What's the difference between Basic Friendly URLs and Advanced Friendly URLs?

[benative]

I went to Settings - Options - Server Settings and Optimization Options, and there are two types of Friendly URLs. (basic & advanced)

What's the difference of them?

I know that Friendly URLs help serch engines like google, yahoo to search my website. (please correct me if i am wrong.)

but i have no clue what basic or advanced urls are.

is advanced any better?

[ChopSuey]

Advanced it is UGLY
Example of Basic
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?236746-What-s-the-difference-between-Basic-Friendly-URLs-and-Advanced-Friendly-URLs?
Example of Advanced
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php/236746-What-s-the-difference-between-Basic-Friendly-URLs-and-Advanced-Friendly-URLs?

You wouldn't want that now would you? lol

So it just adds a " / " after showthread.php, member.php and sure is ugly ;)

[compwhizii]

Advanced it is UGLY
Example of Basic
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236746
Example of Advanced
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php/236746-What-s-the-difference-between-Basic-Friendly-URLs-and-Advanced-Friendly-URLs?

You wouldn't want that now would you? lol

That is incorrect. From the vBulletin code:

/**
* Render the friendly url.
*
* @example
* FRIENDLY_URL_OFF
* showthread.php?t=1234&p=2
*
* FRIENDLY_URL_BASIC
* showthread.php?1234-Thread-Title/page2&pp=2
*
* FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED
* showthread.php/1234-Thread-Title/page2?pp=2
*
* FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE
* /threads/1234-Thread-Title/page2?pp=2
* RewriteRule ^/vb4/threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) /vb4/showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [QSA]
*
* @param int $method_override - Force a Friendly URL method
* @param bool $canonical - Whether to skip encoding for output
* @return string
*/

[ChopSuey]

Sorry i edited it. But i'd go with standard.