Magento

I coded my own method and now the product pages always point to the original URL...there still might be some bugs, but i will fix that (if any).

let me know if im right: http://www.dogbedmall.com/magento/dog-beds/extra-small-dog-beds

most of the items on this site are in 5 or more different categories, but the product pages all point to the orignal URL.

Any thoughts would be great..

found a bug...hmmmmmm...almost there ill figure it out...i was so excited sorry folks…

FIXED! I think it works perfect now!

I told the script to always re-direct to the original URL, so no matter now many items u add to whatever amount of categories it will always go to the original url of the product.

new url is http://www.dogbedmall.com/shop

nice work...any plans to share the changes with the peanut gallery?

I’m also curious...as I’m moving into some SEO work.  Post your methods if you can Conyx. Thanks!

You only need to edit “list.phtml" inside “catalog” > “product” folder

edit the bold href(link) part, which is the image link (note: theis is not the modified line):

<a href=”<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>” title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">

edit the bold href(link) part, which is the product link (note: theis is not the modified line):

<a href=”<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>” title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName())?></a>

If you guys cant solve it PM me, im pointing you in the right direction so you should be able to solve it.

i to would like this mod, let me know if you are going to share it with us

NOTE: The code I posted doesn’t fix the problem, I stated somewhere in the post that this is not the code fix, but the spot you modify to fix the url issue (thats were I made my modification and it works).

I am going to release the code, but once it’s determined its the best approach.

Conyx Group - 15 May 2008 10:47 AM

You only need to edit “list.phtml" inside “catalog” > “product” folder

edit the bold href(link) part, which is the image link (note: theis is not the modified line):

<a href=”<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>” title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>">

edit the bold href(link) part, which is the product link (note: theis is not the modified line):

<a href=”<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>” title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?>"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName())?></a>

If you guys cant solve it PM me, im pointing you in the right direction so you should be able to solve it.

Here is what I did to get this to work.

The place he has bolded I replaced with this:

<?php echo $this->getBaseUrl() . $_product->getUrlKey() . '.html' ?>

I know there is a field in the db that stores the url key with the .html on the end, but I have not figured out how to make a call to get that yet, but this works great for me for now.

had the same approach but as you notice you have to cheat the system with the .html inclusion (which works so its fine), but i do think there is a more efficient way (cleaner I should say).

But get job on figuring it out!!!! Wasnt so hard at all!

I mean great* on figuring it out!!!!

This is pretty limited. There are tons of files and pages that may link to your product. Make sure you go through all of your pages to replace the old code with the new.

Yes you are right - cause of the internal link structure you also have to replace the code in upsell.phtml, crossell.phtl and related.phtml.

How are you dealing with the main category - is it the first one the product linked to? I didn’t see any possibility to assign a main category.

They are not dealing with the main category at all. The way they are doing it is basically disabling category rewrites all together. You do not have http://www.yoursite.com/maincategory/product.html - its just http://www.yoursite.com/product.html

Also, I went deep into one of the Url.php files (handles rewrites) and found the getProductUrl function. That function is called any time you link to a product, so you can simply change that function.