Any ideas of what I can change (other than uninstalling the SEO mod) to make the two play nice?

Thanks in advance.

UTI already stores date and time in TIMESTAMP field.

As for storing attribute value as varchar… I couldn’t use other field type as it’s general purpose field. User should be able to store int, long, string, date, array, js, json data in that field. Therefore I’ve used VARCHAR instead of INT, BIGINT. There are some performance consequences of using BLOB or TEXT fields so I didn’t used them either. In retrospective I could have used VARBINARY instead of VARCHAR but in most cases it doesn’t matter.

Note: UTI does not use VARCHAR column as primary key. tsid field in uti table has just unique constraint on it.

As for the size of uti tables… On one site with 200 000 visits/month uti takes about 0,5 gb of space and performance is not an issue. Note: it’s not bare uti module, there’s also randomized tests, recently viewed products, recent searches, default currency, persistent shopping cart between user sessions and few others – so uti_attributes takes more space.

Thank You for Your suggestions, I really appreciate them. I’ll try to release new UTI within week or two – with few new features:

IP as INT
custom uti attribute merge functions
many bug fixes

Im thinking of using UTI to track recent views and such, but perhaps I will only use the part of code to recognize users and have a custom table to keep track of the recently viewed products.

/*$content = “”;
foreach ($recently_viewed_products as $rpid) {
$rpprice = zen_get_products_display_price($rpid);
$content .= ”;
$content .= zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . zen_get_products_image($rpid), $rpid, SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
$img = $db->Execute(”SELECT * FROM ” . TABLE_PRODUCTS . ” WHERE products_id = ‘” . (int)$rpid . “‘”);
$img = $img->fields['products_image'];
$content .= ‘‘ . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $img, $rpid, SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
$content .= ” . zen_get_products_name($rpid) . ‘‘;
$content .= ” . $rpprice . ”;
$content .= ”};
}
echo $content;*/

Execute(”SELECT * FROM ” . TABLE_PRODUCTS . ” WHERE products_id = ‘” . (int)$rpid . “‘”);
$img = $img->fields['products_image'];
$content .= ‘‘ . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $img, $rpid, SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
$content .= ” . zen_get_products_name($rpid) . ‘‘;
$content .= ” . $rpprice . ”;
$content .= ”};
}
echo $content;*/ ?>

I did place tags around the code. Any suggestions. Thanks again.

Now, back to your question. Let’s assume that You want to display list of recently viewed products. Edit includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php (or copy it from template_default if Your template does not yet have this file). Put following code where You want to display recently viewed products:

$content = “”;
foreach ($recently_viewed_products as $rpid) {
$rpprice = zen_get_products_display_price($rpid);;
$content .= ”;
//$content .= zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . zen_get_products_image($rpid), $rpid, SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
$img = $db->Execute(“SELECT * FROM ” . TABLE_PRODUCTS . ” WHERE products_id = ‘” . (int)$rpid . “‘”);
$img = $img->fields['products_image'];
$content .= ‘‘ . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $img, $rpid, SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
$content .= ” . zen_get_products_name($rpid) . ‘‘;
$content .= ” . $rpprice . ”;
$content .= ”;
}
echo $content;

You’ll have to format the divs with css – I really suck at HTML&CSS. If You wish to not show sidebox You’ll have to either comment out whole includes/templates/YOUR_TAMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_recently_viewed_products.php file. Disabling the sidebox in Admin panel will also disable logic behind it and $recently_viewed_products variable will be empty then.