Virtuemart 2 - How to remove SEO Suffix from Product Details aka -detail

If your using Virtuemart 2+ it requires you to use a -detail or .html  as a suffix for product pages.  Which really sucks if you are use to using SH404sef or some other plugin that will correctly re-route your URLs and make them nice. SH404sef no longer works with Virtuemart thus we are stuck with the default router. Here is how I fixed the router.php (included at the bottom for your downloading pleasuere)

Since there is not a plugin I dove into the router.php and made some simple quick fixes to ignore the SEO_Suffix and load products.

Around line 633
Code looked for categories in the last segment

$vars['virtuemart_category_id'] = $helper->getCategoryId (end($segments) ,$helper->activeMenu->virtuemart_category_id);
    $vars['view'] = 'category' ;

Changed to

$product = $helper->getProductId($segments ,$helper->activeMenu->virtuemart_category_id);
    $vars['virtuemart_product_id'] = $product['virtuemart_product_id'];
   $vars['virtuemart_category_id'] = $product['virtuemart_category_id'];


//codepyro - removed suffix from router 
  //check if the last segment is a product. 
  //if so then load the product details page instead of category 
 if(isset($vars['virtuemart_product_id']))
  {
   $vars['view'] = 'productdetails';
  }
  else
  { 
   $vars['virtuemart_category_id'] = $helper->getCategoryId (end($segments) ,$helper->activeMenu->virtuemart_category_id);
   $vars['view'] = 'category' ;
  }

Around line 943

//codepyro hack to remove suffix  
  if($this->seo_sufix_size >0)
   $productName =  substr($productName, 0, -(int)$this->seo_sufix_size );

You can download the updated router.php for Virtuemart 2.0.26d  

http://labs.codepyro.com/virtuemart2/router_removed_SEO_Suffix.zip

upload and replace the file

/components/com_virtuemart/router.php

updated 3.14.14 - I didn't realize that the site I had made these adjustments to all of the categories were set as menu items which of course makes a big difference. Anyway the zip file has been updated with the latest router.