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Sure, Sculptex, very happy to make some comments…
I`m sure many on this forum are very thankful for your Cube Cart contributions and scripts.
As we are aware, there are thousands of CC2 sites out there that can use solid SE friendly mods of any kind. I know we are certainly interested! Not quite sure what the friendly url mod does to the existing pages or does it generate extra static pages, in addition to the cart as it is?
There seems to be different opinions and experiences on this forum as to whether CC2 (or v 3 for that matter) has some major issues when it comes to being indexed fully and properly. It is difficult to get authorative answers it seems.
The main points of discussion in terms of search engine friendliness seem to be:
1. Are the URL`s that Cube Cart 2 generates unfriendly to engines?
2 Is the following mod helpful -PHP sessions are killed if the user agent is identified as a search engine [http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index.php?showtopic=10917]
3 Dynamic page generation verses static.
4 Importance of Site Map generation / Site content / Inbound links / Meta tagging / Keywords / etc etc ….etc
At the end of the day, for us, when it comes to implementing major mods that can impact on SE results,… yes we want to improve, but we also want to be careful not to dis-advantage our current hard fought position with a mod that “works in theoryâ€. We need to understand the function of these big mods well before we implement. It would be nice to know exactly how search engines then view this mod in the real world.
This may be the same idea but...Why not just create a page of friendly url product links to static pages if static pages are better indexed than dynamic?
Could also be done by anyone manually if not too many products, but what about a script that simply converts every product page into a static html page and places them into the store folder via ftp.(this is easy to do manually ie file - save as html )
Then in another step, the url`s for all these static pages need to be generated.
Then Create a Cube Cart document page ( call it “Product links†or something) and drop the url`s in!
So...A dynamic url like
becomes something like
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We now have funds set aside for someone to produce a Cube Cart 2 version of this mod.
Our store is www.batterydoctor.com.au/store
Any takers...Maybe the author? Please feel free to quote us.
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Did someone mention a URL friendly mod?
A URL friendly mod is desperately overdue for cubecart version 2.X.
I can`t believe it hasn`t been implemented in the latest version as standard!
There is a mod for v 3 as follows...
Name Search engine friendly URLs with PHP session killer v1.0
Author Joseph Rukshan Fonseka
http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index.php?download=153
This mod seems very difficult to implement though for v2 cube carts
Is anyone modder able and willing to produce a self contained mod to do the same for CC2? Please?
Is anyone working on this specifically?
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Some feedback on this one for you...
Gave it a go on our site and visually it looks great and is much easier for the customer to understand for sure. However i had no luck getting it to actually submit the data entered. The buttons seem to not respond or transmit the data entered into the fields. Page error was the result.
This one is worth working on though as it is a great enhancement to the registration process. It may even save some lost sales!
Thanks Twisted.
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This is a nice little addition that works perfectly for us thankyou for your work!
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Got it working in Control Panel by altering the post action script!
This is what i did.
find the following in evil homers revised code
<form method=\"post\" action=\"index.php\">
CHANGE TO
<form method=\"post\" action=\"control_panel.php\">
See how that goes
Thanks Evil Homer for your work on this script!
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Hi Evil Homer,
Sorry i am a little confused now...does the mod need to be in register.php or control_panel?
I see a problem..
The first instruction of your mod was to open control_panel .....see below.....but the code you have listed to paste under was from register.php...see your code below....
"This will add a small table once a customer has registered asking them to tick a checkbox
telling you how they found your site.
first back up all files!!!!
I have put this on bottom of control panel page you may find you want it somewhere else but it looks
nice here
open control_panel.php
find
<tr bgcolor=\"$colour_1\">
<td width=\"40%\"> </td>
<td width=\"60%\"><input type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"$la_register\"><br>$la_account_form_must</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>";
}// end if !$edit
straight after paste
//*********************************************************
//start found us table
//*********************************************************
etc etc.
open control_panel.php
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Hi Evil,
Thanks for looking at that.
Just added the
echo"</FORM></td></tr>";
on to the bottm but still no email or info sorry.
Pressing the "Go" button brings me back to the index page fine.
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Hi Evil,
Thanks.
Tried the revised and then went to downloads at Cube Home and tried that version as well.
I couldn`t find the original code out of control_panel.php to paste under so that might be the problem.
This is the total file of what i have there at present. Installed on Control Panel OK.
Ta
<?php
/***************************************************************************
* File Info: control_panel.php
* Purpose: Control Panel for Customer
* Updated: 31/07/2003
****************************************************************************
* Developer: Alistar Brookbanks (Brooky.com)
* Copyright: ©2003 http://www.brooky.com
* Copyright: ©2003 http://www.cubecart.com
* This program is not "free" software and restrictions apply!
* Further Info: http://www.cubecart.com/license.php
* Contact [email protected] if any conditions are not clear.
*
* Licensees holding valid "CubeCart Licence Number" may edit
* the (powered by CubeCart) from browser title and "Powered by CubeCart"
* and "© Brooky.com" from the web page footer.
*
* This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING
* THE WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE. This and all others in the download package can only be
* redistributed with written permission from Alistair Brookbanks!
*
* The "CubeCart License" is available to purchase at
* https://secure.cubecart.com/
* For pricing please contact us via e-mail at [email protected]
***************************************************************************/
session_start();
if (!session_is_registered("valid_user"))
{
header("Location: login.php");
}
if (session_is_registered("valid_user"))
{
include("admin/config.php");
include( "admin/settings.inc.php");
include( "shoppingcart.php");
include( "header.inc.php");
$cart = new Cart;
include("subheader.inc.php");
// start border
sb("100%",$la_your_links,$colour_1,$bg_colour);
echo"<a href=\"index.php\" target=\"_self\">$la_search_home</a> > $la_your_links<br><br>
<b>$la_your_links $la_for</b> $user_name<br>";
$sql_count = "select * from ".$prefix."store_order_sum where email='$valid_user'";
$result_count = mysql_query ($sql_count);
$total_orders = mysql_num_rows($result_count);
$total_orders = number_format($total_orders);
echo"<table align=\"center\" width=\"60%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"25\" cellpadding=\"0\">
<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\">
<td><a href=\"account.php?session=$session\"><br><img src='images/your_account.gif' border='0'><br>$la_account_account</a></td>
<td><a href=\"your_orders.php?session=$session\"><img src='images/your_orders.gif' border='0'><br>$la_status_orders";
if($total_orders>0)
{
echo" ($total_orders)";
}
echo"</a></td>
</tr>
<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\">
<td><a href=\"account.php?session=$session\"><img src='images/password.gif' border='0'><br>$la_change_password</a></td>
<td><a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\"><span style='cursor:hand;' onclick='window.external.AddFavorite(location.href,document.title);'><img src='images/favorites.gif' border='0'><br>$la_status_favourite</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\">
<td><a href=\"view_cart.php?session=$session\"><img src='images/your_basket.gif' border='0'><br>$la_status_basket</a></td>
<td><a href=\"logout.php?session=$session\"><img src='images/logout.gif' border='0'><br>$la_logout</a></td>
</tr>
</table><br>";
// end border
eb($bg_colour,$colour_1);
//*********************************************************
//start found us table
//*********************************************************
if (session_is_registered("valid_user"))
{
if($ShoppingCart)
{
$session = $ShoppingCart;
}
sb("100%",$la_mod_found_tableheader,$colour_1,$bg_colour);
if (!$Submitmail) {
$select = mysql_query ("select * from ".$prefix."store_customer where email='$valid_user'");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($select);
$from_name=$row["name"];
$from_email=$row["email"];
echo"<b>$la_mod_found_header</b><br>
<form method=\"post\" action=\"index.php\">
<br>$la_mod_found_subheader<br><br>
<div align=\"left\">
<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" bordercolor=\"#111111\" width=\"400\">
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt1\" value=\"$la_mod_found_opt1\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_opt1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt2\" value=\"$la_mod_found_opt2\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_opt2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt3\" value=\"$la_mod_found_opt3\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_opt3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt4\" value=\"$la_mod_found_opt4\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_opt4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt5\" value=\"$la_mod_found_opt5\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_opt5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=\"49\"> <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"opt6\" value=\"$la_mod_found_com_opt6\"></td>
<td width=\"100%\"><b>$la_mod_found_com_opt6</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"from_name\" value=\"$from_name\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"from_email\" value=\" $from_email\">
<br><b>$la_mod_found_example</b><br />
$la_mod_found_examples<br>
<textarea name=\"Message\" cols=\"40\" rows=\"4\"></textarea><br>
<input type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" value=\"$la_go\" border=\"0\" name=\"Submitmail\">
</form>";
} else {
$subject ="$la_mod_found_tableheader";
if(empty($opt1)){$opt1= "";}else{$opt1= "$opt1\n";}
if(empty($opt2)){$opt2= "";}else{$opt2= "$opt2\n";}
if(empty($opt3)){$opt3= "";}else{$opt3= "$opt3\n";}
if(empty($opt4)){$opt4= "";}else{$opt4= "$opt4\n";}
if(empty($opt5)){$opt5= "";}else{$opt5= "$opt5\n";}
if(empty($opt6)){$opt6= "";}else{$opt6= "$opt6\n";}
$sugmail="$from_name,$from_email $la_mod_found_made \n\n$site_url/control_panel.php";
mail($site_email,$subject,"$found\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n$opt1$opt2$opt3$opt4$opt5$opt6\n$la_mod_found_message\n$Message","From: $from_email");
echo "$la_mod_found_thx $from_name<hr width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">";
}
eb($bg_colour,$colour_1);}
// if no session is registered
if (!session_is_registered("valid_user"))
{
echo"";
}
//*********************************************************
//end suggestions table
//*********************************************************
include("subfooter.inc.php");
include("footer.inc.php");
}
?>
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Has anyone had success getting the customer info from the "How did you find us" form to the store email yet?
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Hi Evil Homer,
This will be a nice mod. I`ve had a go at it but haven`t got it together. The form shows up and looks nice but not receiving the info from the form via email at all. No email. Nearly there but not quite. May be my problem yet rather than the code but still looking at it.
Thanks for the effort so far.
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Easy install, Works well...Whorthwhile Mod!
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I`ve just installed this mod. You can also add Category name and product number top be displayed in the browser title bar.
This mod hopefully helps a lot with google search engine rankings.
You can view the threads at
http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index.php?showtopic=2783
Discuss Search Engine Optimizing, Stats
in Technical Help
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Why isn`t Tellafriend.php listed in that list of disallow files?