Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.

Requirements:

• You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
• This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[Floris]

I use a links category where forums are actually forum links, which is a feature from vbulletin by default.

So titles are for example http://www.vBulletin.com/

which results in invalid page .html files.

[Link14716]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

it actually got moved here i beleive :ermm:

It seems to keep jumping between plugins and code mods. This is a plugin and should be in the plugin forum.

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Link14716

It seems to keep jumping between plugins and code mods. This is a plugin and should be in the plugin forum.

According to the rules by the staff it requires a file upload, therefor is a code mod. I disagree though

[Link14716]

Originally Posted by floris

According to the rules by the staff it requires a file upload, therefor is a code mod. I disagree though

So do I. Following that logic, if Jelsoft does make a CMS, it would be classified as a code mod even though it would use the plugin system and not modify any code. (This post ignores the fact that an official Jelsoft addon wouldn't be released at vBulletin.org, of course, but it's just an example.)

Note to vB.org staff: It doesn't modify code, therefore it is not a code modification. Please, can we get some logic in this?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Link14716

It seems to keep jumping between plugins and code mods. This is a plugin and should be in the plugin forum.

I think we need a new category: Jumpin

[kall]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Can I see a live example kall?

You can...PM me when you want me to throw my board into chaos for you.

*addendum* Aaaand...if you have commas in your forum titles, the resultant URL has them too, rendering it unusable.

*addendum2* Quick Style chooser appears to be unusable?

[waza]

does this also exist for vb 3.0.7 ?? thx,
seba

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Link14716

So do I. Following that logic, if Jelsoft does make a CMS, it would be classified as a code mod even though it would use the plugin system and not modify any code. (This post ignores the fact that an official Jelsoft addon wouldn't be released at vBulletin.org, of course, but it's just an example.)

Note to vB.org staff: It doesn't modify code, therefore it is not a code modification. Please, can we get some logic in this?

We're having a bit of trouble classifying everything at the moment. Give us some time

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by kall

You can...PM me when you want me to throw my board into chaos for you.

*addendum* Aaaand...if you have commas in your forum titles, the resultant URL has them too, rendering it unusable.

*addendum2* Quick Style chooser appears to be unusable?

I was just wondering how you were testing it out Note it's marked as beta still. Thanks for your feedback on the bugs. I'm going to look into them right away.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by waza

does this also exist for vb 3.0.7 ?? thx,
seba

I did write a version for vB3.0.7 but I'm afraid I'd rather not release it for old versions now.