Redirect member.php

[darkblade25]

I have shorter url for profile ex. http://www.mysite.com/Username

Is there a way to redirect the default member.php?u=1 to http://www.mysite.com/Username?

[Dismounted]

Yes - by using a plugin to smartly do redirects based on URL.

[darkblade25]

Not very good with plugin, but should I put the hook as global_start? Also how would the php code look, pseudocode is fine, just want to get an idea on how to do this.

[Dismounted]

Plugin should be at member_execute_start, because anything before does not have the username fetched.

[darkblade25]

Got it to work
$id = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('g', 'u', TYPE_INT);
if ($id)
{
$username = fetch_userinfo($id);
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/'.$userinfo['username'];
standard_redirect();
}

[Dismounted]

You have to check that the URL is not already in the correct format - see the PHP server environment variables. Also, you do not need that conditional, you are already running the plugin only in member.php.

[darkblade25]

Thanks, Dismounted. You were alot of help.