Browsing to a product the right way.

[drakonan]

Is there a way I can make a link to go to a certain product based on item number?

 

 

in essence: a link to a new function called item_number.php/123-1110

 

or maybe somehow using built in osC func?

[bluepony]

You mean like this:

 

item_number.php?product_id=123-1110

 

Then in item_number.php you would use:

$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']

to return 123-1110

[drakonan]

Ok, yes that's what i want except for the search engines i gotta turn the ? and = into / (so it gets crawled)

 

Are you familiar with that? Have you done that before?

[rseigel]

Search engines can handle the ? just fine. They've been able to for years now.

[drakonan]

I don't think all of them can rseigel. I know Google has been able to for quite some time. It also appears that pages marked as "dynamic" get a reduced ranking or something because before I changed that setting site wide none (but the first) of my pages were crawled. Now ~400 are (soon to be more I speculate)

[stevel]

Most search engines, including Google, have no trouble with queries such as the product pages osCommerce creates, as long as there is a hard link to it somewhere that it can see. This will happen by default (category pages are on every page, product pages linked off that.

 

Don't make it harder than it is.