forums part you can disable (i.e. remove the "/")

i posted a fix for the additioanl text ons earches (i left an echo statement).

be careful when changing settings as u have toupdate the .htaccess file also.

all fixed. hope thers no more errors ;)

No no, I do not mean limiting the allowed thread title length but the length of the name in the url. Cause rewriting only depends on the id in the url I think I will strip an url from blar-blar-blar-blar-12.html down to blar-12.html (first X chars of the title)

Thats what i mean -- it can be done very easily.

I found a new bug too. When a user creates a username with a space in it, it creates the html file -###.html instead of user name-###.html. Is there a way to sanitize that so it doesn't break and leave out the username?

This is NOT a bug and the code is WORKING as designed...


HOWEVER, if you really wanted to keep the space... you could do this
in the xml file search for (there should be two instances of it):

<b>And replace it with </b>
But if a user enters a space in the thread name (or forum name for that matter), it won't be replaced with a "-"
SO a thread name with "this is my thread" (t = 82) would be replaced as
"this is my thread-82.html" as opposed to "this-is-my-thread-82.html"


From a SEO stand point, how does it make a difference whether you keep the space or replace it with a "-"?
I am no expert, but I think this is irrelevent.
Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, the browser would replace the space with a %20

The problem actually happening, is that it shows /member/-###.html instead of showing the username at all. It's not displaying ANYTHING for the username. Is that how it's supposed to work?

Is that for every user name or just th eusername with a space? is it on forumhome or a thread?

it's actually just happening with that ONE username, being displayed on the homepage. I'm using the 'all the latest visitors that were here in the last 24 hours'. the other usernames work just fine, if they don't have spaces, but this one breaks.

Also, do you have plans in rewriting the memberlist.php pages or somehow making it easier for search engines to find all the member profiles? I haven't been able to get a working sitemap with all the rewritten pages yet...

This seems more like a noncompatability issue than a bug. I'll take a look at making it compatable once 1.5 is stable :)

I configured vBSEO sitemap to write urls for vrewrite.