Slugify URL - remapping the letters & characters

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Hi everyone,

I’d like to customize how CS-Cart converts characters when generating SEO-friendly URLs (slugs). We are using default SEO add-on.

Right now, some local letters are transliterated incorrectly (for example, ə, ş, ğ, “ı” are not being transliterated at all). I’d like to define our own mapping rules — e.g.:

ə → e  
ü → u  
ş → s
ğ → g  
ö → o  
ç → c etc.

Is there a clean way to override or extend the default transliteration table used by the SEO add-on or built-in mechanism? Ideally something that survives upgrades (addon hook or config override).

Thanks in advance!

2

I think, you can extend the following schema

/app/schemas/literal_converter/umlauts.php

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3

Thanks! I believe there’s one more step here — since adding new rules to the schema doesn’t automatically update existing URLs. Could you please advise how to manually trigger a full URL regeneration for all products, categories, and pages?

I hope such trigger would also generate redirection rules?

4

For example, to regenerate category URLs, run the following query in the phpMyAdmin

DELETE FROM cscart_seo_names WHERE type = 'c';

5

Unfortunately, this would cause 404 errors due to breaking all the existing URLs without redirection rules.

Not only with category, but product links as well.

6

Category URLs will be regenerated “on the fly”

7

I am sorry, but the issue here is the product URLs at first.
This method “DELETE FROM cscart_seo_names WHERE type = ‘c’;” is dangerous, since it breaks the current product links without permanent redirection. That’s why I ask if there is a way to update the URLs with some function that would create the redirection mapping as well.

8

Yes, if the store is not new and already indexed by the bots, this method is not recommended. But it will not brake the store