Help for Aimeos

Hello!

I`m developing a store with Aimeos 2019.10. The main language of this store is Ukrainian, so product names are written in Ukrainian. According to this, i have a cyrillic symbols in my URLs, what is bad for SEO.

Each time i add a product i have to add a custom latin text (on the Texts tab of product page) to use it as URL segment. This is terrible when i have a lot of products.

Please, tell me, is there any way to transform cyrillic name of product to latin symbols and save it as text for URL segment along with product?

My environment is CentOS 7, PHP 7.3, Laravel 6.2, Aimeos 2019.10

PHP has the "iconv" method to translate between character sets but the results are somtimes terrible:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv

The fastest way: Use product labels with latin characters and remove the url segments. You always have to add a label, so it's no extra effort and they are used if no url segments are available.

aimeos wrote: ↑18 Feb 2020, 11:25 PHP has the "iconv" method to translate between character sets but the results are somtimes terrible:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv

The fastest way: Use product labels with latin characters and remove the url segments. You always have to add a label, so it's no extra effort and they are used if no url segments are available.

Hi! Thank you for reply.
But still, if i will use product labels with latin characters i`ll get latin product names among ukrainian descriptions, attributes, characteristics and other texts in my store.

Good point about "iconv", but, as for me, is better to use a custom php function for transliteration.

I was thinking about writing one and use it to transliterate cyrillic product names before posting a product. Then create a new text in Texts tab and use previously transliterated name as URL segment. Unfortunately, i have no idea how can i add this new text field automatically during saving the product instead of creating this text field manually.
Could you advise something? I think i`m not the only one, who faces this issue. It would be a great improvement for aimeos webstores, which use cyrillic languages.

D-Cell wrote: ↑18 Feb 2020, 13:00 But still, if i will use product labels with latin characters i`ll get latin product names among ukrainian descriptions, attributes, characteristics and other texts in my store.

Not if each product has a text of type "name" but that wouldn't reduce the work for your editors.

D-Cell wrote: ↑18 Feb 2020, 13:00 I was thinking about writing one and use it to transliterate cyrillic product names before posting a product. Then create a new text in Texts tab and use previously transliterated name as URL segment. Unfortunately, i have no idea how can i add this new text field automatically during saving the product instead of creating this text field manually.

You could extend the product text subpart and overwrite the fromArray() method. There you can add a new text item automatically with "url" type when the product is saved:
https://github.com/aimeos/ai-admin-jqad ... #L305-L350

Alternatively, you could automatically add a text entry of type "url" with the transliterated name in the product detail view via Javascript/Vue.js for new items when the product.label field has been filled:
- https://github.com/aimeos/ai-admin-jqad ... ct.js#L148
- https://github.com/aimeos/ai-admin-jqad ... #L667-L678

Thank you! I`ll try to use one of the options you provided and post the solution here in case of success.

Ok...i give up (. Seems like i am not qualified enough to achieve it. Hope the automatic product name transliteration will be added to one of the future versions of Aimeos. It would be a great improvement for those people, who uses cyrillic languages in their stores.