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.

[jeepcircle]

Originally Posted by 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

It would be cool if you had a "premium member" group (or something of the like) where they could have there own address like that. Just a thought

[MiahBeSmokin420]

ya that would be cool but unfortunately there is now way that i know of to make a htaccess file have user group permissions seeing as how it is controlled by the server and not vb

[iogames]

Can you add this info on the 'Welcome Email'??? for them not to forget their URLs?

[MiahBeSmokin420]

dont quote me on this but im almost positive what you would add to the the welcome email is:

Your profile url: http://yourdomain.com/$username

that should do it but i would send a test email to your seld before you make that a permant change to the welcome email

[Jongo]

This is an awesome addition to my board, the members love it.

Thanks ever so much for uploading it!

[TCE Killa]

Their is an error with this though, it effects the currently active users/who's online list.

It keeps saying everyone is viewing an error message and looking at a user profile, but no one is infact doing that. I got rid of it from the .htaccess and it is fine again, any way to fix this? Thanks.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by TCE Killa

Their is an error with this though, it effects the currently active users/who's online list.

It keeps saying everyone is viewing an error message and looking at a user profile, but no one is infact doing that. I got rid of it from the .htaccess and it is fine again, any way to fix this? Thanks.

There is no way it could mess with anything in vB

Especially not the WOL

Take a screen shot of the WOL page

[dancue]

Thanks. Nice and simple.

For those of you who want to place a link in your userCP do the following edit in the UserCP_Shell:

find:

$navbar

add below:

<!-- table for MySpace profile link -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

	<td class="tcat" align="center">My URL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="$navclass[signature]" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">
<b><a href="http://YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]">YourDomain.com.com/$bbuserinfo[username]</a>
</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<!-- / table for MySpace profile link -->

edit:
For those of you still using the default vBulletin style replace "$navclass[signature]" with "info" or any other predefined class. Otherwise you will get an error.

[TCE Killa]

I'll get a screenshot tomorrow, but I hope you can help, thanks man.

[TCE Killa]

Heres a screenshot of the problem, and like I'm saying, when I remove the code from .htaccess or whatever it is, it works fine again: