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walteis

02-19-2005 03:45 PM

404 page for handling bad HTML catalog pages

I don't remember if I posted this before. I've got a 404.shtml that I use to handle bad/old html catalog links. Say we've renamed a product, or no longer carry it, but some index still has that page indexed.

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

<!--





var fileName = "";



if (fileName.search("category|product")== -1) {



   window.location = "http://yourcartlocation";



}

else {

   fileName = fileName.replace("\.html"," ");

   var keywords = fileName.split("_");

   var searchterms = new Array();



   if (keywords[0].search("category")>1) {

      window.location = "http://yourcartlocation/customer/home.php?cat="+keywords[1];



   }

  

   else {

      for (i=2; i<keywords.length-1; i++) {

      searchterms.push(keywords[i]);  

      }



      var searchstr = searchterms.join("+");

      window.location = "http://yourcartlocation/customer/search.php?substring="+searchstr;

   }

}





//-->

</script>



window.location = "http://www.thingsfromtheattic.com/"

Works on 3.4.x.

Walt

DogByteMan

02-19-2005 04:17 PM

substring does not pass in 4.0.X. For a sec i thought I had it.... I'll work on it. If anyone knows how to pass the keywords in 4.0.X, let us know

DogByteMan

02-19-2005 07:35 PM

This is nothing short of a total bummer...

Finally find a way to have a search404 and because I upgraded 4.0.X I can't use it.

Anybody know how we can pass the variable in 4.0.X?

Lingerieblowout

02-20-2005 09:35 AM

Didn't work in 3.4.7

I tried this on 3.4.7 for an item I know I removed and went to google found it and when I click on it in goggle it went to the home page with search string http://www.lingerieblowout.com/customer/search.php?substring= any idea

Michael

walteis

02-20-2005 01:07 PM

You need to make sure that you or your hosting company has Server Side Includes (SSI) turned on. Your 404.shtml will need to be executable as well IIRC.

Lingerieblowout

02-21-2005 09:50 AM

SSI are turned on and the 404 page is set to executable. Its probably because my home page is set to redirect. to /customer

DogByteMan

02-22-2005 05:27 PM

How difficult would it be to change the POST method search in 4.0.x to the GET method found in 3.x.x, so that you could use substring=???

DogByteMan

02-23-2005 06:13 PM

OK let's try the question this way... How difficult would it be to implement the 3.x.x branch search into 4.0.x Version X-Carts so that substring=??? could be used for the 404search and for the ability to link searches.

DogByteMan

02-24-2005 09:37 AM

How can one tell when they have reached the limits of the X-Cart Forum???

Nobody answers your posts any longer :cry:

walteis

02-25-2005 08:56 AM

We're just converting to the 4.x branch, so I'll be rewriting this soon. I'll post a new version once that's done.

Walt

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