SEO mod - email a friend not working

[seymourjames +]

It should not fail because if you type a url of this form directly into your browser you will see the listing in its natural php form. The point is that this listing format is not being converted by your .htaccess rewrite statement and seo module.

http://www.yourdomain.com/viewlisting.php?view=41

In several files the overwrite does not work in the way you want it to so Eric is suggesting removing that line in your .htaccess file.

PM me and I can talk more with you about that and all the changes needed to get search engine friendly urls as it is too long winded here.

[philoo +]

Nothing new about this problem ?
It makes also the same for me

[seymourjames +]

You can generate a php formatted url or an html one. The former should always work. However, if you want an html one to be created, you should test for the seo module and make sure you have the correct format defined for a viewlisting url in your .htaccess file. Yo cqn find this test for thee SEO module in several places in the 68C package. Just do the same.

If you are using one of the premium templates from TemplateCodes.com then we use listings in this form to avoid virtual directories being created by the use of the / instead of a bar - for example.

RewriteRule ^listing-([0-9]+)-([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)\.html$ viewlisting.php?view=$1 [NC]

[juven14 +]

If you have the developer version this can be fixed in friendmail.php

Open friendmail.php and find:

PHP Code:

$rs=$Listings->getListingById($listingid); 


Add this just below it:

PHP Code:

$seoTitle = $Listings->seoString($rs['title']); 


Should now look like:

PHP Code:

$rs=$Listings->getListingById($listingid);
$seoTitle = $Listings->seoString($rs['title']); 


Then find:

PHP Code:

$vars['url'] = URL."/viewlisting.php?view=".$listingid; 


And replace this line with:

PHP Code:

if(!defined('SEO')) {
    $vars['url'] = URL."/viewlisting.php?view=".$listingid;
} else {
    $vars['url'] = URL . '/listing/' . (int)$rs['id'] . '/' . $seoTitle . '.html';
} 


This should correct the issue, I haven't tested this but it should work.

[seymourjames +]

Do make that change to the .htaccess and use a bar - in John's code as opposed to a / if you are using a premium template from Templatecodes.com .

It depends upon whether you are using the default template where /'s are used or bars - which are used in our SEO optimised template.