productid is an x-cart design flaw
I'm trying to deal with this same issue ... thanks for the tip on this mod. In your sample URL, both productcode and productid appear. Do you know if this mod allows you to specify a static URL that drops the productid alltogether?
The generation of productids and their central role in many aspects of X-Cart functioning is a basic design flaw that I keep hoping gets dumped in furture releases. In this instance, it's a problem because uploads can change the productid, and subsequently all of your static links suddenly become outdated if you regen the static HTML pages.
If you search posts in this forum you can find dozens of instances year after year where people want to use a user-defined product codes (SKU) and avoid having X-Cart assign a completely arbitrary code (productid) that can change with future uploads. The random and unstable nature of the productid is problem in a wide range of contexts, and the case for a substantial offsetting benefit for this architecture is very thin.
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