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As you might know, the OXID eShop system is highly search engine friendly (SEF), offering as one of the favorite features the ability to construct keyword-rich URLs,

ex. http://www.myshop.de/category-one/very-good-product.html

The URLs can be constructed by hand, manually, or alternatively will be generated by the system based on the title of the product and to which category it belongs.

Due to the automatic generation based on product category and title, it is possible that if 2 or more products in the same category could be assigned to the same URL, which obviously wouldn’t work.  OXID mitigates this problem by allowing for a generic keyword to be appended in the end of the URL, followed by a numeric value.

The generic keyword can be setup under Master Settings > Core Settings > SEO > SEO Suffix for differing Similar SEO URLs.

Then, in the case of a conflict, the URLs would look like:

http://www.myshop.de/category-one/very-good-product-GENERIC_KW-01.html

http://www.myshop.de/category-one/very-good-product-GENERIC_KW-02.html

The OXID eShop database allows for a range of days (to and from) to be stored within which a product would ship.  It is then up to the template to “consume” these database fields and display them under shipping-information of a product’s description page.

The shipping dates range can be set under Administer Products > Products > [Search for a Product and load it's details] > Stock (tab).  Then fill out the Delivery time From and To, as seen in the below screenshot.

In order to test the functionality, you may use the latest OXID e-Shop, available from http://www.oxid-demo-shop.de.

If you are using the OXID CE B2B Pro Shop, or for that any other standard OXID installation with the FCKEditor, and wish to insert images into your OXID:

• Product Descriptions
• Category Long Texts
• CMS Pages

or any other place the FCKEditor is used to edit content, one config file in the FCKEditor Module for OXID has to be set to define the file-storage location on the server, as well as the relative path to which URLs on web-page refer to.  Following are the adjustments to be made in the config.php file found at:

oxidshop@server:~/www/admin/fck/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/config.php

// Path to user files relative to the document root.
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/shopdir/out/' ;

// Fill the following value it you prefer to specify the absolute path for the
// user files directory. Useful if you are using a virtual directory, symbolic
// link or alias. Examples: 'C:\\MySite\\userfiles\\' or '/root/mysite/userfiles/'.
// Attention: The above 'UserFilesPath' must point to the same directory.
// $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/out/' ;
$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = '/home/shopdir/www/out/' ;

Drawback

The main drawbacks of this way of setting the FCKEditor image path are:

1. Cumbersome to dig into the FCKEditor installation and change code-files
2. When moving files from development, to staging, to production servers, this path has to be adjusted each time.  In addition, if you are using SVN for development purposes, the path has to be readjusted on each svn up, or figure out a way to eliminate it from the SVN paths.

Notes

Ideal would be for the FCKEditor Module for OXID to extract this path from OXID’s config.inc.php file, which would also offer the advantage of a single-point-of-maintenence.

See also

Images in OXID Article-Descriptions and CMS-Content

The default OXID eSales software comes without a WYSIWYG Editor.  euroblaze uses the FCKEditor to facilitate this to shop-owners who don’t want to deal with writing HTML code.

Inserting Images into FCKEditor

To upload pictures into your content edited by the editor, follow the markings on the screens below:

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