Remove ALL Redirects, No Bugs, All Browsers

[Nomb]

First, I created a new thread or Hack because I myself was having trouble getting this to work out right, although, I really can?t claim full credit for it. Other than thinking to combine a few hacks in a special way I didn?t do much. :)

These 2 hacks together (Sort of, I removed a lot from Anime-loo?s hack) make it work!

Anime-loo (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1068)
Remove Posting Redirection (like vB3) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52098)

Tommy Boy (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1890)
Remove Intermediate Redirection Page (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32564)


What does this hack do?

This hack will remove ALL intermediate redirection messages from all pages (vB 3 style). In addition, when posting a reply to a thread you will be taken to the correct post, i.e. The post that was just created by yourself. This hack will work with all browsers.

Also, this hack works with the quick reply box just in case you were wondering.

Difficultly?

Easy: Edit 2 php files, admin/functions.php and newreply.php. Add one line of code and change 2 lines of code.

See attached text file for instructions. :D

UPDATE 9/26/2003

For instructions on using this hack in vB version 2.3.2 please click below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=436791&postcount=71

[Curll]

Hell yeah, Nomb! Installing it now!

[Curll]

Nomb, you are a prince among men :D


- RiZ

[007]

This is VERY similar to: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53457&highlight=redirections

:ermm:

[WEForums]

Today at 12:50 AM 006 said this in Post #4 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=403596#post403596)
This is VERY similar to: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53457&highlight=redirections

:ermm: That hack, however, has a lot of instructions and even an MySQL query. I think this one looks a lot easier and most likely better.

Not sure about it being anything new as it has been done by a lot of people, but still looks pretty good. I think I am going to try it.

[Erwin]

LOL! Very smart, using newpost rather than the postid in newreply. Now, why didn't I think of that! Good work.

[alkatraz]

that was painlessly easy! THANK YOU!!!

[blackice912]

Dude, thumbs up on this one.

[Nomb]

Today at 07:10 PM Erwin said this in Post #6 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=403637#post403637)
LOL! Very smart, using newpost rather than the postid in newreply. Now, why didn't I think of that! Good work.

Bout time someone said something about this ... *nudge* :p

[pucca]

Wow, amazing. :) Thanks!

[Lethal]

hmm, i have the other one installed now. I think I might use this one. Thanks good job.

[matthepepe]

works great, that was a great idea on how this one functions.

[Opie]

Yesterday at 08:10 PM Erwin said this in Post #6 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=403637#post403637)
LOL! Very smart, using newpost rather than the postid in newreply. Now, why didn't I think of that! Good work.


Not so great if you haven't read a few pages it won't take you to the last page.

Like how these forums are, it takes you to the top are a reply and my lazy self has to scroll down again. It's annoying..

[Chris M]

That is strange, because my version (similar to Karsten's) works perfectly and takes me to my last post:)

Nice idea though;)

Satan

[WEForums]

Why not use the postid? You could do showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&goto=lastpost&forumid=$forumid but it still takes you to the post ID.

Anyway, what's bad about it?

[Nomb]

Today at 12:50 AM Opie said this in Post #13 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=403743#post403743)
Not so great if you haven't read a few pages it won't take you to the last page.

Like how these forums are, it takes you to the top are a reply and my lazy self has to scroll down again. It's annoying..

What are you talking about? I don't understand?

[WEForums]

Apparently vB.org does not redirect to the postid after a reply. Happens to me as well.

EDIT: I dunno, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I have ADSL and I let the page sit there for a few seconds after it says Done and still nothing happens (occasionally).

[Chris M]

Hmm...

I haven't noticed at vB.org, but at one of the developing sites I have it works fine:)

Edit: And it just re-directed me to my post just now;)

Satan

[sphinx]

very good m8 well done

[OmaniMan]

Great Hack :) ...
OmaniMan Has Install It *

[corsacrazy]

remarcably ez 2 install ;)

[drumsy]

Installed! :)

[SouledOut]

GREAT HACK! Now no one can critize my "Your being transfered back to your thread in 5...4...3...2...1..." message :-P and that many less templates I dont need to worry about.

[SpeedStreet]

ooh..I think I will try it

[SpeedStreet]

Wow...this rocks.

Nice work, very slim and tidy!

[SpeedStreet]

ooh...I do see it though...Every now and again, it kicks me back to the first page of a thread, and not to my post.

[Crazy Pete]

Excellent hack, I've been looking forward to this ever since I saw vb3. It's a subtle change, but it really does seem to increase speed on the boards, or at least give that impression. Great job!

[Nomb]

Yesterday at 09:33 PM SpeedStreet said this in Post #26 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=404180#post404180)
ooh...I do see it though...Every now and again, it kicks me back to the first page of a thread, and not to my post.

Happened to me a couple times here (at vB.org) too.

I think vB.org needs to use this hack. ;)

EDIT: yea, vB.org is passing:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=12345

It's not adding the #12345 at the end

[Erwin]

The intermittent problem at vB.org is fixed now. :)

[KelteN]

Works great! Thanks man!

[Parker Clack]

On my board it doesn' take you to the last post but the 1st new post in the thread since you last logged on. Anyway around this?

Parker

[Erwin]

Today at 04:16 AM Parker Clack said this in Post #31 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=406177#post406177)
On my board it doesn' take you to the last post but the 1st new post in the thread since you last logged on. Anyway around this?

Parker


Change newpost to lastpost and see if that works better.

[S.Shady]

I nominate this for the best damed hack ever made :) thank you works perfectly on 1.1.0 ;)

offtopic
-erwin i feel sorry who had to type that email domain ban list
/offtopic

[cinq]

Anyone got this on 2.2.9 ?

[cirisme]

Yes.

[Nomb]

Yesterday at 12:16 PM Parker Clack said this in Post #31 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=406177#post406177)
On my board it doesn' take you to the last post but the 1st new post in the thread since you last logged on. Anyway around this?

Parker

This kinda shouldn't happen, err, sorta. I'm confused about how Jelsoft has a users lastvist and lastactivity. The query for goto=newpost grabs the postid where the dateline is greater than the users lastvist. For some reason lastvisit isn?t updated all the time like lastactivity is. I have no idea why they have two fields, lastactivity and lastvisit?!?

Like Erwin said, change:

goto=newpost

To:

goto=lastpost

The query for goto=lastpost simply finds the last post in the thread (The one you posted).

My text file in the original post has been updated.

[Erwin]

Yesterday at 01:32 PM S.Shady said this in Post #33 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=406355#post406355)
offtopic
-erwin i feel sorry who had to type that email domain ban list
/offtopic

I didn't. eva2000, a vB.com team member, did it. :) I just link to it.

[S.Shady]

i didnt say you did. :) i just said i feel sorry for who did :) Must have taken awhile and to recheck them for errors :( i would have quit. lol

[dslteam]

I have installed it (2.2.9) but since i did it, the popup notification of the private messages doesn't word !!! it comes no popup!

any idea?

[Nomb]

This would not affect the pm popup. That is a global eval() that simply displays a template and has nothing to do with standard redirects.

[TheComputerGuy]

good job, I like it alot!

[Parker Clack]

Nomb:

It is working like a charm.

Now if someone could just ocme up with a new search function so the search function doesn't drag down the site.

Thanks for the wonderful hack.

Parker

[Erwin]

Today at 02:29 PM Parker Clack said this in Post #42 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=407864#post407864)
Now if someone could just ocme up with a new search function so the search function doesn't drag down the site.


Check out the hack in the Beta Hacks forum that uses native MySQL search to do vB searches, saving you lots of server load, as well as removing the need for searchindex. :)

[bloodcult]

i have the same problem as dslteam...
i installed on 2.3.0 and the popupnotification is not working...

i will try to reproduce the error... but i think... the redirection has nothing to do with javascript vom popup?

[bloodcult]

sorry 4 post... comment out, comment in and it works?!

[jamoss]

Got it! Thanks.

For the PM redirects, edit private.php

Find this line:


eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_pmthanks")."\",\"private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]\");");


Comment it out and put this one after it:


HEADER("LOCATION: private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]");

[Erwin]

You don't need to edit the private.php to get rid of the redirects - the functions code will fix it.

Also, the PM popup is NOT affected by this hack. It has been working on my private forums for over a year, and PM popup works without problems.

[Opie]

anyone see what this guy posted here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=394468#post394468

faster and easier edit. Works great on 2.3.0, read my post under his too.

[PurpleCow]

Besides This benefit :

it really does seem to increase speed on the boards, or at least give that impression.

What other benefit this hack offers when installed ??

I'd be interested to know more before installing it.

Thank you

[Nomb]

Yesterday at 11:43 PM Opie said this in Post #48 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=423026#post423026)
anyone see what this guy posted here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=394468#post394468

faster and easier edit. Works great on 2.3.0, read my post under his too.

That's exactly what this hack is. Except there's an extra portion so you are redirected to your own post after making a reply.

Although, after thinking about this I need to write my own little goto function similar to goto=newpost so that it takes you to the last post made by yourself. Because on busy boards things get tricky and you end up in different places if others have made replies while you were typing yours.

No time now, maybe erwin has done this, and maybe vB 3 does this as well, dunno, and haven?t looked.

[Opie]

Oh cool. I thought I downloaded this hack before for some reason.

[drumsy]

How do I make this 2.3.2 compliant?

[Floris]

This hack doesn't work on 2.3.2 - it does post the threads and new replies, but it doesn't redirect. It gives a invalid thread id or forumid error. It is the header part in functions.php that is wrong. (maybe $ url changed)

[silvershad0w]

When I upgraded to 2.3.2, I was surprised to find this didn't work any more. I decided than rather mess with a hack, I would try this. I like the output, it is slightly slower, but faster than w/ redirects. Plus is is super easy, even for a non-coder like me :)

Changed standardredirect template:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head><title>$pagetitle</title>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0 ; URL=$url">
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
<!-- <br><br>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="95%" align="center">
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td>
<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#0A293E" width="70%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#0E3652" align="center">
<p> <normalfont><b>$errormessage</b> <br><br> </normalfont>

<smallfont> <a href="$url">Click here if you do not want to wait any longer<br>
(or if your browser does not automatically forward you)</a> </smallfont> </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table> -->

</body>
</html>

[Alien]

I hope this is updated, otherwise I'll just use the others I suppose. :)

Definatly had to uninstall it after 2.3.2 upgrade.

[Floris]

mist, firefly and I had a short look at it and they came up with:

header ("Location: $bburl/".str_replace("&amp;","&",$url));

This worked, but unfortn. when someone is trying to login, they are redirected to a page with the forum//forum/index.php?s=sessionhashhere which ofcourse, results in a 404.

Some other 404 errors were reported too, so - this isn't bullet proof.

Maybe someone understands how to make a nice little fix :)

[Dean C]

if($bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0)
{
header ("Location: $bburl/".str_replace("&","&",$url));
}


?

[Floris]

lets try

[Dean C]

Try this:


if($bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0)
{
header ("Location: ".str_replace("&","&",$url));
}

[Floris]

thaz a no go :)

[Dean C]

Actually try this:


if($bbuserinfo['userid'] != 0)
{
header ("Location: $bburl/".str_replace("&","&",$url));
} else {
if (preg_match("/^.*\/member\.php$/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))
{
header ("Location: /".str_replace("&","&",$url));
}
}

[DeadGaze]

very nice and will come in handy indeed

[Alien]

Did the above work? I'd like to re-add this to my site since the 2.3.2 upgrade. :)

[N FUL FX]

Ditto.

[father max]

beautiful...thank you!

: )

[drumsy]

Does anyone know what to do to make this 2.3.2 compatible?

[N FUL FX]

Yes please!!! Seems like no one is responding anymore. I need it to work for 2.3.2 as well.

[gsk8]

Bump-i-ty Bump. I'm waiting too :)

[legendarysk8er]

Yes, I need it for 2.3.2....

[Nitesh]

Any luck on getting this to work on 2.3.2?

[Nomb]

For version 2.3.2:

Using the instructions in the original hack replace this:

header ("Location: $url");

with this

header ("Location: ".str_replace("&amp;","&",$url));

[PAINTBALLM]

works great, that was a great idea on how this one functions.

yay its matt, haahaaha....

Installed! Props to you my friend. Keep it up!

[magnus]

I'm having the same problem as someone else mentioned, lastpost isn't taking the user to the last post, instead, it's taking them to the last page and making them scroll down to find the latest post. I've been getting numerous gripes about it, heh.

[deaconxgp]

same here magnus