How do I create categories such as this?:
http://www.webpricecheck.co.uk/category/
from there, how do I create the page that has all the products from that category such as this?
http://www.webpricecheck.co.uk/category/Barbecues-Accessories/
I read the about category mapping, and it seems that it takes various words and redirects under your designated category. Also, with product mapping, I don't understand the logic of mapping different ones to just one master?
Hi,
To enable the way webpricecheck.co.uk displays categories you need to enable clean URLs by changing line 8 in your config.php to:
$config_useRewrite = TRUE;Finally, you also need to create the required .htaccess file which is in the distribution as htaccess.txt (since it is difficult to distribute files that begin with . as they are hidden by most operating systems!)
To do this, open htaccess.txt in your text editor, and then save it as .htaccess and finally upload to your Price Tapestry installation - and then your merchant, category and brand indexes will be exactly as in the demo site.
Regarding Product Mapping, this is to enable you to match together the same product between different merchants where they use slightly different names. This means that you only have one product page per product; where all merchants stocking that product are compared. If the product names remain slightly different, there is no way to match them together and you would actually have multiple product pages with possibly only 1 merchant each which makes your site less valuable in terms of providing price comparison!
Cheers,
David.
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