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[yellow1912]

Gomlers, yes you can.

First, assuming the language code for Norwegian is "no" (please check, Im not sure)

Create a file named no.php

Put it in includes/classes/ssu/plugins/languages/

Now, for the content of the file, put it:
(make sure this php file is utf8 encoded)

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: ru.php 218 2009-07-20 02:38:17Z yellow1912 $
*/
    // note: we can later move part of this function into sub-functions, which we can store in the base class.
class SSULanguageNo extends SSULanguage{
    static function parseName($name){
        $cyrillic = array("æ",  "ø",  "å");
           
        $translit = array("ae", "o", "a");
        
        $name = str_replace($cyrillic, $translit, $name);
        
        $name = strtolower($name);
   
        // we replace any non alpha numeric characters by the name delimiter
        $name = self::removeNonAlphaNumeric($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // Remove short words first
        $name = self::removeShortWords($name, SSUConfig::registry('configs', 'minimum_word_length'), SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // trim the sentence
        $name = self::trimLongName($name);
                
        // remove excess SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name')
        $name = self::removeDelimiter($name);
        
        // remove identifiers
        $name = self::removeIdentifiers($name);
        
        // remove trailing _
        $name = trim($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        return urlencode($name);    
    }
}

Then rename local.config.php.example in includes/classes/ssu/ to local.config.php and edit it:

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: local.config.php.example 149 2009-03-04 05:23:35Z yellow1912 $
*/
    
    $ssuLocalConfig = array(      
        'languages'        =>    array(    'no'    =>    'no'
                                    )
    );

Then go to Admin->Extras->SSU Manager to clear out the cache then check your links again.
Troubleshooting:
1. Make sure the first file is uploaded with utf8 encode
2. Make sure the language code is correct (this is easy, in the normal form Zencart language links look like this: index.php?.......&language=language_code
More info:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...our_own_parser

Note that I assume the language code is "no"

[Gomlers]

Wow! Thank you for a perfect answer, and such quick reply - when this is the service you give for your free products... I wouldn't hesitate to buy anything from you later :)
This really saves it - I have a lot of special characters in the product category-names/products-names, and it doesn't look real good right now ;)

Thank you again!! :)

[Gomlers]

I did what you said, and it works perfectly!

The only thing which didn't work was to save the first file as UTF-8, I needed to save it as ASCII.
Don't know why, but it works like a charm :)

Now I only need to go through the aliases and learn how they work - my URL's got a little too long.

Btw, what's the difference between the real rewritten link, and the alias? - What would google see?

[yellow1912]

If you use aliases, google will only see the aliases
(this makes sure that each page should have only 1 url)

[weber]

i have a page http://localhost/index.php?main_page=account was then redirect to http://localhost/account which show

Not Found

The requested URL /account was not found on this server.

[diapercakesmall]

Great addon.
I have a question about duplicate content and names of categories in URLs for products.
If I have one product in different categories for ease of use for customers, then I get multiple urls for the same page.
For example: same t-shirt is in male category and in large category and in black t-shirts.

site.com/male/mytshirt
site.com/large/myshirt
site.com/blackshirts/myshirt

Same item description is ending up in 3 different urls, which is duplicate content. Any way to avoid that?
I would love to find a way to just have all the link in the root of the store ( without any category level).

Thank you!

[yellow1912]

Great addon.
I have a question about duplicate content and names of categories in URLs for products.
If I have one product in different categories for ease of use for customers, then I get multiple urls for the same page.
For example: same t-shirt is in male category and in large category and in black t-shirts.

site.com/male/mytshirt
site.com/large/myshirt
site.com/blackshirts/myshirt

Same item description is ending up in 3 different urls, which is duplicate content. Any way to avoid that?
I would love to find a way to just have all the link in the root of the store ( without any category level).

Thank you!

You can use cannonical links for this purpose. I will think about adding cannonical feature in the next version

[tilenk]

Gomlers, yes you can.

First, assuming the language code for Norwegian is "no" (please check, Im not sure)

Create a file named no.php

Put it in includes/classes/ssu/plugins/languages/

Now, for the content of the file, put it:
(make sure this php file is utf8 encoded)

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: ru.php 218 2009-07-20 02:38:17Z yellow1912 $
*/
    // note: we can later move part of this function into sub-functions, which we can store in the base class.
class SSULanguageNo extends SSULanguage{
    static function parseName($name){
        $cyrillic = array("æ",  "ø",  "å");
           
        $translit = array("ae", "o", "a");
        
        $name = str_replace($cyrillic, $translit, $name);
        
        $name = strtolower($name);
   
        // we replace any non alpha numeric characters by the name delimiter
        $name = self::removeNonAlphaNumeric($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // Remove short words first
        $name = self::removeShortWords($name, SSUConfig::registry('configs', 'minimum_word_length'), SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // trim the sentence
        $name = self::trimLongName($name);
                
        // remove excess SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name')
        $name = self::removeDelimiter($name);
        
        // remove identifiers
        $name = self::removeIdentifiers($name);
        
        // remove trailing _
        $name = trim($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        return urlencode($name);    
    }
}

Then rename local.config.php.example in includes/classes/ssu/ to local.config.php and edit it:

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: local.config.php.example 149 2009-03-04 05:23:35Z yellow1912 $
*/
    
    $ssuLocalConfig = array(      
        'languages'        =>    array(    'no'    =>    'no'
                                    )
    );

Then go to Admin->Extras->SSU Manager to clear out the cache then check your links again.
Troubleshooting:
1. Make sure the first file is uploaded with utf8 encode
2. Make sure the language code is correct (this is easy, in the normal form Zencart language links look like this: index.php?.......&language=language_code
More info:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...our_own_parser

Note that I assume the language code is "no"

Hello. I have the same problem as mr. from Norway up there. I did everything as you mentioned above, but the SSU works, however Slovenian language does NOT. For all the special characters I get "-" instead of the letter.

Here's the UTF-8 encoded

/includes/classes/ssu/plugins/languages/si.php

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: ru.php 218 2009-07-20 02:38:17Z yellow1912 $
*/
    // note: we can later move part of this function into sub-functions, which we can store in the base class.
class SSULanguageSi extends SSULanguage{
    static function parseName($name){
        $cyrillic = array("č",  "Č",  "Š",  "š",  "Ž",  "ž",  "Ć",  "ć");
           
        $translit = array("c",  "C",  "S",  "s",  "Z",  "z",  "C",  "c");
        
        $name = str_replace($cyrillic, $translit, $name);
        
        $name = strtolower($name);
   
        // we replace any non alpha numeric characters by the name delimiter
        $name = self::removeNonAlphaNumeric($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // Remove short words first
        $name = self::removeShortWords($name, SSUConfig::registry('configs', 'minimum_word_length'), SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        // trim the sentence
        $name = self::trimLongName($name);
                
        // remove excess SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name')
        $name = self::removeDelimiter($name);
        
        // remove identifiers
        $name = self::removeIdentifiers($name);
        
        // remove trailing _
        $name = trim($name, SSUConfig::registry('delimiters', 'name'));
        
        return urlencode($name);    
    }
}

and here's the includes/classes/ssu/local.config.php

<?php
/**
* @package Pages
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: local.config.php.example 149 2009-03-04 05:23:35Z yellow1912 $
*/
    
    $ssuLocalConfig = array(      
        'languages'        =>    array(    'si'    =>    'si'
                                    )
    );

I cleared the cache also after the modification, but still doesn't work.

check my WEBSITE where I'm trying to fix it... click on the "Platišča" for instance, and you'll see..