Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

kenmax:

Hi I am a new user of Ultimate SEO URLs. I install it on a Zen Cart v1.5.1 and after that when I login the admin page I can only see the "Configuration" in it and all other menus are just gone. Any ideas?
Usually indicates something not installed correctly in the admin interface -- typically during a merge. The starting point is (the same as debugging most other issues in Zen Cart) to look for any debug files...

Also scroll up when submitting a reply, and provide the information requested along with what version you installed, if it was an upgrade from a previous version, anything different from a "clean" installation of Zen Cart, etc.

bobo01:

After installing this my main page does not work anymore. I had some java script on there to slide four images and to show the cookie notice for the EU. Any ideas how to fix this?
You may want to start by describing exactly what is happening. We are unable to determine what behavior you are seeing (and feel does not work) unless you can tell us what on your main page does not work.

Also scroll up when submitting a reply, and provide the information requested along with what version you installed, if it was an upgrade from a previous version, anything different from a "clean" installation of Zen Cart, a link to your site, any debug log files, etc.

Yes I upgraded the system from 1.3.9h to 1.5.1, I tried to copy the files from Ultimate SEO one by one and after I copied general.php to admin page\includes\functions, the same problem happened. All items except "Configuration" on the menu bar was gone. Yes I think you are right, it indicates something not installed correctly in the admin interface during a merge. I am using 1.5.1 but I am still using the old admin page. I just have no idea of how to merge the old admin page with the new one. Should I just overwrite the old file with the new one?

Problem solved. I just renamed the admin folder to the original name of my admin folder after upgraded from 1.3.9h to 1.5.1 and reinstall Ultimates SEO URLs again. It work perfectly now. Thanks lhungil!

kenmax:

Problem solved. I just renamed the admin folder to the original name of my admin folder after upgraded from 1.3.9h to 1.5.1 and reinstall Ultimates SEO URLs again. It work perfectly now. Thanks lhungil!
Glad you found the problem with the installation. Another peice of the puzzle you may want to check is the admin configure.php. Thank You for reporting back!

In Zen Cart 1.5.x the admin configure.php is very different from the one from 1.3.x. The Zen Cart upgrade script will not completely update the old admin configure.php to the new admin configure.php... And consequently will break things if you later move the admin folder unless you hand edit the contents of the admin configure.php... If you have not compared your current admin configure.php to one generated by a clean Zen Cart installation, you may wish to check what has changed.

Is there a "Recommended, Step by Step, Sequential order" to follow when installing Add-ons ?

I absolutely need these addons

1. Column layout grid
2. CSS Buttons
3. Fast & Easy Checkout
4. Sales Report
5. Easy Populate
6. Ultimate Seo

When I installed my last add-on (Ultimate Seo) installation, the /includes/functions/html_output.php was overwritten and now a blank page is showing up after hitting checkout ...

I removed "Ultimate Seo" and restored the original html_output.php file but the error is still there ...

Also does anyone know if Ultimate-SEO causes any conflict with any other addon, (especially CSS-Button addon) ? Because after installing Ultimate-SEO addon, my CSS Buttons disappeared.

I read somewhere that someone merged html_output.php in the CSS-Button addon with html_output.php in Ultimate-SEO addon. Does any one know how to merge these files ?

BTW, I am using Zencart v1.5.0 with with Ultimate-SEO v2.212

I read somewhere that someone merged html_output.php in the CSS-Button addon with html_output.php in Ultimate-SEO addon. A basic rule of installing addons is to be sure that a new addon does not use files that any existing addon has created or modified. You need to check every file in the new mod's list with your existing store files to see if there is any duplication. If there is, you need to merge the two modified files. This can be a three-step process if the modifications are not simple and crystal-clearly identified:
(First save copies of all files concerned in a safe place so you have backups.)

Compare the first mod file version with the stock file version. Take notes of all differences and line numbers/context.

Compare the second mod file version with the stock file version. Take notes of all differences and line numbers/context.

Compare the first mod file version with the second mod file version. Decide on one of those to be the final copy, and put the changes from the other into that one. Add comments where appropriate so you will know what you did if you need to go back to it later. Then put the final copy back into the appropriate place in your store.

If both mods change the same line(s) in the file, you may need coding knowledge to know how to merge the functions or if they can coexist at all.

Hi gjh42, Thanks for your reply. I can edit HTML and CSS, but PHP editing is just too much for me. Can you suggest any other good SEO addon, that doesn't change any core files ? Ceon URI Mapping, Simple SEO URL, etc ?

Thanks

... Can you suggest any other good SEO addon, that doesn't change any core files ? Ceon URI Mapping, Simple SEO URL, etc ?
They all edit at least one core file and most override at least one core file.
"Ultimate SEO URLs" alters the "zen_href_link" function and adds a function called "original_zen_href_link" inside the file "html_output.php". Most of the other ones work in a similar way.

... now a blank page is showing up after hitting checkout ...
Was this a "clean" installation of Zen Cart 1.5 or an upgrade from 1.3.x? Did you have a previous version of this (or any other URL modifying module installed? Does the same problem occur with the "classic" template?

I would also highly recommend posting some short snippets of what is found in the "debug" files generated by Zen Cart. This is always a good place to start when trying to determine the cause of a "blank page". The debug files often give a very good indication of where things went wrong with the installation and may help us help you :)

... I removed "Ultimate Seo" and restored the original html_output.php file but the error is still there ...
If you ran the uninstall for this module, then removed all the new files added by this module, and undid any "merged" changes you made during the installation... There is a good chance the error could be with a different module.

I'd suspect an issue with the "checkout" module's installation... Especially as "Ultimate SEO URLs" does not alter any of Zen Cart's checkout files / functions / classes. By default "Ultimate SEO URLs" does not even change the URLs used during checkout. Hopefully we can make better guesses after you post some snippets from the "debug" files.

P.S. If this is a new store (or you are upgrading) I would highly recommend using Zen Cart 1.5.1 instead of 1.5.0. Zen Cart 1.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements. No reason to stay with 1.5.0 - as once a module is added you lose PA-DSS (unless you go through the process of getting your changed version tested and approved for compliance).

What is the latest stable version of this plugin? The version in the Plugin Download area is ultimate_seo_urls_212.

Thanks,
Gary

gxjenkins:

What is the latest stable version of this plugin?
The version posted in the plugins section of zen-cart.com. Version: 2.212 (Final). For the most part only BETA testers get access to download any BETA versions I've written of this plugin.

Not working. The shopping Cart page is not opening ...... When I click "Add to Cart" button, Page Not Found error shows up, instead of the cart page.

Also for some pages its not generating URL's correctly. Leaving empty spaces in between words.

Log file is showing this error .....

*Unable to parse URL in public_html/store/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1273
*

I am using a fresh install of Zencart v1.5.1

Ultimate SEO Version 2.212

BTW, when I disable Ultimate SEO from Admin Panel, everything works perfectly.

Never mind, Found the problem. I uploaded .htaccess file to the Root folder. Shifted it to the "Store" folder where Zencart is installed, and everything is working now. Cheers.

Rony:

Never mind, Found the problem. I uploaded .htaccess file to the Root folder. Shifted it to the "Store" folder where Zencart is installed, and everything is working now. Cheers.
Glad you were able to get everything sorted, and thank you for reporting back :)

Thanks, Although I got it working for the time being. I had to disable the CSS3-Buttons addon. I request developers of Ultimate-SEO to make it compatible with* CSS3-Button* addon, if possible. Both addons make changes to the html_output.php file which render the other addon dysfunctional.

How do i tell in the affected files which bit of code to merge into my existing files??? Is there a comment anywhere informing me where to start and finish?

Rony:

I request developers of Ultimate-SEO to make it compatible with CSS3-Button addon, if possible.
As far as I know they are compatible. Just because two modules make changes to the same file does not mean the modules are not compatible. You will just need to look through the changes each module makes, see what is different, and then merge the changes together. As they do not modify the same functions in "html_output.php", installing both modules should be relatively easy using a file comparison or merge tool.

PearceStephens:

How do i tell in the affected files which bit of code to merge into my existing files??? Is there a comment anywhere informing me where to start and finish?
Good Question. WinMerge, BeyondCompare, and a number of other tools provide a side-by-side line-by-line comparison between two files indicating where the files are different, what is different, and allowing you to "merge" the code from one side to the other. These and similar tools are the fastest way to merge changes to any core "Zen Cart" files.

I would highly recommend installing and using one of these tools if you have made ANY changes to "Zen Cart". They are definitely time savers and have many other uses ;)

Why no comment such as "START USU" / "STOP USU" in those files? For the most part the changes made by this module are very minor and consist of only one block of code (I avoid changing core files or core database tables).

The only file with extensive changes is the 1.5.x "query_factory.php". This file was modified to provide more consistent output and address some bugs. The "query_factory.php" file in the distribution under consideration for inclusion in the next "Zen Cart" release. For Zen Cart 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 you should just override the old file with the file in the distribution of this module.

Description
Generated URI's do not conform to w3c standards if categories, products, manufacturers, or other names include characters not allowed in a URI by RFC 3986 (such as Cyrillic characters). Most browsers will automatically correct the URI's without the need for this patch.

Applying this patch will cause URI's generated by "Ultimate SEO URLs" to follow RFC 3986 and encode any relevant characters. After applying the patch the affected environments will generate URI's passing W3C Validation and other modules calling zen_href_link will receive a properly formatted URI.

Affected Environments
Zen Cart installations using UTF8 and utilizing languages which contain non ISO-Latin-1 characters.

Credits
Issue reported by the.rampage.rado and a_berezin.

The Fix
Starting at line 831 in 'seo.url.php' (version 2.212) change:

		// Replace any remaining whitespace with a -
		$retval = preg_replace('/\s/', '-', $retval);

		return $this->short_name($retval); // return the short filtered name
	} # end function

with:

		// Replace any remaining whitespace with a -
		$retval = preg_replace('/\s/', '-', $retval);

		// return the short filtered and urlencoded name
		return rawurlencode($this->short_name($retval));

Notes
While this fix should work on all supported versions of Zen Cart, it has only been tested against Zen Cart 1.5.1 at this time.

lhungil:

As far as I know they are compatible. Just because two modules make changes to the same file does not mean the modules are not compatible. You will just need to look through the changes each module makes, see what is different, and then merge the changes together. As they do not modify the same functions in "html_output.php", installing both modules should be relatively easy using a file comparison or merge tool.

They modify same functions at few places ..... If you have merged these files, and both are working, please post the merged file here. It will really help us all. Plz see attached, The report created by WinMerge highlighting the same functions modified.

lhungil:

Good Question. WinMerge, BeyondCompare, and a number of other tools provide a side-by-side line-by-line comparison between two files indicating where the files are different, what is different, and allowing you to "merge" the code from one side to the other.

Plz see attached, The report created by WinMerge.

If the attached image is too small, please see this URL ..... http://imageshack.us/a/img845/8149/useo.gif

Thanks

Here is another little thing that causing a little trouble ....

For 2 of our products .... The URL's generated are like this ....

Notice the blank spaces highlighted with black underline .....

Does anyone know how to fix these blank spaces ?

Any input is highly appreciated.

Thanks