Miscellaneous Hacks - MySpace type User Profile Link

Tested with vb 3.6.7 and 3.6.8
Tested on IE7 and FF2

Ok lets say your site is:

http://Example.com/Forums/


And the path to members profiles is even longer:

http://Example.com/Forums/member.php...xampleUserName


Well lets give your members a smaller and easy link to remember.


How about:

http://Example.com/Username

Oh ya thats alot better huh?

Ok well this is how you do it.


Add this to the .htaccess in root of example.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1 [R]

Replace this:

http://Example.com/Forums/


With the link to your forums.


All members and guests will be able to go to:

http://Example.com/ThereUserName

And automatically be forwarded to the profile of the user name they entered after the site link.


Thats it just one easy .htaccess file edit and your done.


NOTE:
Want to use a diffrent domain like:

http://ExampleTwo.com/UserName

Just add the .htaccess file to that domain instead

just make sure that whats in red below links to your site

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1



Enjoy and click install if you use this mod.

Also Some Credit to Eikinskjaldi for pointing me in the right way to get this working.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by iogames

Now I see! well I will add the explanation to users

if you do the first part of this addon for this in this post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....36&postcount=2

then they should be able to figure it out

but ya hope you like it

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I have one site, but with multiple url's pointing to it:
mymainurl.com
mysecondurl.com

I want to display mymainurl.com/forum/member.php?=member.php?username=ExampleUserName
as
mysecondurl.com/username

Is this possible?

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

yes thats the way i have mine set up

just add the .httaccess file in the other domain you have and set it to go to the domain you want it to

I do not have different directories per url. It's all the same. My profiles can be accessed on both:
mymainurl.com/forum/member.php?u=1
and
mysecondurl.com/forum/member.php?u=1

It is the same page. How do I set this in .htaccess?

[stwilson]

Does this work in 3.7B5? I tried but no go and was not sure if I was doing something wrong.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

i dont know i dont have 3.7

im would imagine it would though

[TCE Killa]

If you want this to show up in your welcome box instead of by your navbar... Then in your navbar template, find:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if> 


And add below:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['member']">Your Profile URL: <a href="http://YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]">YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]</a>
</if> 


Changing 'YourDomain' with your forums domain name.

See screenshot in what I mean.

[jeepcircle]

Is there a way to allow this only for people in certain usergroups?

[MiahBeSmokin420]

not realy i dont know why you would want to do that though

but im sure you could hide that link to user groups that way they dont know it is there for them

but doing that would just not be cool

[caocao1]

thanks for your post

[Alfa1]

MiahBeSmokin420; do you have a solution to my question above?

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

MiahBeSmokin420; do you have a solution to my question above?

sorry missed that post

just add the httaccess file to both domains and then just point them to where your foums are installed i guess

but from the way you said that there it looks like you have 2 diffrent forums on 2 diffrent domains cause i dont see how you can have the same forum with 2 domains without having one of the domains redirect to the other

so honestly idk man