Miscellaneous Hacks - MySpace type User Profile Link

Tested with vb 3.6.7 and 3.6.8
Tested on IE7 and FF2

Ok lets say your site is:

http://Example.com/Forums/


And the path to members profiles is even longer:

http://Example.com/Forums/member.php...xampleUserName


Well lets give your members a smaller and easy link to remember.


How about:

http://Example.com/Username

Oh ya thats alot better huh?

Ok well this is how you do it.


Add this to the .htaccess in root of example.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1 [R]

Replace this:

http://Example.com/Forums/


With the link to your forums.


All members and guests will be able to go to:

http://Example.com/ThereUserName

And automatically be forwarded to the profile of the user name they entered after the site link.


Thats it just one easy .htaccess file edit and your done.


NOTE:
Want to use a diffrent domain like:

http://ExampleTwo.com/UserName

Just add the .htaccess file to that domain instead

just make sure that whats in red below links to your site

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1



Enjoy and click install if you use this mod.

Also Some Credit to Eikinskjaldi for pointing me in the right way to get this working.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Extra little things you can do with this:

Find in navbar template:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Directly Above or if you have a top nav bar then add above that:

 <if condition="$show['member']">
<b>My Url: <a href="http://Example.com/$bbuserinfo[username]">Example.com/$bbuserinfo[username]</a>
</b></if>

Which will add:

My Url: Example.com/UserName

Note: this will only be view able to members.

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In Register template find:

<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
                <strong>$vbphrase[username]</strong>:<br />

Add above:

<BR><strong>Your user name will also be your permanent link to your profile and can not be changed.<BR>Example: http://Example.com/YourUserName</strong><BR><BR>

Changing Example.com to the domain you are going to use to shorten profile links with.

Which will add a small note during registration letting soon to be new members know that there user name will also be used as part of the link to there profile.

Hope that this info is useful to you and remember to click install if you use this mod.

[sheryjutt]

Any ScreenShot Please

[MiahBeSmokin420]

how are you going to have a screen shot for a link???

the closest your are going to get to a screen shot is look at my signature on here and you will see that it says my profile link

and then once you click on the it will redirect you to my profile

but my site is closed right now while we are updating alot of things

but its a link you ready dont need a screen shot

just upload the .httaccess to your public_html after you put replace the link with your forum link like it says and then just go to that domain /yourusersname

[MiahBeSmokin420]

also if your user name has a space make sure you type the space in the url when you try to go to it or else it will say some dumb stuff

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by sheryjutt

Any ScreenShot Please

[CallieJo]

What is the difference with this and this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165986
Thanks

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by CallieJo2

What is the difference with this and this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165986
Thanks

Different author

That other one will not allow usernames with special characters, only numbers and letters.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Different author

That other one will not allow usernames with special characters, only numbers and letters.

bingo

[CallieJo]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Different author

That other one will not allow usernames with special characters, only numbers and letters.

I see...very clever

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

bingo

Good work!

Does this also change the url noted in the profile to reflect the new url?