How can I create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart?

Question

How can you customize system URLs in OpenCart? For example, I would like http://example.com/index.php?route=checkout/cart to be displayed as http://example.com/cart

Answer 1

Put this near the top of your index.php file. It was the only solution that worked for me.

switch($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])
{
    case '/old-url': $three01 = "/new-url"; break;
}

if($three01)
{
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: ".$three01); exit;
}