Remove Intermediate Redirection Page

For some odd reason, I didn't see any request for such a feature, although as far as I know, vBulletin is the only bulletin board which uses this useless redirection system. I'm talking about the "Thank you for logging in...", "Thank you for posting...", "Please wait while searching...", etc. pages.

This hack (I'm not even sure you can call it a hack, it's just 1 line of code) will get rid of this page. It works with all the browsers, but just in case a VERY old browser is being used, the original redirection system will be used, so basically you have nothing to lose.

In the admin/functions.php file, find:

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("standardredirect")."\");");

Before it, add:

PHP Code:

header ("Location: $url"); 


[Tommy Boy]

Originally posted by GeorgeofCS
Although it still does redirect it takes so long to do so that 50% of the time my users thought they screwed up.

I highly doubt it is related to removing the redirect page. If you want, you can play with my board, and enjoy the fast reaction time.

[DarkReaper]

What about allowing the user to choose to disable it?

[fonzerelli_79]

what i want to know is why didn't i think of it??

doh!

[nafae]

definately a good idea for a yes/no on the registration page/user cp: "Use Intermediate Redirection pages?" would be great.

[Crinos]

Well, I think the redirect is a novelty way back in the UBB days ... in any case, I've applied it to my test forum and it does give a semblance of "speed" and "responsiveness" ... so I'm applying it to my live forums and see what happens

Thanks

[nafae]

let us know if you get any responses from forum newbies or if it works out smoothly

[JTMON]

I installed this hack. Working great, everything is speedy.

I posted the question over at vbulletin.com and the official reply from Tubedogg was:

"It is used as an alternative to using the Header("Location:xxx"); function of PHP, and to provide information to the user about what is happening, whether their post was successful, etc. It places no indentifiable additional load on the server."

[LuBi]

Maybe we could work out a sciprt like this.

0-99 Posts See redirect page
100 Posts see a special rediect page that will inform them they will never see hti page again unless they choose so in their user cp
101+ Do not see the rediect pages unless checked in user cp

With this code you would have to add something in the user CP and I would leave the default as redirects on but hey who knows, any ideas?

Also at 100 it couldk inform them they are now able to disable the rediect pages, I think that would be better for users.

[nafae]

i think an option when they register, and then they can just change it via usercp if they change their mind.. that would prolly be easier to code anyways...; i dunno :stupid:

[Robert Basil]

Installed on my site with 14,500+ members and working fine!

Thanks for the hack.