[Xshop-developer] search friendly

[Mitchell S. <ms...@fe...>]

Here's what I've done on my test site to make it search engine friendly:

http://shop.sheean.com/xshop/main/shop/browse/category_id=3D93317ae14e362=
c9c2f0445a134ee5ced

Steps to switching from "?page=3Dshop.browse&" to =
"/main/shop/browse/..."

1) in your xshop webroot edit or create a .htaccess file with the =
following
<Files main>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

This tells apache to parse anything called in a url as main as if it =
were a .php file with a .php extension.=20

2) Link or copy your main file to main in your xshop folder=20
# ln -s index.php main
Now when you call http://www.domain.com/main/ it will play the index.php =
file. Now to step 3

3) Enter some url parsing into your main script to separate parameters =
from between the incoming forward slashes that you will now use for =
urls.=20

// get variables from the page uri
$url_array=3Dexplode("/",$REQUEST_URI);  //BREAK UP THE URL PATH  USING =
'/' as delimiter
$main =3D $url_array[1];
$page =3D $url_array[2] . "/" . $url_array[3];

The first line breaks up the incoming url with a slash as delimiter =
putting each element into array. We call domain.com/main/ in the url now =
so $main will be the first in the array. Not being used but it's there =
for illustration. We then take element 2 and 3 and put them back =
together with a slash in the middle setting that to the $page variable =
the way xshop likes it.=20

I don't know if this will work with the whole site bit it may be worth =
exploring.=20

http://shop.sheean.com/xshop/main/shop/browse/category_id=3D93317ae14e362=
c9c2f0445a134ee5ced

The above will set $page =3D shop/browse other variables come thru so =
far.

~mds