Miscellaneous Hacks - External URL Redirects in framed page

URL Redirect for vBulletin is a simple way to keep your users grounded to your site. All external URLs will be displayed in a frame with your logo above.

Installation is simple and fast. Simply import the product (product-igusto_urlredirect.xml) and upload the ext.php file to your main forum directory.

How is this product different from other similar products released in the past?

It is true that other people have released similar products in the past. The main differences are as follows:

• no code changes - other vBulletin hacks required you to change core files in order to make this work properly.
• released as a product - other vBulletin hacks were not released as a simple importable product
• No footprint - when you uninstall this product, there are no residual footprints. This has not been the case with other versions of this utility released to vBulletin previously.
• Will distinguisth internal and external urls - Instead of displaying internal urls with the header, this plugin will evaluate the url and determine if it is the same as the host site. If it is, no banner will be displayed.

The product consists of one template (urlredirect_page) and one plugin. The plugin will change all external urls posted in forum posts to the new ext.php file. The template (urlredirect_page) is the header that will be displayed at the top of your redirect page.

Inside of the header you will find text that looks like this:

<!--Google Ads here-->

Replace that text with your google adsense javascript, or another ad generator.

I've tested this on 3.5.7 and 3.6.4. It works fine on both systems.

if you find it not working, check the following first:

• Ensure that the plugin named "url_redirect parser" is enabled.
• Ensure that you uploaded the file ext.php into your forum directory

Brought to you by the folks at www.igusto.net

Changelog

v1.0
Recently removed security flaw. Please update your ext.php file

[tiger]

Instead of "leaving BOARDNAME..."
Is there a way to put the thread name as the title?

[simalert]

Excellent hack and exactly what I was looking for.

Just one problem, it puts the frame on if someone goes from my forum to my main site via a link on the forum, is there a way to set certain domains to be excluded?

So if someone clicks a link on the forum at http://forum.simalert.com could I set it so that it doesn't put the frame on anything in www.simalert.com domain? So www.simalert.com/360.html wouldn't be framed but any other domains would?

This would make it perfect for me.

Thanks

[The Finman]

Originally Posted by SiMateoAko

Thanks for the heads up.

The next version in a few weeks will be completely reworked and compatible with vbanonymiser.

Thanks SiMateoAko! :up:

[simalert]

I've found another problem (sorry).

My members started complaining when the Ebay section on my forum started having problems. All their links comes up with the frame, but it seems to trim Ebay URLs down which causes the item not to show.

A random example URL would be

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...7786&rd=1&rd=1

which is trimmed down by this mod to

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1

this means that if I use this on my site, the Ebay section can no longer be used for my users to list their auctions and that got me quite a few complaints in the support sections

I've had to disable this mod temporarily, is there any chance of a fix for this please?

(If a fix isn't possible, perhaps my suggestion 2 posts up about having a domain exclusion where the frame's not applied would also work here. Solves the problem of framing your own local site and also would fix the Ebay issue).

This is a really good mod and one that I've searched for a long time for one that works well. This works perfectly apart from the above, so if this could be fixed I'd definitely use it again and rate it highly.

Thanks

[itrends]

Doesnt work on my vbadvanced portal front page. Works in the forums, but not on the portal. Any chance of a fix?

[DPSR]

Any chance of excluding one site links?? (that 2nd site actually belongs to me, so i don't want top frames for links to my 2nd site)..anybody know how to do this?

[simalert]

If you look 2 posts back I'm having similar issues.

Just seeing if SiMateoAko can do this, if not might have a play with the code but I'm not really in to changing mods myself.

[Kihon Kata]

Installed! Can certain forums be excluded?

[Kihon Kata]

I guess no support for this mod.

[simalert]

It's ticked at the top, but I don't think it is either. Anyone care to have a go at this?