[dn lodge]

Dean, you may want to put this in the donwload file incase anyone else needs to do what I had to do for any reason.

The following insturctions makes...

http://www.dnlodge.com/f14-get-appraised.html
be displayed as...
http://www.dnlodge.com/forum-14.html

I had to do this because I got vb after the PR yupdate, and I wqanted my catagories to have at least a PR of one, and I didnt want to wait 3 more months, so I changed the code to give me the url my mod_rewrite did in my old phpbb.

Heres how I did it...

Here is the .htaccess that is included in this mod.....

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

Here is our first example..... (in .htaccess)

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)- ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
..................1....2......3...........4....... .................................................

1. the "f" at #1 creates the f in "f14-get-appraised.html"
2. the "([0-9]+)" created the number id of the forum "f14-get-appraised.html"
3. the "-" creates the dash in the url "f14-get-appraised.html"
4. ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+) creates the name of the forum using the alphabet "f14-get-appraised.html"

To make it display as forum-14.html all I did was edit that line to make it like this...
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]

and then I edited some lines in the XML file to make the forum home display the right url. If you dont do this, you will get a page cannot be found. I dont hvae time to explain what I've done, so if anyone else want to continue for me.... go ahead.

If you want to see the final results in what I did, visit www.dnlodge.com and you can click on one of the forum catagories to see i renamed the URL.

-Brandon