Magento SEO Pagination like /page/2 - magento

Question

i am trying to play around with pager.phtml, basicaly i do not like the ?p=2 etc that magento use.
I have come through this code that will change the pagination to what i want but this brings of course 404 pages as there is no /page/2 etc.
Should i use a rewrite rule?Can somebody point me on this?
<div class="pages">
<strong><?php
$url= ($this->getCurrentPage()==1)?
$this->getPagerUrl(array($this->getOrderVarName()=>$order, $this->getDirectionVarName()=>$direction,$this->getPageVarName()=>null )).'/':
$this->getPagerUrl(array($this->getOrderVarName()=>$order, $this->getDirectionVarName()=>$direction,$this->getPageVarName()=>null )).'/';
echo $this->__('Page:') ?></strong>
<ol>
<?php if (!$this->isFirstPage()): ?>
<li>
<a class="previous<?php if(!$this->getAnchorTextForPrevious()): ?> i-previous<?php endif;?>"
href="<?php echo $url.'p='.($this->getCurrentPage()-1);?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Previous') ?>">
<?php if(!$this->getAnchorTextForPrevious()): ?>
<img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_left.png') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Previous') ?>" class="v-middle" />
<?php else: ?>
<?php echo $this->getAnchorTextForPrevious() ?>
<?php endif;?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endif;?>
<?php
$pages_Num= ($this->getTotalNum()%$this->getLimit())?(($this->getTotalNum()/$this->getLimit())+1):$this->getTotalNum()/$this->getLimit();
for($_page=1;$_page<=$pages_Num;$_page++){
if($this->getCurrentPage()==$_page) echo '<li class="current"><a class="current" href="'.$url.'page/'.$_page.'">'.$_page.'</a></li>';
else echo '<li>'.$_page.'</li>';
}
?>
<?php if (($this->getCurrentPage()+1)<$pages_Num): ?>
<li><a class="next<?php if(!$this->getAnchorTextForNext()): ?> i-next<?php endif; ?>"
href="<?php echo $url.'p='.($this->getCurrentPage()+1);?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Next') ?>">
<?php if(!$this->getAnchorTextForNext()): ?>
<img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/pager_arrow_right.png') ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Next') ?>" class="v-middle" />
<?php else: ?>
<?php echo $this->getAnchorTextForNext() ?>
<?php endif;?>
</a></li>
<?php endif;?>
</ol>
</div>

Answer 1

First, you need to create a custom router which will parse the requested URL.
The method match () of the router may be implemented with this piece of code like this:
public function match(Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request) {
$this->_beforeModuleMatch();
$url = $request->getRequestUri();
$suffix = Mage::getStoreConfig('catalog/seo/category_url_suffix');
$pagerUrlFormat = "\/page\/([0-9]+)";
if (preg_match('/' . $pagerUrlFormat . preg_quote($suffix, '/') . '/', $url, $match)) {
$url = str_replace($match[0], $suffix, $url);
$request->setRequestUri($url);
$path = $request->getPathInfo();
$path = str_replace($match[0], $suffix, $path);
$request->setPathInfo($path);
$request->setParam('p', $match[1]);
return true;
}
return false;
}
This code will generate a URL of such a kind: http://example.com/category/p/2.html
NB! Please note that the code above hasn't been tested. It's just a simplified version of the more advanced code that is used in our SEO module (SEO Suite Ultimate)
Here is the description of the feature that does what you actually need:
Ability to create a pager URL format for paginated pages Examples:
-page[page_number] will transform URL into /mobile-phones-page2.html /p/[page_number] will transform URL into /mobile-phones/p/2.html