I often work on sites that have dimensions in the product name: 1-1/4" diameter or 1-1/2" diameter and, as is known, a forward slash does not work with the SEO friendly URL feature. Options are limited to removing the dimension or making it 1.25" diameter or 1.5" diameter. However, people are use to seeing the fraction 1/4 or 1/2 and not a decimal fraction. And eliminating the dimension altogether makes a quick comparison of the product by product name for the site visitor near impossible.

It would be nice to have a field in addition to the pName field, like seoName, where you enter a SEO URL friendly name for the SEO friendly URL feature, one where you can eliminate any illegal or questionable characters. Then the cart would have a simple if statement where if seoName=!"", SEO URL=seoName, else SEO URL=pName (you get the point).

In the end, the pName can remain customer (and order invoice) friendly and the seoName would be URL friendly.

Marshall
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Hi Marshall,
You can use the “Has Static URL” field to overcome that problem; any Prod Name containing dash, full stop, decimal point, forward slash. For example, just type in ...

Has Static URL: steel tube one and one quarter inch diameter 150cm length

$detlinkspacechar="-"; adds the dashes in that URL.

Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers all permitted in Has Static URL

The <title>Page Title</title> and <h1>Product Name</h1> can then remain as entered with any special characters you like:

Prod Name: Steel Tube 1-1/4” diameter, 1.5 metre length

Gary

I presume you still have to do this?

$seodetailurls=TRUE;
$detlinkspacechar="-";
$seourlsthrow301=TRUE;

And

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) proddetail.php?prod=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
</IfModule>

Marshall
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Yes, together with the other search engine friendly URL advice given on the ECT Help page here >>

Gary

Thanks Gary. Much appreciated.

Marshall
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