vB Easy Archive - Search Engine Spiderable Hack!

Ok, as a lot of users have installed SkuZZy's and mine vB Easy Archive Hack i've decided to release a vB3 Version as well.

As vB3 already comes with an build in Archive System, it's not that needed than it was in vb2, but for all of you, who have installed the vb2 version and don't want to loose their indexed Pages, this one is for you

I'm lazy and therefore will copy the Releasetext of vb2 by SkuZZy.

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_mime. If you don't have mod_mime, you will still be able to install this hack, just read the install.txt for help then.

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demo

To view a demo of this script, visit this site:
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 3.x
mod_mime installed (not absolutelly required, but recommended)
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - It is recommended to have mod_mime installed to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html
If you want to run vb Easy Archive without mod_mie, please look into the install.txt

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Forumlist yes, but threadlist no - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=91
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=153

Credits
SkuZZy aka Adam J. de Jaray, who gets my Special Thanks for his modifications, releasing and of course his Support to my Script's vb2 version. Note, he does not have anything to do with the vb3 version, but without him, there wouldn't have been the vb2 version and therefore i would never have released the one for vb3

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all I ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "install.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Xenon

there is a version for 3.5, but there have been reports it does not work correctly

I don't think this works correctly with 3.0 series either, I've been using this now for over a month and I have yet to see one spider indexing the easy archive pages on my site, even though I have spiders pretty active there lile Goggle, MSN, Yahoo etc...

It just seems as though they don't get indexed at all by spiders for some reason.

[Brandon Sheley]

i hear such great things about the easy archive,, wish I could use it on my forums

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

i hear such great things about the easy archive,, wish I could use it on my forums

It doesnt work Loco.M

I was running it for 2 months, not one was ever spotted in the easy archive even though I have spiders on my site all the time. This was also reported as not working for vB 3.5 also.

But the version created for vB2 works perfect by another user called Teck I think. But this has problems with spiders not going and indexing the pages

[Zia]

wondering which 1 works for 3.5.3 ?

does it supported?

[David_R]

Originally Posted by Xenon

there is a version for 3.5, but there have been reports it does not work correctly

with the code provided in the files for 3.5 version archive was not functioning properly, but with the fixes given by other coders in the thread itself, it works fine now

[tpearl5]

I've noticed that google dropped a large amount of my pages. I'm wondering if this is a penalty for running two archives?

[tpearl5]

Anyone have any idea why I'd be getting this error after upgrading mysql to 4.2 ?

Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.*
FROM post AS post
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(post.postid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'post')
WHERE threadid = 69068
AND visible = 1
AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
ORDER BY post.dateline
LIMIT -200, 200

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-200, 200' at line 8

mysql error number: 1064

[Xenon]

hmm, that has nothing to do with 4.2 but that the pagenumber is invalid if pagenumber is 0 this error will occur

open archive_functions.php

find:

PHP Code:

    $vars = array(
        'id' => $infos[0],
        'pagenumber' => $infos[1]
    ); 


and change into:

PHP Code:

    $vars = array(
        'id' => $infos[0],
        'pagenumber' => max($infos[1], 1)
    ); 


that should help

[tpearl5]

Thanks Xenon! That worked. I wonder why I'm not getting errors on other pages where I have this installed though?

[Xenon]

actually that's a question i wonder my self about...

such an error never appeared before...