vbRanking revised

You might know the vbRanking plugin for vBulletin 3.5.x. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95265)
This one is a complete rewrite.

The plugin will regenrate links to a new format (e.g: showthread-goto_newpost-t_27730.html).
Webspiders, like the GoogleBot, will then parse the whole page and generate better search indexes from your forum.

• does correctly handle "all" arguments
• Less RewriteRules, less preg_replaces
• Should do better performance-wise.
• Only regenerates links for GUEST (i.e. all spiders)

Requirements

• vB3.5
• mod_rewrite
• No active vbRanking from other vendor(s).

License
? 2006 by Nils Maier
The GNU General Public License (GPL)

Homepage
http://celebnamer.celebworld.ws/stuff/vbRanking/

Installation

1. Install the RewriteRule stuff (upload and/or merge upload/.htaccess)
2. Install the plugin (upload/product_*.xml)
3. Done!

Code
(just as a reference the code from the plugin and from .htaccess).

Code is dead simple.

PHP Code:

<?php
/*
(C) 2006 by Nils Maier
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
*/

function _c_vBRanking_replace($in)
{
    return sprintf(
        '%s-%s.html%s',
        $in[1],
        preg_replace(array('/(&amp;|&(?!quot;|lt;|gt;))/', '/=/'), array('-', '_'), $in[2]),
        $in[3]
    );
}
function vBRanking($in)
{
    return preg_replace_callback('-(<a.*href="(?!\w+:).*)\.php\?(.*)(#|")-Ums', '_c_vBRanking_replace', $in);
}
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    $output = vBRanking($output);
}
?>

Rewrite Rules:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.+?)_(.*?)\.html$ $1.html?$2=$3 [N,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [QSA]

Notes
Beta version.
No support (maybe you'll get some if I have a nice day)

[Lady Divus]

Thank you for the hack, i will install it later on. Sounds interesting -

Lady Divus

[testnutzer123]

Originally Posted by Lady Divus

Reserved!

huh?

[kurtbarker]

just to clarify mate... does this ONLY rewrite the links for guests... coz I like the idea but saw it pointless for actual members...

also, is it easy and clean to uninstall if required?

and that reserved post is funny, LOL

there is a massive vBrewrite which is good, but I reckon a little too big at the moment...

thanks

[testnutzer123]

Originally Posted by kurtbarker

...
also, is it easy and clean to uninstall if required?
...

You may deactivate/uninstall the plugin anytime.

The RewriteRule stuff however might be left in then.
It shouldn't cause harm and furthermore regenerated links still work (eg. if a guest copy/paste'd such link somewhere).

[redspider]

Originally Posted by Lady Divus

Reserved!

maybe question come later but will be hard to find .



anyway nice hack will try later in one of my site to compare with other similar seo .

[maroceve]

yes i d like to hear some more reviews cause vrewrite is causing a lot of problems in my site...

[Barakat]

it makes a server enternal error ? and wont work ...


2 what is that code ? or to put it

Code is dead simple.

PHP Code:

<?php 
/* 
(C) 2006 by Nils Maier 
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php 
*/ 

function _c_vBRanking_replace($in) 
{ 
    return sprintf( 
        '%s-%s.html%s', 
        $in[1], 
        preg_replace(array('/(&amp;|&(?!quot;|lt;|gt;))/', '/=/'), array('-', '_'), $in[2]), 
        $in[3] 
    ); 
} 
function vBRanking($in) 
{ 
    return preg_replace_callback('-(<a.*href="(?!\w+:).*)\.php\?(.*)(#|")-Ums', '_c_vBRanking_replace', $in); 
} 
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) 
{ 
    $output = vBRanking($output); 
} 
?>

[testnutzer123]

Originally Posted by Barakat

it makes a server enternal error ? and wont work ...

The RewriteRule stuff might cause 500 when Apache is not correctly configured.
a) You need to have mod_rewrite installed, and it must be properly configured, i.e. FollowSymLinks.
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...ml#rewriterule (esp. the "Note: Enabling rewrites in per-directory context" paragraph).

Originally Posted by Barakat

2 what is that code ? or to put it
...

That code is simply the plugin code that gets installed.
No need to install it manually

[Lady Divus]

Originally Posted by kurtbarker

and that reserved post is funny, LOL

Ok, did i say something stupid?

re?served
Pronunciation: (ri-z?rvd'), [key]
?adj.
1. kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.

Is there a problem with reserving a hack for later use? Oh well, i must be missing something. Can someone fill me in? I guess i forgot to wash the word stupid off my forehead when i showered this morning...Awaiting my crucifiction -

Lady Divus