Miscellaneous Hacks - vBSEO-style friendly urls using vB_Friendly_Url mechanism

This plugin enables the following url scheme:

vbulletin/forum-name/
vbulletin/forum-name/index10.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/members/admin.html

This is close to what vBSEO 3.5.2 generates in its default configuration.
he original goal of this plugin was to allow ditching vBSEO during vB3-vB4 upgrade without suffering a massive link rot.
At this moment, this plugin may be used as a starting point to implement some specific link scheme, but it's hardly useful by itself unless you have that particual vBSEO version; vBSEO 3.6.0 uses different link scheme not compatible with this one.

The plugin hooks to the built-in url generation/parsing mechanism of vB4, overriding vB_Friendly_Url_* classes, unlike vBSEO which does whole-page preg replacements even in vB4. It works within the normal vB data flow, so it's small, simple, and quite fast. It's also very likely to play well along with other plugins like Cerberus.

The links generated by this plugin do not always match those of vBSEO. There are slight differences in handling non-alphanumeric characters, and probably other issues too. However, it should accept all vBSEO thread links, in the worst case (CANON_STRICT) issuing some 301 redirects.
Most of vBSEO configuration options are not supported. In particular, link structure is hard-coded. If you need something unusual, you may use this as a template, but you'll need to tweak it to get urls you want.
Blog urls are not implemented; the site I wrote this for does not use vB blogs.
Calendar urls and anything else not handled by vB_Friendly_Url is not supported.

Configuration resides on the standard Friendly Urls page.
The plugin can work in modes other than FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE. It's not really indented to do it, it's more of a fallback option, but it's implemented. In FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED mode urls look like this:

vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name.html
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name-10.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/member.php/admin.html

The plugin allows custom forum slugs, i.e. replacing forum-name with something else without changing the forum title. It's not pretty, but it works.

Sample .htaccess rules for FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE:

RewriteBase /url/path/to/vbulletin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# Use these two only if you have friendlyurl_acceptvb4 enabled
RewriteRule ^threads/(.*) showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*) forumdisplay.php [L]

RewriteRule ^members/([^/]+).html$ member.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/index\d*.html$ forumdisplay.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^/]+.html$ showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/?$ forumdisplay.php [L]

Adjust ^members/ to match your friendlyurl_memberdir if necessary.

Tested on vB 4.0.3 PL8 and vB 4.2.0. Should work on most 4.x.x versions.
Feel free to post bug reports, suggestions etc. in this thread.

[final kaoss]

mind sharing?

[Amaury]

Our owner installed this, and now we are getting this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in /home3/khmediaf/public_html/includes/init.php(336) : eval()'d code on line 183

Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_Friendly_Url_Error::get_url() in /home3/khmediaf/public_html/includes/functions.php on line 7708

We can access our Admin CP login panel via a direct URL, but we still cannot login because of the error in order to access Manage Products and disable it.

Any ideas?

[ellenthompson]

Sir i got 404 error please help

[final kaoss]

on which page did you receive 404?

[dreamygirl]

Any help is appreciated. I am on 4.2.0 PL3. Upon installing, it gives an error. The error starts with

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in 


and IIRC it says line 46. I thought I found an extra ) in one of the hooks plugins. I hoped to find an extra ( and make the error stop. After removing the extra ), it has the same error, but with line 43.

[final kaoss]

Might be a long shot but try this php checker.
http://phpcodechecker.com/

[armagan]

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[ozzy47]

To disable the plugin/hook system open your config.php which can be found in your forumroot/includes directory

Just below

<?php

enter

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

and save the file.

Then you can get into your ACP and disable the mod.

Then enable the plugin/hook system again, either remove the line again or simply comment that line out. To do so, add two forward slashes " / " so it will look like

// define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Next time you would like to disable the plugin/hook system again
you simply have to remove those two " / ".

[ShortBuss]

Just installed this mod, so far so good. Adding a line for content.php helped as I'm running the suite.

RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php [L]

There's a few things I need to work out still. The lists/category hits a 404 but I should have that under control soon
Gone Fishing Forum

Thanks a ton for this mod! With vbseo on the outs I was wondering how I was going to get the tidy urls I wanted.

[ShortBuss]

Sure nuff, adding a couple more lines to htaccess gets things rolling right along

RewriteRule ^blog/(.*) blog.php [L]
RewriteRule ^list/category/(.*) list.php [L]

Thanks again for the mod!