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

[lazydesis]

Phew .. finally was able to figure out the problem with the internal links not working.

It has to do with vBSEO.

In vBSEO settings, there is one setting called as "Add Thread Titles"

If this is set to anything other than "Do not add thread titles" we will get into the problem of internal URLs not working with the Redirects.

Just set this option to "Do not add thread titles" and the redirect starts to work again ^ ^

YAY!

[SamirDarji]

Glad to see you got it working...and that I guessed right.

[CRDeveloper]

Would do this work or can be updated to vb4?

[egyptsons]

Originally Posted by CRDeveloper

Would do this work or can be updated to vb4?

it's not working with vb4
it give this error

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: urlredirect_page in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3984

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by egyptsons

it's not working with vb4
it give this error

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: urlredirect_page in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3984

This mod will probably would need to be completely re-written for vb4, but it's not that complicated. I modified it heavily for use on vb3 and I'm no programmer by any means.

[PEPITO69]

Hi,
Im my opinion, this could be good for SEO or bad, it depends. Having no real external links may be not good.