Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

Just my three cents, but since this module is flexible enough to allow you to create custom URIs with your own custom value, what can't you simply create the URI at the time you create the product witht he model included in the URI???

That is indeed what should be done.

I think Conor has made it clear he won't be putting any time or effort into custom variations for how the module generates the URIs..

I wasn't saying that, I may add that functionality in the future.. however I won't ever support the creation of an autogenerated name based on the category path and product name when two products in the same category have the same name. The ability to append the model code may be added but it's not a high priority as, as yo rightly point out, people don't have to use autogenerated URIs, they can enter their own if they want this kind of behaviour at this time.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Trust me when I first saw how the industry names their products it just seemed odd that they can have 10 or so watches with the same name and in many cases its not just black, silver, gold... it may be a completely different shape...but its been like that for hundreds of years and not much little me can do about it.

I understand what you are saying but I don't support backwards ideas! :)

If you go into a shop selling these items are you saying there is no way to order a particular watch? That you must simply say the same name and take what you are given? Whatever colour or shape it is?

I didn't think so.. so what do you ask for?

Then that is the real name of the product! :)

As for the why, I am doing these manually but I can see that this is going to be ongoing and half the time I dont know up front how many a certain name will pop up as they could be spread out through the catalogs of some of these manufactures so Im requesting since you would probably know right of the bat what file to modify to add to the url mapping the route/route/product name_model number.

I completely understand your view and I agree with it, I'm just asking if this is something I can modify for this particular industry while it probably wont fit for 90% of the installs out there.

I'm sorry but I don't provide free custom coding for anyone. You can modify the source files yourself of course, take a look in the functions file in the admin/includes/functions folder for the autogeneration code and change it as desired!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

I wasn't saying that, I may add that functionality in the future.. however I won't ever support the creation of an autogenerated name based on the category path and product name when two products in the same category have the same name. The ability to append the model code may be added but it's not a high priority as, as yo rightly point out, people don't have to use autogenerated URIs, they can enter their own if they want this kind of behaviour at this time.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

I'm sorry but I don't provide free custom coding for anyone.

You KNOW I understand.. however, THIS is what I meant by my previous statement.. and this is understandable since there is a MORE THAN adequate workaround for the time being.. The model number is part of the product record.. It wouldn't take much work using your module to simply create a custom URI which includes the model number if that's what the shopowner desires..

Conversely, adding the model number to the title seems like the shortest path to using the autogenerate feature without hacking your code. The first client I used this module on opted to modify her product names versus having multiple products in the same category with the same name.

I have this to add, IF and when you do add model number support, it should be an admin configurable option whether or not it is a part of the URI as not all shopowners use the mdoel number field..

[richphitzwell]

Just to be clear, I'm not complaining about the logic, not saying its a bug or anything along that line. Just a simple request and you were fully in your rights to deny and I understand fully. Pretty much just means I will have to hunt it down and thats fully acceptable.

As for the products search, it is odd but people search by the name and it pulls up all the variances. I could potentially create attributes but that would cause a number of issues... nontheless I think this topic is almost like if I should continue support of ie6 or 7 lol.

Anywho, thanks for your time and I do enjoy the product very much.

[DivaVocals]

As for the products search, it is odd but people search by the name and it pulls up all the variances. I could potentially create attributes but that would cause a number of issues... nontheless I think this topic is almost like if I should continue support of ie6 or 7 lol.

Not that odd since the match on name would turn up more than one result because there is more than one result using only product name.. What would be odd is to search by model and pull up all the product with the same product name and a different model number..

[richphitzwell]

Not that odd since the match on name would turn up more than one result because there is more than one result using only product name.. What would be odd is to search by model and pull up all the product with the same product name and a different model number..

Ya that came off a bit different than I meant. Dry humor doesn't work well online

[Gunnel]

Hi
Thank you so much for this mod . I really like it!
I have installed it and it works fine with products, ( and also with other pages such as "about" witch I changed in the database) but I can´t get it to work with categories. I have the field in the Catalog/category admin page, but when I write something in the field and save, nothing happens, the field is still empty. I´ve checked the files with WinMerge and I belive I updated and publiced all the relevant files.
(excuse my english)

[conor]

Hi Gunnel,

Thank you so much for this mod . I really like it!

I'm very glad to hear that! ;)

I have installed it and it works fine with products, ( and also with other pages such as "about" witch I changed in the database) but I can´t get it to work with categories. I have the field in the Catalog/category admin page, but when I write something in the field and save, nothing happens, the field is still empty. I´ve checked the files with WinMerge and I belive I updated and publiced all the relevant files.
(excuse my english)

That can only be a problem with the category file not having been merged properly.

If you like, get in contact with FTP and admin details for your site and I can take a quick look at this file for you.

By the way, Beyond Compare is MUCH better than Winmerge, well worth the money! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[hockey2112]

I installed CEON URI Mapping on a website built on 1.3.8a. My URLs now have "class=" appended to them, like this:

http://www.mysite.com/about-us class=

Any idea what would cause this? Was it caused by CEON, or would something else be the more likely culprit? I first noticed the issue immediately after installing CEON, so that seems to be the cause.

thanks for any help you can provide. Let me know if you need the actual URL of the website and I can provide it at that time.

[conor]

Hi,

Any idea what would cause this? Was it caused by CEON, or would something else be the more likely culprit? I first noticed the issue immediately after installing CEON, so that seems to be the cause.

It's definitely not the module, it doesn't change the content of your href tags other than to change the URI generated. It sounds like you've accidentally broken some link code in a template file. Check to see if one of yotu template files has something like the following in it:

<?php echo zen_href_link(...) . ' class="

insetad of something like

<?php echo zen_href_link(...) . '" class="

This would cause "class =" to be added to the end of the URIs.

Good luck in getting this sorted!

All the best...

Conor
ceon