Miscellaneous Hacks - Friendlier URLs by BOP5

Current Version: 0.9 Beta

The purpose of this mod is to make "friendly" URLs in VB4 even better.

DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE VBSEO - It should already do this.

Demo: Test Thread on Qapla.com

For SEO purposes it is often best that only standard English characters and numbers are in URLs.

If you have a forum where non-English languages are used and you have letters with accents or other symbols in them they would become part of the links to your threads and your site would be indexed like that. However when a user searches for something like "Jagermeister" they will usually type "Jagermeister" into the search and not the technically correct "J?germeister."

Previously in VB4 there was no way to convert ? to a automatically, or even to strip them from the URL altogether.

This mod adds those options. It has a built in translation table for the most commonly used accented characters. It also allows you to specify custom translations if there are additional letters you want to translate to their English/Latin equivalents.

It also includes a final option to simply strip (remove) any special characters it can't translate.

I am marking this Beta as I have tested it and run in on my own forum, www.qapla.com, but I have not tested it extensively.

You must have VB 4.1.10 or above for this to work, it will not work on older versions.

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[fai99al99]

i have add this to the $bop_reps = array

PHP Code:

$bop_reps = array('العربية'=>'arabic', 'المكتبة'=>'library'); 


http://www.xxxxx.com/forum/showthread.php/35618-العربية-المكتبة
http://www.xxxxx.com/forum/showthread.php/35618-library-arabic

and it did translate the words fine
is this will cause any problems ?

[BirdOPrey5]

That is fine I misunderstood.

I thought you meant will it translate like Google Translate.

What you did is technically a replacement, not a translation, you can do replacements you just have to do each one manually.

[fai99al99]

there's a little problem

it doesn't

strip (remove) any special characters it can't translate.

in RSS
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no,its working fine
my mistake

[Bubble #5]

4.2.1

Seems to work well on our forum. Great job BOP :up:

[thetechgenius]

I'm using DBSEO by DBTECH, do I need this mod? Will it even work with DBSEO, or will it break my Forum URL's?

[BirdOPrey5]

I'm afraid I've never tested it with DBSEO but I would strongly imagine you do not need it- I doubt it would work.

[Darkman7030]

have a problem

http://domian.de/forum/forumdisplay.php?38Movieaspan-classshade-stylefont-size10px-titleThemenBeitrage-1111spanVSa

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236960

also use the think the error comes from what kan do now?

[BirdOPrey5]

If you disable the subforum manager does the problem go away? If so I would say they are incompatible.

[Darkman7030]

Is there no way to fix that?

[BirdOPrey5]

Probably, but sorry, I'm not working on this mod anymore. I have set it to be re-usable code in case someone else wants to work on it, they are welcome.