Chemo's Ultimate URL's

For some reason this contribution always broke my site. I tried first with a new install copying the files; than semi-automatic with another install. It seems that the only option left is to make it manual. I did this, however there is nothing that looks like this:

(instruction2)
Open your Zen Cart file includes/application_top.php and find the following code around line 355:

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $template_dir_select . $_SESSION['language'] . '.php');

// include the extra language translations
include(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'extra_definitions.php');

Could somebody please help me? Maybe there is a problem with this contribution and the latest version of ZenCart? I'll appreciate your help/emails/posts.

Thank you,
Greg

The only real problem with Magic SEO urls is that they force you to have a link to their website in your webpage. For me that isn't very professional as I don't want links to other peoples website on my ecommerce site.

If they would give the option to remove the link it would be great.

DanDaMan:

The only real problem with Magic SEO urls is that they force you to have a link to their website in your webpage. For me that isn't very professional as I don't want links to other peoples website on my ecommerce site.

If they would give the option to remove the link it would be great.

This is simply NOT true! They do not force you to as you can see on our site (from my signature) we do not have a linkback to them. Just make sure you tell them you don't want a link to their site. It's that simple!

I did tell them and they refused to remove it and gave me a refund instead.

I tried to explain I did not want a footer link and they just said they had wasted too much time helping me and wouldn't do it.

How strange?

I stand corrected. Magic SEO Urls does now offer the option to not have a footer link - you have to ask them apparently.

Considering this, it's the best solution for Zencart and does work flawlessly.

I've been reading this thread for many months and people are still trying to figure out hot to setup this great MOD; I could not do it either.

I think you should wait till next release, there has not been a good solution yet for the current version.

I'm still waiting.

Thanks guys for the great work and support.

I Am not an Export

But getting the Magic SEO and installed for abut month or so, i see no decrees in traffic, actually THE opposite, I got my ranking up last week , so it mean it is not doing any bad to my web site

And the support and service from Magic SEO, are above what I accepted.

I don't mean to jump omn the band wagon but I also broke down and bought Magic SEO for one of my domains. I've been able to get Chemo's to work on some domains but not others (all on the same host and server).

The product simply works and I got very good support via email while installing it. Turned out to be a simple misunderstanding on my part.

I've much rather install a free mod than pay for one but I had spent way too much time trouble shooting and still couldn't get it to work. I do hope they continue to develop it and will try it again.

jeking:

I don't mean to jump omn the band wagon but I also broke down and bought Magic SEO for one of my domains. I've been able to get Chemo's to work on some domains but not others (all on the same host and server).

The product simply works and I got very good support via email while installing it. Turned out to be a simple misunderstanding on my part.

I've much rather install a free mod than pay for one but I had spent way too much time trouble shooting and still couldn't get it to work. I do hope they continue to develop it and will try it again.

Well, I am very happy with Magic SEO URL. Like you rightly said the amount of time spent to get this beta to work is actually more expensive than the cost of magic seo url.

As one of the people who funded this beta version, we actually contributed money to get this done but got a "beta" product. There were some that actually donated more money to this project than the cost of magic seo url and got nothing for it.

The ultimate seo url is actually not completely free because it was funded by a few us, we just didn't get a production ready mod for our contribution.

It's a no brainer, the benefit far outweigh the cost of magic seo url.

Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with Magic SEO company...I am just a happy customer of theirs.

motti:

I Am not an Export

But getting the Magic SEO and installed for abut month or so, i see no decrees in traffic, actually THE opposite, I got my ranking up last week , so it mean it is not doing any bad to my web site

And the support and service from Magic SEO, are above what I accepted.

Page rank is calculated quarterly by Google. My page rank also went up by 2 and I do not use any SEO URLs at all. I have yet to find any proof that they actually work. I understand it allows you to put keywords in your URLs, but you should be using your keywords in your links anyways.

I've written far more useful modules without getting a dime in return and here Magic SEO URLs is doing quite well from the community. Perhaps I would be better off going commercial as well...

numinix:

Page rank is calculated quarterly by Google. My page rank also went up by 2 and I do not use any SEO URLs at all. I have yet to find any proof that they actually work. I understand it allows you to put keywords in your URLs, but you should be using your keywords in your links anyways.

I've written far more useful modules without getting a dime in return and here Magic SEO URLs is doing quite well from the community. Perhaps I would be better off going commercial as well...

There would be nothing wrong with providing commercial mods if you so desired. You have a lot of great mods. Easy Populate Advanced is another great mod that has via off from the free edition to provide more functionality packed into the EPA for $65 and definitely works great and the support is superb.

If for no other reason but to display nicely formatted url without strings, I will still purchase Magic SEO URL. It hasn't make much difference with Google but our ranking in both Yahoo and MSN is going up.

numinix:

Page rank is calculated quarterly by Google.
PageRank is calculated continually by Google. It is just the toolbar display that it is only update once every 3-4 months and that is mainly for entertainment purposes.

numinix:

My page rank also went up by 2 and I do not use any SEO URLs at all. I have yet to find any proof that they actually work.
As far as I can tell it makes no difference at all to Google. Maybe a couple of years ago it did but now it is just a myth that people cling to.

numinix:

I understand it allows you to put keywords in your URLs, but you should be using your keywords in your links anyways.
Appropriate keywords in the anchor text is important.

Regards,
Christian.

CJPinder:

As far as I can tell it makes no difference at all to Google. Maybe a couple of years ago it did but now it is just a myth that people cling to.

I agree. And so do the developers of Zen Cart. But, what about the other search engines like MSN and Yahoo that Blessisaacola referred to? I would think they have switched to using content as their basis for keywords as well...?

I went with it because it made the url useful. Useful in a variety or reports and links and other ways. I don't believe it will have any effect on our rankings.

It seems Seo Urls 3.0.0-beta1 is not compatible with PHP5. My hosting company recently switched to PHP5 and SEO URLs stopped working. The main page of the store still works but when I click on a product it gives me a blank page with the following error: "No input file specified."

Temporary solution:
In order to continue to work you should specify your php scripts to be parsed by PHP4. You should add the following line to .htaccess:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php
```I posted the bug here: <http://bugs.smarterwebdev.com/view_bug.php?bug_id=32>

macson:

i have resolve the problem.
just modify the table sort for left join.

SELECT c.categories_id as id, c.parent_id, cd.categories_name as cName, cd2.categories_name as pName
FROM ".TABLE_CATEGORIES." c,
".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION." cd
LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION." cd2
ON c.parent_id=cd2.categories_id AND cd2.language_id='".(int)$this->languages_id."'
WHERE c.categories_id=cd.categories_id
AND cd.language_id='".(int)$this->languages_id."'";

change to --->
"SELECT c.categories_id as id, c.parent_id, cd.categories_name as cName, cd2.categories_name as pName
FROM
".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION." cd,
".TABLE_CATEGORIES." c
LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION." cd2
ON c.parent_id=cd2.categories_id AND cd2.language_id='".(int)$this->languages_id."'
WHERE c.categories_id=cd.categories_id
AND cd.language_id='".(int)$this->languages_id."'";

This appears to have fixed my problem .... even if I disabled SEO it still didn't work. May be an issue with a move to php 5.2.4 or more likely a MySQL upgrade issue to 5.0.27

Thank you for posting this fix...

Shrimp-Gumbo

BlessIsaacola:

Kelvyn,
Thanks for the summary and yes that reflects basically what happened. I am with you that Dreamscape's health if of great importance. I just which he would have done a better job of communicating before abandoning the project (especially given how the project was initiated with fundable).

Like, you we were experiencing great improvement with google and more importantly msn and yahoo with seo url but the two issues relating to attributes and ' in product name definitely stopped us from using it. We have 1,000s products with attributes and google started indexing wrong urls which didn't help our situation. Too many 404 errors.

Magic SEO works fine and I talked with them. There are some issues for our situation that prevented us from using i.e. it doesn't support more than 3 category levels and I believe there is an issue with how it handles http versus https for the same domain.

It's very promising and they are going to address most limitations in January 2008.

I am using Ultimate_SEL_URLs_v2.103 with ZC 1.3.7 and I don't have any problems with items with attributes (length or size) and no problems with ( ' or " or -) in the product name or category name.... they are taken out and it works fine for me.

.... I did have to make the one fix (a few post above) once I moved to an upgraded server ...

Shrimp-Gumbo

Ronson:

It seems Seo Urls 3.0.0-beta1 is not compatible with PHP5. My hosting company recently switched to PHP5 and SEO URLs stopped working. The main page of the store still works but when I click on a product it gives me a blank page with the following error: "No input file specified."

Temporary solution:
In order to continue to work you should specify your php scripts to be parsed by PHP4. You should add the following line to .htaccess:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php

Sorry, but I have to report that Version 3.0.0-beta 1 **IS** compatible with php5. My store runs with php5 (but I *am* still running MySQL4), and the mod works just fine. See it for yourself [here](http://www.ho-hose.net).

blag:

Sorry, but I have to report that Version 3.0.0-beta 1 IS compatible with php5. My store runs with php5 (but I am still running MySQL4), and the mod works just fine. See it for yourself here.

I've tested this with two different installations of Zen Cart.
Here is more tech info:

Software
Zen Cart 1.3.7.1 + SEO Urls 3.0.0-beta 1 (plus bugfixes)

Database
MySQL 5.0.45

PHP info
PHP Version 5.2.4

System Linux server304.com 2.6.21.3-grsec #2 SMP Wed Jun 6 18:27:48 EEST 2007 i686

Build Date Oct 11 2007 04:03:43

Configure Command ./configure --enable-discard-path --with-gettext --enable-exif --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-magic-quotes --with-curl --with-db --enable-ftp --with-gd --with-zlib --with-t1lib=/usr/local --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-imap=/usr/local --with-imap-ssl --with-mhash=/usr/local --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql5 --with-ldap --enable-mbstring --enable-memory-limit --enable-inline-optimization --with-iconv --enable-pcntl --with-pspell --with-bz2 --enable-sockets --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-xsl --with-config-file-path=.:/etc --enable-soap --with-mysqli --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql5

Server API CGI

Virtual Directory Support disabled

Configuration File (php.ini) Path .:/etc

Loaded Configuration File /etc/php.ini

PHP API 20041225

PHP Extension 20060613

Zend Extension 220060519

Debug Build no

Thread Safety disabled

Zend Memory Manager enabled

IPv6 Support enabled

Registered PHP Streams php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.bzip2, compress.zlib, https, ftps

Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls

Registered Stream Filters string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert., consumed, convert.iconv., bzip2., zlib.

Ronson:

I've tested this with two different installations of Zen Cart.
Here is more tech info:

Software
Zen Cart 1.3.7.1 + SEO Urls 3.0.0-beta 1 (plus bugfixes)

Database
MySQL 5.0.45

PHP info
PHP Version 5.2.4

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Hi. As I said in my reply, it is not PHP5 that is the culprit, but I am unable to comment as to whether it is the combination of PHP5 and MySQL5 that is causing your problems, because I would need to transfer my files to a different server to be able to test this, with inevitable, unjustifiable, disruption.

Sorry to say that most problems with mods are due to problems with the installation. Sometimes FTP software doesn't upload every file and so on... Have you applied all the 'fixes/patches' to the uploads? If not, go back to about post 1201 or so in this thread, where you will find an attachment to a post by me. The attachment includes the 'patched/fixed' files for this mod.

Are you absolutely sure that you have followed the instructions in the PDF manual? Have you updated/modified you .htaccess file? and so on...