Shorter Profile Url

[Shaliza]

Nice one. I'm going to try it. Much simpler than the other method that was posted.

[Zamurick X]

Also does this regex support numbers? It appears it only supports a-z as the first character of the user name.

Try changing it to:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ member.php?username=$1 [L]

Although I'm not sure if it already does support all cases as well as numbers. Just a suggestion. Once again, thank you.

[CallieJo]

Originally Posted by Zamurick X

Also does this regex support numbers? It appears it only supports a-z as the first character of the user name.

Try changing it to:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ member.php?username=$1 [L]

Although I'm not sure if it already does support all cases as well as numbers. Just a suggestion. Once again, thank you.

Great suggestion! Thanks for helping out I've updated the article to reflect your suggestion.

[CallieJo]

Here is the code I'm currently using (I have other stuff in it but this will pertain to this article):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ index.php
RewriteRule (^[-_A-Za-z0-9\ ]*$) member.php?&username=$1

I just wanted to make note that you must use a trailing slash at the end of your links to directories or you will get an error message saying that user does not exist. For example, if you have a gallery and you link to it like yoursite.com/gallery then you will need to change the url in your navigation to yoursite.com/gallery/ so the mod rewrite doesn't treat it like a username. Check your navigation to all areas of your site once you've used the mod rewrite code.

If you are using 3.7.0 beta 4 and want to change the url in member profiles to reflect their new profile url so they know what it is...

Edit the template "memberinfo_block_contactinfo" and find this code:

<dd><a href="$prepared[profileurl]">$prepared[profileurl]</a></dd>

and change it to:

<dd><a href="http://www.yoursite.com/$userinfo[username]">http://www.yoursite.com/$userinfo[username]</a></dd>

You will need to change yoursite.com to that of your forum. So if your forum is yoursite.net/forum or forums.yoursite.org or whatever, then be sure to change it as so.

[cfitzarl]

I would suggest using:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ member.php?username=$1 [L]

When you have (.*), that can stand for any letter, number, or symbol.

[CallieJo]

Originally Posted by cfitzarl

I would suggest using:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ member.php?username=$1 [L]

When you have (.*), that can stand for any letter, number, or symbol.

Thank you for contributing. Much appreciated.

[cheat-master30]

This works for most people on my forum, but not for any with special characters in their name, like myself. Any way to fix this?

[NeverBored]

Originally Posted by cheat-master30

This works for most people on my forum, but not for any with special characters in their name, like myself. Any way to fix this?

Anyone know how to fix this issue?

[cheat-master30]

I do, because one of the supporters of this, Zamurick, actually fixed the problem for me. I'll ask if it can be posted here.

[NeverBored]

Originally Posted by cheat-master30

I do, because one of the supporters of this, Zamurick, actually fixed the problem for me. I'll ask if it can be posted here.

Great, I hope so... It should be a simple fix from my understanding, though I have no idea how to do it.