[Zope] How to get Search engines to index dynamic pages?

[Joakim Nicander]

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Thanks Johan,

It seems the Sql method is the method I will use. It seems I have to read up
on all Zope traverse magic. ;)

Regards,

Joakim Nicander


-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Carlsson [Easy Publisher Team] [mailto:johanc@torped.se]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:14 PM
To: Joakim Nicander; zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] How to get Search engines to index dynamic pages?


>At 11:46 2003-02-21 +0100, Joakim Nicander said:
>
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>We have several customer sites with dynamic pages created with data from
>MySql.
>
>Many search engines doesn't index an URL with a query string like:
>
>Http://www.somesite.com/category_page?category=2
>
>will be indexed as:
>
>Http://www.somesite.com/category_page
>
>Is there a method with in Zope or a Zope product that can help me create a
>site map with links like:
>
>Http://www.somesite.com/category_page/category/2
>
>I know there is a tool for asp http://xde.net/xq/tool.xqasp/qx/index.htm.
>Something similar for Zope?
>
>I guess apache with mod_rewrite can help me but I rather do it within Zope.
>
>
>
>You can make the SQL Methods traversable like: SQLmethod/category/2
>
>
>"""In order to traverse to result objects with URLs, you must be able to
ensure that the SQL Method
>will return only one result object given one argument. For example, create
a new Z SQL Method
>named 'category_page' that accepts one argument, category, and has the
following SQL Template: """
>
>
>        select * from
>category_table where
>          <dtml-sqltest
>category op=eq type=int>
>
>
>The you need a presentation (DTML Method for instace) on the top of it all
to produce a presentation:
>
>
>DTML Method: /view
>CategoryPage
>and access the record with: SQLmethod/cattegory/2/
>view
>CategoryPage
>You can also use traversal in combination with Plugable Brains defined in
the Extensions directory.
>
>Pluggable Brains are classes that define objects with extended
functionality for the list of brains
>returned by the SQL Method.
>
>Brest Regards,
>Johan Carlsson
>
>
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