Re-naming of thread links

[Chris Gwynne]

Hey all

Is the following possible, or has it been created?

Currently, with vB2 when you post a thread you get a link of showthread.php?s=&threadid=1.

Is there anyway I can change this so it'd be /threads/thread_title/.

Obviously this would use htacces and hacking of the files, but is this possible and if so, how?


Regards,
Chris

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Chris Gwynne

Hey all

Is the following possible, or has it been created?

Currently, with vB2 when you post a thread you get a link of showthread.php?s=&threadid=1.

Is there anyway I can change this so it'd be /threads/thread_title/.

Obviously this would use htacces and hacking of the files, but is this possible and if so, how?


Regards,
Chris

mod_rewirte

[Chris Gwynne]

Yes I know, I already mentioned using htaccess.

However, from what I know, there's no way to grab the title of the thread, it'd be able to grab the thread ID I'd imagine, but not thread title...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Chris Gwynne

Yes I know, I already mentioned using htaccess.

However, from what I know, there's no way to grab the title of the thread, it'd be able to grab the thread ID I'd imagine, but not thread title...

Well you would run into problems in the long run, as thread names can be dupilcate :/

[Chris Gwynne]

Sucks, I didn't think about that. Isn't ther any feature or vB hack to disallow dupe thread titles?

[Zachery]

I think you could add this, but the larger the database gets the longer it would check tot ake dupe threads :/

[Chris Gwynne]

It's all against me .

Thanks for your help. Gonna go with the /thread/thread_id/ method, that'd be better