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OSCommerce SE Friendly URLS?

Is it easy enough?

         

XtendScott

5:01 am on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have heard many good things about OSCommerce but want to be SE friendly. I have heard there are contributions to make this possible. What exactly are contributions and is there a pretty easy one?

I am not PHP fluent so I am looking to learn but need a fairly simple option to start.

WibbleWobble

10:21 am on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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osC does have an internal friendly URLs re-write (at least as of MS2) but its experimental, and probably doesn't work without a rewrite rule or two, which I don't remember there being.

Contributions are additions to the package made by users to enhance certain features - kind of open source patches, if you will. Searching the oscommerce contributions for SEF Link Transformer ought to root out the most widely used rewrite functions, though it does stop gzip compression functionality, which is a trade off.

osCommerce is generally reasonably friendly URL wise anyway, with products usually listed as product_info.php?products_id=### which is just one query variable. They can get more complex, but its almost never more than 2 variables.