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 waza

does this also exist for vb 3.0.7 ?? thx,
seba

I did write a version for vB3.0.7 but I'm afraid I'd rather not release it for old versions now.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I was just wondering how you were testing it out Note it's marked as beta still. Thanks for your feedback on the bugs. I'm going to look into them right away.

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/f2-ge...iscussion.html

Have a look at that..

[kall]

Aaaand...Heres a shot of some subforums. They're getting duplicated or something. I haven't modified any of the subforumbit templates.

*edit* removed attachement

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Link14716

So do I. Following that logic, if Jelsoft does make a CMS, it would be classified as a code mod even though it would use the plugin system and not modify any code. (This post ignores the fact that an official Jelsoft addon wouldn't be released at vBulletin.org, of course, but it's just an example.)

Note to vB.org staff: It doesn't modify code, therefore it is not a code modification. Please, can we get some logic in this?

i think everyones forgetting that even the plugin's require the uploading of the xml file

[Dean C]

Many thanks kall, could you point me in the direction of the mod you are using for your forum images ? Thankyou

[kall]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Many thanks kall, could you point me in the direction of the mod you are using for your forum images ? Thankyou

I think it was sabe's hack originally..

In forumhome_forumbit_level*post , find:

<td><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" alt="" width="9" height="1" border="0" /></td>

			<td>

After, add:

<if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(41,9,3,37,38,8,999))">
<td><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/forumhome/$forum[forumid].gif" alt="$forum[title]" border="0" vspace="2 px" hspace="5px" width="40" height="39" align="left"/></a>
</td>
</if>

...sorta. I had a devil of a job getting it just right, but there's the general gist.

[TrentTech]

Dean C, random copies of my sub-forums names are showing up in the sub-form list in plain text, but this is only on my forum index, because I have it show sub-forums (like how vBulletin.com/forum does)

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by TrentTech

Dean C, random copies of my sub-forums names are showing up in the sub-form list in plain text, but this is only on my forum index, because I have it show sub-forums (like how vBulletin.com/forum does)

I'm going to look into that in an hour or so after my lunch Thanks for the input.

[akanevsky]

Hmmm.... f-forumtitle.. And what if the forumtitle isn't written in english letters? Will it convert?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

Hmmm.... f-forumtitle.. And what if the forumtitle isn't written in english letters? Will it convert?

No this is only for english boards