SEO Freindly URLs while Browsing/Searching of Products

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Hi,

I am a totally newbie with OXID and I tried to understand the structure but it seems very complex and I cant seem to get it in my head. I need some help in starting up with the code because I am trying to maintain the SEO Friendly URLs while browosing through the products. Let me explain how, go to the following link…

http://www.voycontigo.de/outdoor-handschuhe-herren/

you will see a list of products now on the left column you will see “Marke:”. The problem is that when I click on any Marke(Brand) it filters the list but the URL is something like this.

http://www.voycontigo.de/index.php?

but it should be like this…

For Marke(Brand) “Arcteryx”:

http://www.voycontigo.de/outdoor-handschuhe-herren/arcteryx/

and For Marke(Brand) “Ortovox”:

http://www.voycontigo.de/outdoor-handschuhe-herren/ortovox/

for some reason the filtering is working as when I manually go to these links, they do filter with respect to the Brand. I dont know how and why the links are working while they are not being used from the system as the system is passing the filter via post and I believe it is storing in a session too.

So any guidance on this problem on How I can maintain my SEO Friendly URLs while Browsing through the product catalog.

Looking forward to your quick replies.

Thanks,
Ahtasham

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I don’t know why filtering works with the manufacturer in the URL. Strange. But i don’t think this is really usable. If you want to retain the url while filtering you could leave the “action” form-attribute empty, i don’t see any problems with that. If you want to keep the filtered results bookmarkable, you could switch the form to method “get”, i don’t see any problems with that either, but you have to test for yourself.

PS: In case you’re interested, i have a module available which allows to switch between attribute values without having to reset the filter: http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6501#post38458