Remove Intermediate Redirection Page

For some odd reason, I didn't see any request for such a feature, although as far as I know, vBulletin is the only bulletin board which uses this useless redirection system. I'm talking about the "Thank you for logging in...", "Thank you for posting...", "Please wait while searching...", etc. pages.

This hack (I'm not even sure you can call it a hack, it's just 1 line of code) will get rid of this page. It works with all the browsers, but just in case a VERY old browser is being used, the original redirection system will be used, so basically you have nothing to lose.

In the admin/functions.php file, find:

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("standardredirect")."\");");

Before it, add:

PHP Code:

header ("Location: $url"); 


[Tommy Boy]

Originally posted by melondog
The reason the redirect is there is so if a user refreshes the thread page, the post is not resubmitted. You should redirect to a blank page that redirects to the thread, to make it seem like no mid step is used, and then it takes them to the url. That is what I think should be done.

p.s. - I've done this on my test board.

You'll get the same effect with this hack too.

[The Keeper]

heh I just changed
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=$url">

to
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=$url">

in Standard redirect, to make it appear faster.

[phase1]

test

[Psychdrone]

Hey could somebody be so kinda and tell me around what line this is on?? Cause I have 2.2.4 and can not find it

Please thanks guys!

[Erwin]

It's in the standardredirect template.

[Velocd]

Excellent hack

It works perfectly on my forums, and I'm not getting any of the problems some of you are getting. I'm using the original code on the main page, and when I post it takes me right to my thread
Very fast, and I know the users will like it.

99% of the people on my forums use Internet Explorer, so there is no worry bout incompatibility till maybe later. An option for enabling / disabling in profile would be nice.

[Ben Johnson]

i installed this hack and when people vote on polls it does not work

[TheSaint-AeD]

I have lots of requests of my Users for this Hack. Could anybody of the vB.org-Staff please say something to this? Test it and correct it if needed?

[Paul]

I have been able to use the header() function to successfully redirect to a post anchor. It involves far more code editing than is supplied here and appears to be the way vb3 is handling this.

There are instances when standardredirect is used for informational purposes, so I elected to only remove specific instances--most notably, newthread, newreply, and search.

If there is an interest, I'll attach instructions here.

Paul

[Kars10]

cool hack!! Works great...
[high]* Minifreunde klicks installed![/high]