Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

Thanks for the great mod. I'm using 4.0.3 and it worked perfectly straight "out of the box" Love it.

I solved the upgrade issue by re-uploading the files. Something must have not transferred properly the first time. Great software. Love it! Thank you!

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Just installed v4.04 in my store 1.39h
Everything working great.
The problem i'm having is with the multiple languages on my site.

i.e. the languages Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, french and portugues.

When entering the product title descriptions for each of the languages
and saving them using encoding utf-8 , all the characters are preserved within the title descriptions however the auto generated URL's for each of the languages convert the russian, chinese and japanese characters to numbers as in Unicode. Also the French and Portugues accented characters are also converted to numbers.
English characters remain untouched.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I upgraded to 4.03 and imported my uris from another database to my new one. all the current urls work, but for some reason, in the backend I am not getting an option to generate an url when creating new products. Old products dont even have the option to automatically generate them, only the categories are giving the option.

It passes all the installation checks but can not get it to work..any ideas what can be wrong?

kal130:

I upgraded to 4.03 and imported my uris from another database to my new one. all the current urls work, but for some reason, in the backend I am not getting an option to generate an url when creating new products. Old products dont even have the option to automatically generate them, only the categories are giving the option.

It passes all the installation checks but can not get it to work..any ideas what can be wrong?

4.04 I meant...

For anyone expecting quick help from Conor, if you read back through this thread you'll see he was about to go for surgery and expects to be away for some time.

I can report the initial op went "as well as expected" but there is more yet to be done. Knowing Conor, he will probably be trying to persuade the nursing staff to give him a room where he can get online, but please be aware that in reality, it could be days or weeks before he is able to respond.

kal130:

4.04 I meant...

Ok I figured out what was wrong and now it shows mapping information on the page where i create the products, on the preview page, it shows the correct mapping, but for some reason it does not insert it into the database.

I can use phpmyadmin and manually enter it and it works properly, but it no longer allows me to automatically put them into the database. Again, all checks came back successful..has anyone ran into this or can help?

conor:

Hi,

Try switching off Ceon URI Mapping and seeing if there is still a problem (Option in configuration menu).

I do have a small bug fixed in version 4.0.4 which may cause such behaviour (file being included when it should be excluded).. however, this ONLY affects very specific server configs (so far Apache on a local Windoze test server.. not on Linux).

If after switching off Ceon URI Mapping there is still a problem then I'm afraid then you've ruled out Ceon URI Mapping as being the source of the problem and would be better posting in GoDataFeed's thread.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

I ran into this same problem and turning off the htaccess file didn't change the problem but this is on my server so the mystery is still unsolved.

Hi,

teqbean:

I solved the upgrade issue by re-uploading the files. Something must have not transferred properly the first time. Great software. Love it! Thank you

Yes, I was going to say that a problem must have occurred with your FTP software.

Glad you like the software!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

kal130:

Ok I figured out what was wrong and now it shows mapping information on the page where i create the products, on the preview page, it shows the correct mapping, but for some reason it does not insert it into the database.

It sounds like you haven't made the changes to the modified files properly. The installation check is probably finding the changes it expects as it can only test some of the code and you probably, unluckily, changed just the part it tests.

Go through all of the modified files one by one again and make sure you have applied the modifications properly. Specially check the update_product.php file as it sounds like you've messed up with it.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

delia:

I ran into this same problem and turning off the htaccess file didn't change the problem but this is on my server so the mystery is still unsolved.

The software has NO known bugs so this is most likely a problem on your server with something.

Unfortunately I couldn't tell without a full description of the problem and access to the server in question.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

vko82:

Hello

thanks for cool SEO mod, but there's something I don't know how to solve and I'm seeking for help. I am using ceon_uri_mapping_4.0.3_for_zc.zip with ZC 1.3.8a, with installed news and articles plugin by Dreamscape.

I do not know how to automatically generate seo-friendly urls with CEON mod. There is a new article going out around every second day and the database contains already 150 articles, which requires entering manually 150 entries into the ceo_uri_mappings mysql table..

There is no built-in support for the news and articles module. Sorry, you will have to make do with its dynamic URIs, manually add URIs, or get/commission someone to add support for static URIs to the news and articles plugin.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

willieWontGo:

I added a new top level category with two sub-cats.

Now, I get a 403 error, just for those new categories.

All of the previous categories work fine.

Sorry as there are no known bugs with the software I'm afraid that I don't know what is going wrong for you.

If you send me FTP and admin details at this address I may get time to take a quick look.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,

A new version of Ceon URI Mapping has now been released.

This is a minor update but as it is so easy to update now, all are recommended to update.

From the Revision History:

[UPDATED] Support added for changing the capitalisation of product URI mappings. Previously solely changing the captialisation of a product URI mapping would result in a clash being flagged, preventing the change being saved. Changing the capitalisation is now allowed, with the process making full use of the historical URI functionality.

[UPDATED] The version Id header lines have been updated in some of the core modified files as they were out of sync with the lines in the equivalent fresh versions of Zen Cart. This has no effect whatsoever on anything other than to make the modification of files less ambiguous for those that don't have their comparison software configured to ignore version ID lines.

The second item above only affects new installs, existing users have nothing to do, it can be ignored!

Version 4.0.5 can be downloaded now from the Ceon website.

It has been submitted to the downloads area and should be available there soon.

Enjoy!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

v4.0.5 in store 1.39h

Can't seem to save the chinese,japanese or russian characters in the url's.
if these characters are entered manually in the categories' pages and then saved a combination of alphanumeric characters appear in the database and the Admin category and product pages.
if these characters are entered manually directly into the database, they appear correctly in the database when saved, however the URL addresses don't work.

Help greatly needed

Hi,

mikebr:

Can't seem to save the chinese,japanese or russian characters in the urlls

URIs can only have alphanumeric characters plus a few special characters in them (dashes, full stops, underscores, slashes).

Japanese characters must be transliterated into these characters.

If this is not happening for you then you must have the wrong character set settings in your store. Make sure you are using UTF8.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Hi Ceon:
So if I understand you correctly it is best to use the english category and product titles for the russian, chinese and japanese languages.

How does the Chinese web sites have chinese characters in there URLs'?

Hi Ceon:

ie
http://www.icithy.info/zen-cart-ceon-uri-mappingseo静态链接的自动批量生成/

This web site has chinese characters in its URL?

Does the transliteration of the chinese,japanese and russian characters have any meaning or are they just arbitrary alphanumeric characters?

Hi
I am using facebook like plugin and the like button is connected to the URI so if the URI changes like button would reset to zero

with that being said there is a problem.. once I add an item to cart and from cart I click on the item to go back to the item page - there is "?products_id=(productID:ZenID" attached to the end of the URI

is there a fix for this?

Hi Ceon,
Now that I have URI mapping installed and working there is one problem I have.

If I enter an invalid URI instead of getting a 404 error page it just redirects tot he index. I have tried manually mapping page_not_found but that doesn't seem to be working.

I definitely don't want 404s to just be redirected to the index.

cheers,

Reb

using version 4.0.3 on zc 1.3.9h