Comments on: X-Cart Friendly Urls Not So Friendly http://www.devtrench.com/x-cart-friendly-urls-not-so-friendly/ Web Development from the Front Lines Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anna http://www.devtrench.com/x-cart-friendly-urls-not-so-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-58030 Anna Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:41:21 +0000 http://www.devtrench.com/?p=391#comment-58030 >It kind of freaks me out when a customer rep responds back so quickly over the interwebs, but that’s the internet. :-) >At any rate, I’m glad you corrected me and that it is possible, but still not very friendly for me. I have a store of 2000+ products so entering the full path on each product is not really something I’m going to do. I know I can figure out how to do this programmatically, but what a pain. Friendly urls needs a rewrite in xcart to be friendly for the user. It is possible to import information from CSV file into the store (category and product data including clean URLs), that really saves time, especially for large amount of products. Also you are correct, by adjusting the software code URLs structure can be changed. And these changes should not that difficult for programmers. Anyway, James, your feedback about the software is important, customers' opinions are always useful. >It kind of freaks me out when a customer rep responds back so quickly over the interwebs, but that’s the internet.

:-)

>At any rate, I’m glad you corrected me and that it is possible, but still not very friendly for me. I have a store of 2000+ products so entering the full path on each product is not really something I’m going to do. I know I can figure out how to do this programmatically, but what a pain. Friendly urls needs a rewrite in xcart to be friendly for the user.

It is possible to import information from CSV file into the store (category and product data including clean URLs), that really saves time, especially for large amount of products.

Also you are correct, by adjusting the software code URLs structure can be changed. And these changes should not that difficult for programmers.

Anyway, James, your feedback about the software is important, customers’ opinions are always useful.

]]> By: James Ehly http://www.devtrench.com/x-cart-friendly-urls-not-so-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-58029 James Ehly Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:05:03 +0000 http://www.devtrench.com/?p=391#comment-58029 It kind of freaks me out when a customer rep responds back so quickly over the interwebs, but that's the internet. At any rate, I'm glad you corrected me and that it is possible, but still not very friendly for me. I have a store of 2000+ products so entering the full path on each product is not really something I'm going to do. I know I can figure out how to do this programmatically, but what a pain. Friendly urls needs a rewrite in xcart to be friendly for the user. It kind of freaks me out when a customer rep responds back so quickly over the interwebs, but that’s the internet. At any rate, I’m glad you corrected me and that it is possible, but still not very friendly for me. I have a store of 2000+ products so entering the full path on each product is not really something I’m going to do. I know I can figure out how to do this programmatically, but what a pain. Friendly urls needs a rewrite in xcart to be friendly for the user.

]]> By: Anna http://www.devtrench.com/x-cart-friendly-urls-not-so-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-58024 Anna Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:26:33 +0000 http://www.devtrench.com/?p=391#comment-58024 James, in X-Cart you can easily specify widgets/super-widgets/awesome-widget-25 URL address for a product, you just need to type in this value into 'Clean URL' field on a product management page in admin section. Actually, you can use slashes in URL values, thus you can specify all required category levels in product URL address. As a result URL address for a widget product will look like www.yourstore.com/store/widgets/super-widgets/awesome-widget-25.html By the way, more details about this functionality in X-Cart can be found in the <a href="http://www.x-cart.com/xcart_manual/online/?defining_clean_url_values.htm" rel="nofollow"> . I hope this information will help. James, in X-Cart you can easily specify widgets/super-widgets/awesome-widget-25 URL address for a product, you just need to type in this value into ‘Clean URL’ field on a product management page in admin section. Actually, you can use slashes in URL values, thus you can specify all required category levels in product URL address. As a result URL address for a widget product will look like
http://www.yourstore.com/store/widgets/super-widgets/awesome-widget-25.html

By the way, more details about this functionality in X-Cart can be found in the .

I hope this information will help.

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