Virtuemart Artio Joom SEF extension FREE

Artio JoomSEF needs certain extensions to be installed in order for Artio to create Search engine Friendly  URLs. If you don't install them Artio won't create SEF URLs and your Joomla URLs will look like this:

http://www.onewire.co.uk/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.
flypage/product_id,33/category_id,11/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,19/  

If you have the extension installed it will look something like this:

http://www.onewire.co.uk/shop/sensors/power/basic-power.html

Artio have extensions for certain key Joomla components but several of them have to be paid for. Their Virtuemart extension is a case in hand. It is not expensive for what it does but you have to pay for it.  The one offered here is free.

Do not install this extension the usual Joomla way but instead do so by going to the Artio component itself  and clicking the Artio extension install button.

Note: Try this extension out yourself and trial it for a while - see if it works for you! I have tried it on my demo shop and although it worked it did some some strange stuff to some of the URLs. Virtuemart pages had a /0/ inserted at the top level. Also IE7 had some problems with deriving the correct image path from the supplied URL whereas IE6 and firefox were fine.  

It may work fine on your virtuemart site but test it first on a virtuemart cart that is not so important - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! :-)