User MOD Rewrite

This is a pretty simple hack but is designed so that you can access members profiles quickly and / or your members can have an easy link to pass around for their user profile.

STEP 1:

If you don't have one already create a file named .htaccess in your forums root directory.

STEP 2:

Paste the following code within that file:

## Altsounds.com Member re-write Hack Version1
## All music fans should check out altsounds.com for lots of free music to listen to!!

# turn the Apache MOD_REWRITE engine on
RewriteEngine On

# this first rule will catch the "blank" entry into the
# Forums directory, taking the user to the main forum page - change as appropriate
RewriteRule ^$ hangout.php

# this next entry will catch everything else and pass
# it to the member.php engine for processing in
# the "member" section
RewriteRule (^[-_A-Za-z0-9\ ]*$) member.php?&username=$1

That's it! My main forum page is hangout.php. So you should change that within the code above to whatever your forum main page is (usually index.php).

Now all your members links to their profile is {link to forum}/{username} or {link to forum}/{userid} e.g. in my websites case http://hangout.altsounds.com/altsounds or will take you directly to the username "altsounds" user profile. If no profile is available (i.e. a member is not registered) you will get the appropriate error message.

Simple but cool. Hope you all enjoy.

[Lpspider]

Yup. Works perfectly.

[Lpspider]

^ doesn't work perfectly. It does sometimes - but it seems that it messed up my main url. www.mysite.com didn't work, whereas www.mysite.com/username or www.mysite.com/index.php did.

Any idea what caused this and if there's a version for 3.5?

EDIT: spoke too soon. I didn't rename it to index.php - however, when I type in my URL it doesn't take me to the homepage, but rather to a page listing the directories, etc. Don't know why.

[TunerNetwork]

k, works pretty good for me. Nice add on. Now...is there a way that we can have it so on the user's profile page, it displays what their profile link would be?

This way they can just copy that, add to their signatures on the site or on other sites etc. Kinda help people see that, and check out their profiles, and pretty much getting them to your site.

http://www.tunernetwork.com/forum/zazza%20ceo

Thats mine, I started working on the custom profile page lastnight, so not done all the way, it's slowly coming together.

[TunerNetwork]

I think if i do a $username code, ill give it a whirl and let you know how i make out

[The Chief]

Have anybody gotten the solution for this on a lighttpd working server?

[dinodonk]

it's working thanks!!
can i change www.domain.com/forum/username to profile.domain.com/username while forum url is still www.domain.com/forum ???

TIA

[Majidm]

Any way to make it convert periods to spaces? Would be better for linking members with spaces...

i.e http://www.mysite.com/User.with.Spaces goes to the member "User with Spaces"

[thenetbox]

Hi, Would this work for 3.6.2 as well? thanks

[bo0oost]

I'm running windows and PHP 4.4.4, can I get this working on my system? Also VB 3.6

thanks

[|Jordan|]

How do you make all links on the page use this system instead of the default vb way?