCart 1.3.6. We've installed the SEO URLs contribution, and everything works great. Actually, my problem is on the admin end - and it's an annoyance - but it doesn't seem to be messing with the actual functionality of the contribution.

The "weirdness" began happening immediately after resetting the SEO URL cache. Prior to this, there was no problem at all - but when we reset, we started getting all of these weird errors.

1) In the SEO URL area (under configuration), there is *always* an error that says:

Warning: call_user_func(zen_reset_cache_data_seo_urls): First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home/SITENAME/public_html/admin/includes/functions/general.php on line 1528

2) When we update *any* product in the catalog, we get some MAJOR errors. Again, none of them seem to really affect anything - as the changes are always taken, but it's soooo annoying because, when we click "Update" from the "preview" screen of the product we're editing, instead of just updating, it takes us to this page with a list of errors:

Warning: main(includes/reset_seo_cache.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/SITENAME/public_html/admin/product.php on line 18

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/reset_seo_cache.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/SITENAME/public_html/admin/product.php on line 18

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/SITENAME/public_html/admin/product.php:18) in /home/SITENAME/public_html/admin/includes/functions/general.php on line 34

When we hit the "back" button, the "preview" page now shows all of the edits we've made, and they've taken on the site as well. So it's not really something that's damaging the site, but it's really annoying to have to do this every time.

Again, this all happened when we reset the cache. Oh, I should also mention that I have this on a local installation as well, and have had no issues with it. One thing I've noticed between the live install and the local is that, after resetting the SEO cache, on the *local* installation, in the last line "Reset SEO URLs cache", has an value next to it (true, false, etc.). But in the live install, after hitting this reset, there is no value at all - it's totally blank.

So if anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

[tvadpro]

I dunno if this helps, but whenever I install a contribution and it misbehaves, e.g. throws warnings, omits components in the admin, etc., I usually wind up uninstalling and then re-installing before it works as expected. Both uninstalling and re-installing can be tedious and time-consuming, but more often than not I learn in the process that I had accidentally skipped something in the initial installation.

I'll shut up now, as the folks who are familiar with Chemo's might know exactly what's causing your problems.

Good luck,
Sean

[BlessIsaacola]

Absolute, Tvadpro and Voltage,

Do you guys have a solution for the Ultimate SEO URL that doesn't involve turning off recreate sessions?

Thanks!

[doodlebee]

whenever I install a contribution and it misbehaves, e.g. throws warnings, omits components in the admin, etc., I usually wind up uninstalling and then re-installing before it works as expected.

Thanks, TV - this is most certainly an option, but we'd like it to be a "last-ditch effort" in fixing the issue. It has been though of though :)

[tvadpro]

This is everything I know so far:

• Occasionally members are unable to log in when recreate sessions is TRUE. Maybe this behavior is influenced by SEO URLs, and maybe it isn't.
• If recreate sessions is FALSE, there might be a slim chance that two customers will share a session-ID and one will unwittingly gain access to the other's account information, address book, etc.
• Disabling SEO URLs might fix the recreate sessions log-in problem, and it might not.

I need to know more about this, so if anyone can shed some light, please share what you know.

Sean

Absolute, Tvadpro and Voltage,

Do you guys have a solution for the Ultimate SEO URL that doesn't involve turning off recreate sessions?

Thanks!

[BlessIsaacola]

This is everything I know so far:

• Occasionally members are unable to log in when recreate sessions is TRUE. Maybe this behavior is influenced by SEO URLs, and maybe it isn't.
• If recreate sessions is FALSE, there might be a slim chance that two customers will share a session-ID and one will unwittingly gain access to the other's account information, address book, etc.
• Disabling SEO URLs might fix the recreate sessions log-in problem, and it might not.

I need to know more about this, so if anyone can shed some light, please share what you know.

Sean

Your first bullet is true and the behavior is completely DUE TO Ultimate SEO URL. We've been using Zen Cart for almost 3 years and the ONLY time that turning recreate session ON becomes an issue is when using Ultimate SEO URL Mod (It's a problem specific to this mod NOT Zen Cart).

Your second bullet is also true... Although, it's a slight chance it's still a risk factor to take into account.

It appears from other posts that the only way to get Ultimate SEO URL working without login issue is to disable recreate sessions on the admin side.

Thanks!

[tvadpro]

Thank you, Isaac -- so, if I understand correctly, the only problem with the current release of Chemo's is it doesn't play nicely with recreate sessions. Are there any other problems with SEO URLs?

I don't know how to fix it myself, but I would pay a competent programmer to fix it for me. I understand more than one of you donated money to the development of SEO-URLs; since I am in no way involved in that deal, I won't comment on any disputes pertaining thereto.

I will, however, announce my standard terms for the benefit of any interested programmers. When considering quotes, I check references (unless I already have experience with the contractor). Once I've chosen a contractor, I pay half in advance, and withhold the balance until the contractor completes the project satisfactorily.

If no one listening to this thread is interested, I'll post in the help-wanted forum and see what happens. Interested programmers should email or PM me.

Your first bullet is true and the behavior is completely DUE TO Ultimate SEO URL. We've been using Zen Cart for almost 3 years and the ONLY time that turning recreate session ON becomes an issue is when using Ultimate SEO URL Mod (It's a problem specific to this mod NOT Zen Cart).

Your second bullet is also true... Although, it's a slight chance it's still a risk factor to take into account.

It appears from other posts that the only way to get Ultimate SEO URL working without login issue is to disable recreate sessions on the admin side.

Thanks!

[BlessIsaacola]

Thank you, Isaac -- so, if I understand correctly, the only problem with the current release of Chemo's is it doesn't play nicely with recreate sessions. Are there any other problems with SEO URLs?

I don't know how to fix it myself, but I would pay a competent programmer to fix it for me. I understand more than one of you donated money to the development of SEO-URLs; since I am in no way involved in that deal, I won't comment on any disputes pertaining thereto.

I will, however, announce my standard terms for the benefit of any interested programmers. When considering quotes, I check references (unless I already have experience with the contractor). Once I've chosen a contractor, I pay half in advance, and withhold the balance until the contractor completes the project satisfactorily.

If no one listening to this thread is interested, I'll post in the help-wanted forum and see what happens. Interested programmers should email or PM me.

Well, the login problem is the main reason why most people end up giving up on this mod but there are other issues with this mod that have readily available work-around.

Some of the other well documented issues are PayPal IPN, Product Types, EZPages, etc. Keep in mind that there are work arounds except for the login problem.

With regard to the contribution we all made for Dreamscape to finish this thing up, that's an entirely different issue.

[voltage]

Hi BlessIsaacola,

Yes there were login problems on our site. I had a few customers complain about not being able to login. However I could not for the life of me replicate the problem. Then one night on my wife's computer, I was not able to login using firefox. I tried and tried, but everytime I hit login, it would just refresh the login page. When I turned off SEO, it worked. When I turned it back on, it didn't. And when I turned off the recreate sessions I was able to login. I

have played with it since, turning recreate sessions on and off. I have also since changed hosts and have wondered if maybe it was caused by some weird incompatibility with my host's settings and SEO. But I have been too afraid to turn back on recreate sessions because of the trouble my customers used to have loggin in.

So that is my experience for what its worth.

Thanks