How to avoid customers to manual type products per page on URL?

[WebPT]

This is getting anoying, I have a lot of products on a certain category and some users simply change the URL and manual imput the number of products that I have in that category making the website slow in each refresh.

 

Is there any easy way I can avoid this?

 

 

The max value shown to customers is 100 on the dropdown box, but they simply can change the url

 

Example:

 

xxxxxxxx?id_category=11111&n=20

 

they change to

 

xxxxxxxx?id_category=11111&n=123123123

 

In this example the 123123123 is the number shown to customers on how many products there are in a certain category, when they change the URL they can see all products on same page, now imagine a bunch of people doing the same over and over 

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[Doulas Akula]

Is the main problem the website being slow or you dont want customers to be able to edit url parameters.

 

If the website is slow - there are optimisation measures you could take to make it faster even if users type parameters directly on the address bar.

 

However if you need to change such that the parameters cant be seen on the address bar and therefore uneditable - It might mean changing the way the parameters are passed to prestashops core from get to something like post. - but this if the issue is speed wont be worth the effort

[WebPT]

Is the main problem the website being slow or you dont want customers to be able to edit url parameters.

 

If the website is slow - there are optimisation measures you could take to make it faster even if users type parameters directly on the address bar.

 

However if you need to change such that the parameters cant be seen on the address bar and therefore uneditable - It might mean changing the way the parameters are passed to prestashops core from get to something like post. - but this if the issue is speed wont be worth the effort

 

Thank you for your reply. One of the main issues is the site being slow because right now it's sitting on a shared server, but the plan is to move it to a dedicated server. All optimizations i've tried don't cause significant changes.

 

Any good material here on the foruns about optimizations or somewhere on the web I may have missed? I'm currently using 1.6.1.11

[Doulas Akula]

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[Geo Burlibasa]

You could make an override to encode that variable in base64, then decode it back

[bellini13]

You can make a server side change, so that the value passed into the URL cannot exceed a certain number.  I believe this would be controlled in the FrontController class, which has a function named pagination.  It retrieves the value of 'n' from the URL.

 

So if you override this class/function, you can check the value of n, and if it is higher than xx, then you can change it back to 100