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"); 


[TheSaint-AeD]

Originally posted by LoveShack
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

Yes, there is Interest You could even release it newly giving Credits to Chen

[Axel Foley]

Tommy, your hacks are little "gems"...

This hack is working on my 2.2.9 forum. It works with other browsers. It only has the glitch of the anchor problem, but as someone else said, it's IE's fault, the anchor gets parsed correctly on other browsers.

This hack also solved a little problem my users and I noticed: after the submission of a new post/reply, when the forum redirected to the thread, the browser "reloaded" the entire page, graphics were pulled from the cache, but anyway it was a little slow. I never caught the problem.

Anyway I just installed this and I noticed a big improvement in response time, some users already tried it and they are very happy about it.

Keep up the excellent work Tommy...

[Erwin]

I agree - this caches the graphics, so it actually reduces bandwidth and speeds things up.

[Boofo]

Originally posted by LoveShack
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

If you're still willing to supply the code, I would be willing to use it.

[padblaz]

nice thing, working well
thx