Friendlier URLs by BOP5
 

Current Version: 0.9 Beta

The purpose of this mod is to make "friendly" URLs in VB4 even better.

DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE VBSEO - It should already do this.

Demo: Test Thread on Qapla.com

For SEO purposes it is often best that only standard English characters and numbers are in URLs.

If you have a forum where non-English languages are used and you have letters with accents or other symbols in them they would become part of the links to your threads and your site would be indexed like that. However when a user searches for something like "Jagermeister" they will usually type "Jagermeister" into the search and not the technically correct "J?germeister."

Previously in VB4 there was no way to convert ? to a automatically, or even to strip them from the URL altogether.

This mod adds those options. It has a built in translation table for the most commonly used accented characters. It also allows you to specify custom translations if there are additional letters you want to translate to their English/Latin equivalents.

It also includes a final option to simply strip (remove) any special characters it can't translate.

I am marking this Beta as I have tested it and run in on my own forum, www.qapla.com, but I have not tested it extensively.

You must have VB 4.1.10 or above for this to work, it will not work on older versions.

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this. :)
Donations always appreciated. :up:
Nominate MOTM if you LOVE it! ;)

beautiful work. congratulations..

Looks great, thank you :)

tagged

I wonder how this will work on nginx

Will this affect URL's for sites with vBSEO?

Installed in test forum, it works like a charm! I was waiting for something like this since I started using vBulletin, nominated for MOTM.

installed under test

thank you sir

You don't want to use this if you are already using vBSEO.

What he said. If you are using VBSEO don't use this mod- I think VBSEO already does this for you...

I should probably add that message in the top post.

Thank you all... If we go a couple weeks without major bugs I'll take it out of Beta- just didn't have time to do extensive testing, wasn't expecting 4.1.10 to be released so soon. :D

Exellent product, nominated as well. :D

Finally
Thanks .. this is great

I was using basic links and I converted the links to advance after I installed this great mod but there is two issue:

1- When I copy and past the link in any post, I is appearing again like this
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1326552849

but there is no issue when I click on the link where I got the correct link.


2- If I enter any thread from the old basic link such as:
http://www.domain.com/forum/showthread.php?t=276953

The link is automatically converting to the advance link, but like this only:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1326552849

How are you copying and pasting the link in #1- what is your copy source? The browser address bar? Can you paste a link here using the [code] bb code?

3) When you say auto convert do you mean it changes in your address bar from the old basic to the new advanced before the page even loads?

Working great in live forum, I can finally sit down and relax, my links are fine without using an expensive solution like vBSEO... Is there any way to do the same thing in cms articles meta description?

Also, when I copy the link and paste it here I face the same bug, like this:
While when I copy it from the address bar it was as shown in the screen shot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/01/38.jpg


Yes, you can try to enter this link:
www.qapla.com/mods/showthread.php?t=139

You will notice that the link will change in your address bar to:
http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...-de-los-perros

In your forum it is perfect .. but in my forum (Arabic lang.) when I enter any thread using the old basic link, then It changes to the new advance link but only like this:
It should be:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/01/38.jpg

Ah, In your Friendly URL settings (the built in ones) look at the Enforce Canonical URL options...

Turn it off (No) for registered users and Off for guests... The defaults are Yes and Standard.

This looks to be one great ad on BOP. Congrats. Voted and Nominated :) I currently have vBSEO Installed on both of the boards I own however if I ever stop using vBSEO I would definitely use this.

1 Question though, for those who are on a shared hosting plan, does this mod increase CPU load and take up a good amount of grunt like it vBSEO?

No this is a very lightweight mod... I use it and I'm on shared hosting with no ill effects. It's really just a few lines of php code.

Its not working on my site in 4.1.10

What is happening?

Can I get a link to your site?

Amazing. There is no problem with Turkish chars. It's working at windows servers too (tested).

this work on 4.2 ???

yes

Thanks, I have installed it on 4.1.12 an worx.
GREAT for HUNGARIAN friendly URLs!

Isnt this thing is by default in vb 4.2?

The purpose of your mod is to re write the links in friendly url but i found a default option in vb 4.2 name friendly urls and in that if we select Advanced Friendly URLs it does the same what your mod do so i am confused should i have to install this mod on vb 4.2 or not?

This mod doesn't make "friendly" URLs... it makes friendly URLs better.

It removes many special characters and non-latin characters from URLs- some people believe doing this is better for SEO... I personally do not know if it is better or not but someone asked for something like this so I made it.

I have no real argument for or against using this one.

Like it says in the description it's for things like this:

thanks for the replied got your point and un installed it also :)

Thank you- Please use the "Mark as Installed" link in the top post.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/09/18.jpg

:p i have already done this bro i know this and again click un installed but tagged it for future if i needed :)

Awesome mod! I just have one problem - when a sitemap for blogs is being generated, UTF-8 characters are turned into weird mess. Everything else is fine. Could you please tell me how to fix it? Thanks for your time.

yes for me work in vb 4.2 pch level 3

Never heard of this issue... Are you sure if the mod is disabled the sitemap URLs are correct?

if so can you please paste in an example blog title causing the issue.

I sent a PM with more details, thanks for your time.

vb3 please?
it is super hacks.

Sorry but VB3 doesn't have "friendly URLs" so this isn't an option.

Can i make it strip periods and add spaces? That is what im having trouble trying to do

No, not designed to strip periods or add spaces to URLs.

very nice and helpful .. great mod
thanks

working fine 4.2.1

can i use it to translate words ?

like : "العربية"
translate to "Arabic"

No, it won't translate words just individual characters.