Guest Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 File Name :: URLsiteCat Author :: sculptex Category :: Major Description URLsiteCat v0.01 Cubecart Mod ----------------------------- TITLE - URLsiteCat DESCRIPTION - Search Engine Friendly URL generation system for Cubecart COMPATIBILTY - Cubecart v 2.0.x DATE - 15 July 2005 AUTHOR - Sculptex WEBSITE - www.sculptex.co.uk CONTACT - [email protected] DETAIL Search Engine Friendly URL generation system for CubeCart One of the problems with using such a flexible shopping cart system such as cubecart is that the product codes etc. passed as parameters with the URL. e.g. www.yoursite.com/index.php?cat_id=6 www.yoursite.com/view_product.php?product=XYZ1 Although recent progress has been made by some search engines in indexing and ranking these 'dynamic' pages, they are generally not ranked as highly as static pages. How does URLsiteCat work? This mod generates a unique page for each category and product. These pages can then easily be directly linked to and should be indexed much better by search engines. Take the above examples. www.yoursite.com/index.php?cat_id=6 would become www.yoursite.com/viewcat_6.php www.yoursite.com/view_product.php?product=XYZ1 would become www.yoursite.com/viewprod_XYZ1.php FREE VERSION AVAILABLE Yes, we are offering a free (unrestricted) version of this product. All we ask is that you retain the link to this site (www.sculptex.co.uk) at the foot of each page. If you choose to purchase a license for this product, the pages will be generated without the link being included. You will also receive priority support in the case of any technical queries. Additionally, any feature/enhancement requests will be considered for future releases. INSTALLATION OVERVIEW 1) Backup your cart before installation. this means backup all the files within your cart directory AND perform a database backup. (Although the database is not modified in this version of the mod). 2) Install the enclosed urlsitecat.php file in the admin folder. 3) Add the link to this urlsitecat.php file in your admin navigation. 4) Enter the urlsitecat option you just added to your admin menu. 4a)Tick the option to generate the files. 4b)Enter your ftp details. 4c)Click the generate button to generate the necessary URLs. Your files should now have been generated. Try www.yoursite.com/viewcat.php. This should show the top level category. 5) When you are happy that this has worked successfully, you need to create links to these generated pages from your main cart. 5a) This can be as simple as adding a link in your welcome message such as Click <a href="viewcat.php">here</a> to browse all our products and categories. 5b) If you like, you can change the other links around your cart to go to these friendly urls as follows; more detailed examples follow in the CHANGES section. 5b.i) In all the files in your base cart directory, search for instances of index.php?cat_id=$XX and replace with viewcat_$XX.php (ensuring that the $XX in the first instance is carried over to the second instance.) 5b.ii) In all the files in your base cart directory, search for instances of view_product.php?product==$XX and replace with viewprod_$XX.php (ensuring that the $XX in the first instance is carried over to the second instance.) FILES ----- COPY/UPLOAD to admin folder urlsitecat.php SQL UPDATE ---------- There is no sql update on this release. CHANGES ------- to make accessible from admin side menu, you will need to :- IN admin/nav.php AFTER (or a similar line of your choice) ['<?echo$la_stats_title;?>', '<?echo"$site_url/admin/statistics.php";?>'], INSERT ['<?echo"URLsiteCat";?>', '<?echo"$site_url/admin/urlsitecat.php";?>'], IN index.php cat_navi.php REPLACE all instances of index.php?cat_id=$cat_id_list&catname='$category' WITH viewcat_$cat_id_list.php IN index.php sale_cat.php search.php spotlight.php tellafriend.php view_order.php view_product.php REPLACE all instances of view_product.php?product=$product WITH viewprod_$product.php IN popular_prod.php REPLACE all instances of view_product.php?product=$pop_product WITH viewprod_$pop_product.php IN sale.php REPLACE all instances of view_product.php?product=$sale_product WITH viewprod_$sale_product.php View File Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Sweet will be trying his out 2nite will inform u on results :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 forgot to mention a couple of things. 1) I also included the documents in the process. so you can link to viewdoc_XX.php like the categories for example. The changes for this would be find all view_doc.php?view_doc=XX (information.php I think) and replace with viewdoc_XX.php etc. 2) Each time you add products or categories (or documents for that matter) you should run step 4 again. It will generate all the required files again. Deleted products/categories/documets are not deleted automatically (on this release) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 :ninja: I have installed this on my test site on local server and worked like a charm well done that man excellent mod. Couple of things tho..... would be better if updated when you add/delete product/category or document showed the cat name/product name or document name just a thought my 2 cents but never the less splendid mod and will be using on my live stores shortly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 I have installed this on my test site on local server and worked like a charm well done that man excellent mod. Thanks m8! Couple of things tho..... would be better if updated when you add/delete product/category or document will look to modularize/functionize my code so that it can be called at the appropriate juncture in add product, add category etc. showed the cat name/product name or document name In each individual URL? Like I mentioned, there is a problem trying to include the product title for example in the url as it can contain special characters etc. I think the way to do this would be to add another field to each product like urlsafe_prodname or similar. Once this is done, a small mod could then have it included as the page title etc. just a thought my 2 cents but never the less splendid mod and will be using on my live stores shortly thanks m8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 In each individual URL? Like I mentioned, there is a problem trying to include the product title for example in the url as it can contain special characters etc. I think the way to do this would be to add another field to each product like urlsafe_prodname or similar. Once this is done, a small mod could then have it included as the page title etc. How do you mean special characters i dont see the point in someone addind special characters to a product title espically if they going for rankings ??? Hmmm i will take a look and c if i can somehow make this work if i can do you want the code to include in your otherwise splendid mod :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arudgick Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 does this mod work with the latest version of cubecart? v3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 COMPATIBILTY - Cubecart v 2.0.x :rolly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 LOL. 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Product site anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 yes, obviously doesn't like the slash in the filename. should work if you change that product code. I could implement something that would substitute the illegal characters for legal ones, but then there would be a danger of having duplicates (if the slash was changed to an underscore and a similar product but with an underscore already existed). Realistically, to get the best out of this or similar mods, you are gonna have to make some small sacrifices in order to get the best out of it, and changing a product code seems a small price to pay. Something that would circumvent this situation is if each product has an extra field that you nter a unique filename/url friendly code in that will act as the filename which has already been mentioned, but it will then be a lot of maintenance, so I don't know whats best. In any case, next release needs to have these files added automatically for each product.category/document addition and I think I will also add a checking option to highlight any missing files for products/categories/docs etc. Thanks for the feedback! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Hey mate have you considered making a separate version for this as well? Like one that just creates quick categories. Ie for my site I'd edit the code and do it myselffffffffff but if you did it you'd have more mods in your name Cheers eitherway man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest twisted Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Geez. You couldn;t have posted just the error message line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 lol sorry bro. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Hey mate have you considered making a separate version for this as well? Like one that just creates quick categories. Ie for my site I'd edit the code and do it myselffffffffff but if you did it you'd have more mods in your name Cheers eitherway man. any optional features I introduce will be added to this release. I don't see the point of bumping up my contributions. I doubt I will be doing much more work on this in the school holidays. I am also giving it a while to assess how my search engine rankings imporve to see how effective the whole system is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 im installing this for someone.. anyone have any tips on the auto ftp settings... as i am getting nothing but errors its in the main directory of the ftp.. do i put / or just leave it.. also.. i tried both, and still getting errors.. oh, and just a thought on my part.. doesnt installing this mod completely defeat the perpose of a dynamic website.. there are easier ways to get the same affect.. Tony~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 the ftp settings are required each time, as files are updated in the main directory and obviously the permissions in that directory obviously do not allow file writes. you could say that it defeats the object of having a dynamic web site, but unfortunately as search engines prefer seemingly static pages, we must do our best to accomodate them as best as we can in order to get maximum spider exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 okay, the current state of this is... I have not had much feedback and have not developed this much futher, but while there is a lack of another cc2 version of this type of mod, I am still looking to develop this. Things to address; not having to keep entering ftp details when an update is performed having products updated automatically when added/deleted include title mod or similar include php session killer any comments welcome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 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 http://www.batterydoctor.com.au/store/RC3600HV.htm This means there is a page of direct, SE friendly product url`s to spider which can be linked from the home page, or any pages you like as well, directly to a new bunch of static pages. Unsure how google for instance might look at duplicate pages however. Maybe this is a similar concept as the friendly url mod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Thanks for the reply 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?My mod generates a static PHP page equivalent of each dynamic page in the cart - products, categories and documents. 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.I agree. My sites' dynamic pages are indexed in the popular search engines but it is generally accepted that dynamic pages are indexed better/given a higher natural search ranking? 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?See above, they are not ideal. 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]As I mentioned in my previous post, I think that would help, too. 3 Dynamic page generation verses static.See 1 4 Importance of Site Map generation / Site content / Inbound links / Meta tagging / Keywords / etc etc ….etcEverything helps! A sitemap would be good, but lets get the static pages generated first. 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.I think there is a danger that current dynamic page rankings would slip when you switched to static, but the sooner the better if you are in for the long haul. 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 http://www.batterydoctor.com.au/store/view...roduct=RC3600HV becomes something like http://www.batterydoctor.com.au/store/RC3600HV.htm This means there is a page of direct, SE friendly product url`s to spider which can be linked from the home page, or any pages you like as well, directly to a new bunch of static pages. Unsure how google for instance might look at duplicate pages however. Maybe this is a similar concept as the friendly url mod?That is my mod except I do not generate html pages. that would be a nightmare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 I can't seem to get this mod to work. Is there anybody out there willing to fix my files for a small fee? When I go to run the sitecat, I get error messages like; Warning: fopen(/home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/tmp/tmpcatX): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 119 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 121 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 122 Warning: fopen(/home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/tmp/tmpcatQ): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 126 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 128 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 129 Warning: fopen(/home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/tmp/tmpprodX): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 133 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 135 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 136 Warning: fopen(/home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/tmp/tmpprodQ): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pmcnealy/public_html/sport/admin/urlsitecat.php on line 140 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 you need to create a tmp folder off the base directory of your cart (eg. sport/tmp) and assign it full permissions (eg chmod 777). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 I did this and the mod creates a catalog but my site still doesn't work when I click on the individual products. All I get is a "page cannot be displayed" message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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