Miscellaneous Hacks - Friendlier URLs by BOP5

Current Version: 0.9 Beta

The purpose of this mod is to make "friendly" URLs in VB4 even better.

DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE VBSEO - It should already do this.

Demo: Test Thread on Qapla.com

For SEO purposes it is often best that only standard English characters and numbers are in URLs.

If you have a forum where non-English languages are used and you have letters with accents or other symbols in them they would become part of the links to your threads and your site would be indexed like that. However when a user searches for something like "Jagermeister" they will usually type "Jagermeister" into the search and not the technically correct "J?germeister."

Previously in VB4 there was no way to convert ? to a automatically, or even to strip them from the URL altogether.

This mod adds those options. It has a built in translation table for the most commonly used accented characters. It also allows you to specify custom translations if there are additional letters you want to translate to their English/Latin equivalents.

It also includes a final option to simply strip (remove) any special characters it can't translate.

I am marking this Beta as I have tested it and run in on my own forum, www.qapla.com, but I have not tested it extensively.

You must have VB 4.1.10 or above for this to work, it will not work on older versions.

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[lodos0677]

beautiful work. congratulations..

[fiatforever]

Looks great, thank you

[OldSchoolDSL]

tagged

I wonder how this will work on nginx

[SuperTaz]

Will this affect URL's for sites with vBSEO?

[Morpheus NS]

Installed in test forum, it works like a charm! I was waiting for something like this since I started using vBulletin, nominated for MOTM.

[Dr.osamA]

installed under test

thank you sir

[thecore762]

Originally Posted by SuperTaz

Will this affect URL's for sites with vBSEO?

You don't want to use this if you are already using vBSEO.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by SuperTaz

Will this affect URL's for sites with vBSEO?

Originally Posted by thecore762

You don't want to use this if you are already using vBSEO.

What he said. If you are using VBSEO don't use this mod- I think VBSEO already does this for you...

I should probably add that message in the top post.

Thank you all... If we go a couple weeks without major bugs I'll take it out of Beta- just didn't have time to do extensive testing, wasn't expecting 4.1.10 to be released so soon.

[Juggernaut]

Exellent product, nominated as well.