Product title NOT spider friendly URL

[nassau]

Hi
I've got spider friendly URLs "on" and they work great, except one thing...

In the categories / subcategories page view if you click on a products image you get a friendly URL like:
/reviews/showproduct.php/product/10/cat/3
if you click on the "reviews link" you also get a friendly URL like:
/reviews/showproduct.php/product/10/sort/8/cat/3/page/1
BUT if you click on the product's title (which is the most important one - it's the most obvious one for the visitor to click on and uses the keywords) you don't get a friendly URL but something like this:
/reviews/showproduct.php?product=10&cat=3
Can "product's title links" also lead to spider friendly URLs and how?

ALSO could the spider friendly URLs become even more friendly?
Instead of using category / product id could they use - title instead?
Thank you

[Chuck S]

In showcat.php lines 519-520 should be this

Content visible to verified customers only.

[nassau]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

In showcat.php lines 519-520 should be this

Content visible to verified customers only.

Hi Chuck
I replaced lines 519-520 with the ones above,
index works fine but when i click on a "category" i get the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '%', expecting ']' in ....../reviews/showcat.php on line 216
Peviewpost is "working" with phpbb 2 does that lelp?
Thank you

[Chuck S]

I would suggest you pasted something incorrectly when editing the file.

Try a clean file and just replace those two lines. Delete the ones there and replace them with these two. I use spider urls here and they are fine

http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews/showcat.php/cat/36

[nassau]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

I would suggest you pasted something incorrectly when editing the file.

Try a clean file and just replace those two lines. Delete the ones there and replace them with these two. I use spider urls here and they are fine

http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews/showcat.php/cat/36

Thank you Chuck and sorry about that it looks like i got something wrong earlier.......

You didn't answer the 2nd half of ny question though
could the spider friendly URLs become even more friendly?
Instead of using category / product id could they use - title instead?
Thank you

[Chuck S]

Well I am sure you could hack your files to achieve that although it would from what I see would require a new variable name since cat is reserved in all files as the numeric id. Something that surely as a company we can look at in future versions.

Every comparible product we work with that has spider urls uses the shortened urls of some design as the way as it is done now. Our spider friendly urls are similar to vbulletin and ubbthreads forums.

[nassau]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Well I am sure you could hack your files to achieve that although it would from what I see would require a new variable name since cat is reserved in all files as the numeric id. Something that surely as a company we can look at in future versions.

Every comparible product we work with that has spider urls uses the shortened urls of some design as the way as it is done now. Our spider friendly urls are similar to vbulletin and ubbthreads forums.

Thank you Chuck but i rather not go that deep. I'm pretty sure though if you include this in a future version it will be very welcome from everyone
Thanks again