How to create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart? - php

Question

I would like http://example.com/index.php?route=checkout/cart to be display as http://example.com/cart. A few days ago I found an answer in StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/q/7578055/1236271). And I made the necessary changes in the seo_url file and also updated the database but still, it's not working for me. Is there any mistake with my seo_url file? This is my seo_url.php file.
<?php
class ControllerCommonSeoUrl extends Controller {
public function index() {
// Add rewrite to url class
if ($this->config->get('config_seo_url')) {
$this->url->addRewrite($this);
}
// Decode URL
if (isset($this->request->get['_route_'])) {
$parts = explode('/', $this->request->get['_route_']);
foreach ($parts as $part) {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE keyword = '" . $this->db->escape($part) . "'");
if ($query->num_rows) {
$url = explode('=', $query->row['query']);
if ($url[0] == 'product_id') {
$this->request->get['product_id'] = $url[1];
}
if ($url[0] == 'category_id') {
if (!isset($this->request->get['path'])) {
$this->request->get['path'] = $url[1];
} else {
$this->request->get['path'] .= '_' . $url[1];
}
}
if ($url[0] == 'manufacturer_id') {
$this->request->get['manufacturer_id'] = $url[1];
}
if ($url[0] == 'information_id') {
$this->request->get['information_id'] = $url[1];
}
} else {
$this->request->get['route'] = 'error/not_found';
}
}
if (isset($this->request->get['product_id'])) {
$this->request->get['route'] = 'product/product';
} elseif (isset($this->request->get['path'])) {
$this->request->get['route'] = 'product/category';
} elseif (isset($this->request->get['manufacturer_id'])) {
$this->request->get['route'] = 'product/manufacturer/product';
} elseif (isset($this->request->get['information_id'])) {
$this->request->get['route'] = 'information/information';
}
else {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE keyword = '" . $this->db->escape($this->request->get['_route_']) . "'");
if ($query->num_rows) {
$this->request->get['route'] = $query->row['query'];
}
}
if (isset($this->request->get['route'])) {
return $this->forward($this->request->get['route']);
}
}
}
public function rewrite($link) {
if ($this->config->get('config_seo_url')) {
$url_data = parse_url(str_replace('&', '&', $link));
$url = '';
$data = array();
parse_str($url_data['query'], $data);
foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
if (isset($data['route'])) {
if (($data['route'] == 'product/product' && $key == 'product_id') || (($data['route'] == 'product/manufacturer/product' || $data['route'] == 'product/product') && $key == 'manufacturer_id') || ($data['route'] == 'information/information' && $key == 'information_id')) {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE `query` = '" . $this->db->escape($key . '=' . (int)$value) . "'");
if ($query->num_rows) {
$url .= '/' . $query->row['keyword'];
unset($data[$key]);
}
} elseif ($key == 'path') {
$categories = explode('_', $value);
foreach ($categories as $category) {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE `query` = 'category_id=" . (int)$category . "'");
if ($query->num_rows) {
$url .= '/' . $query->row['keyword'];
}
}
unset($data[$key]);
}
else {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "url_alias WHERE `query` = '" . $this->db->escape($data['route']) . "'");
if ($query->num_rows) {
$url .= '/' . $query->row['keyword'];
unset($data[$key]);
}
}
}
}
if ($url) {
unset($data['route']);
$query = '';
if ($data) {
foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
$query .= '&' . $key . '=' . $value;
}
if ($query) {
$query = '?' . trim($query, '&');
}
}
return $url_data['scheme'] . '://' . $url_data['host'] . (isset($url_data['port']) ? ':' . $url_data['port'] : '') . str_replace('/index.php', '', $url_data['path']) . $url . $query;
} else {
return $link;
}
} else {
return $link;
}
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Simple question, did you turn on the Rewrite module or do you have the rewrite module enabled on your hosting solution ?
And did you create the good .htaccess to make all of this work ?