HikaShop Search plugin adding “wrong” category to search results url??

-- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.7.2
-- PHP version -- : 7.0.20-2~ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : chrome


Upon clicking on a search result of a hikashop category or product the resulting url has the “wrong” category added to the url.

For example, searching for product “italy” the category and products are displayed with this url:

http://localhost/joomloom/component/search/?searchword=italy&searchphrase=all&Itemid=101

But on selecting an item this url is displayed:

http://localhost/joomloom/africa-maps/country/italy-trek-free-map-file

and italy is not in africa, yet. “africa-maps” is added to any HikaShop category/product search. This occurs when starting a search from any menu item. Note: “country” is correctly added as a category description.

When selecting a search term that is not a hikashop category/product the url does not have a category (or other information) added:

http://localhost/joomloom/about/about-maps/gps-settings

I believe that when searching for a category/product joomla uses the HikaShop search plugin and otherwise it uses the jommla search plugin, hence the difference. What is strange is that despite the url containing the “wrong” category the correct product is shown and can be selected.

This occurs with both joomla 3.7.2 and 3.6.4. Both sites are using HikaShop 3.1.1, Apache2.4, MariaDB and Simple not Smart Search. SEF is enabled.

While it works my concern is that this (if in fact a bug) can break things in the future.

Thoughts?

Thanks, pitney

Nicolas -

Thank you for your reply, I had neither item id or canonical urls set up.
As a "quick fix" I set the item id in both product and category hikashop search to "101" which is my home page menu item.
This works for products (removes "africa-maps") but not for categories which still display "africa-maps" in the url which is my first hikashop category.
If I follow the search results from category to products the url will retain the "africa-maps".
Trying various combinations of item id (in both category and product) does not fix the issue.

Is there a restriction on categories that prevents the use of item id?

thanks, pitney

For those following this,
my "quick fix" was to create a hidden hikashop menu as a category listing, add an appropriate title and add this itemid in the hikashop categories search plugin.

pitney