Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[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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[Dean C]

Originally Posted by ILTK

Subforums as links in the cell headers on forumhome still doesn't work.

After some messing around with different settings, as far as I can tell, as soon as you have a forum where you have it setup so the subforums shows as links in the tablecell below, AND you set the parent forum to 'act as forum=yes' then the rewrite will stop working from that point on.

This setup causes rewrite links to stop working:

Main forum (Act as forum=yes)
-- subforum1 subforum2 subforum 3
(Any forums below this point is also not rewritten no matter what settings)

If I have the same setup and set 'Main forum' in the example above to 'Act as forum=no' then everything works.

Hope this helps a little figuring out this bug.

EDIT: add to the above, if you have any subforum in the above setup where it is a link (Enter an url in 'Forum Link') then it also stops working.

As I have said earlier in the thread, this bug has been fixed in the latest beta. I don't have time to release this beta right now but shall do in the next 1-2 weeks (unless someone wants to do my essays ).

[ILTK]

Originally Posted by Dean C

As I have said earlier in the thread, this bug has been fixed in the latest beta. I don't have time to release this beta right now but shall do in the next 1-2 weeks (unless someone wants to do my essays ).

Ah, sorry I read it as you had updated it allready

[Brandon Sheley]

this look good, i clicked install just so i can track it, more then likely ill try it

i went ahead and installed. .works great thx
and best of all, its not 150$..hehe

[RobK]

There's another bug, so it is no langer possible to join 2 threads in a new on with this extension installed ...

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by RobK

There's another bug, so it is no langer possible to join 2 threads in a new on with this extension installed ...

I'm aware of this, I don't have time to look right now as I'm online in class, but I'm sure there's a nice little plugin location that we can use to solve this problem

[SB2002]

Installed, works perfectly on 3.5.1. I have one question though, on vbadvanced the individual news posts on the main page don't use the optimised code when you click on the news item, is there any way I can fix this or should I just leave it as is?

BTW, i have to say, great hack, thanks for bringing it to the masses for free

[yinyang]

Originally Posted by Nutzz

Got a link yinyang?

Thanks,
Mat

yup, Studio City Forum .

thanks for looking into it. i greatly appreciate it. the forums show up properly, but the threads don't. weird!

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by SB2002

Installed, works perfectly on 3.5.1. I have one question though, on vbadvanced the individual news posts on the main page don't use the optimised code when you click on the news item, is there any way I can fix this or should I just leave it as is?

BTW, i have to say, great hack, thanks for bringing it to the masses for free

The way I optimize this is on a per-need basis. vBadvanced is a third-party script and I have no idea how it works. If someone wants to look into what the THIS_SCRIPT constant is in the vBadvanced file and whether or not it uses its own global.php/init.php, and contributes code which follows the current structure, I'll include it in the release. But i'd rather not get into providing support for third-party addons

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by yinyang

yup, Studio City Forum .

thanks for looking into it. i greatly appreciate it. the forums show up properly, but the threads don't. weird!

Your threads appear rewritten for me.

[gael11]

Sorry if the question have been asked but is it possible to rewrite this letters: ? ? ? because in french theirs are very used. Thanks