What's the difference between Basic Friendly URLs and Advanced Friendly URLs?

[benative]

I went to Settings - Options - Server Settings and Optimization Options, and there are two types of Friendly URLs. (basic & advanced)

What's the difference of them?

I know that Friendly URLs help serch engines like google, yahoo to search my website. (please correct me if i am wrong.)

but i have no clue what basic or advanced urls are.

is advanced any better?

[ChopSuey]

Advanced it is UGLY
Example of Basic
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...Friendly-URLs?
Example of Advanced
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...Friendly-URLs?

You wouldn't want that now would you? lol

So it just adds a " / " after showthread.php, member.php and sure is ugly

[compwhizii]

Originally Posted by ChopSuey

Advanced it is UGLY
Example of Basic
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236746
Example of Advanced
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...Friendly-URLs?

You wouldn't want that now would you? lol

That is incorrect. From the vBulletin code:

PHP Code:

    /**
     * Render the friendly url.
     *
     * @example
     *     FRIENDLY_URL_OFF
     *    showthread.php?t=1234&p=2
     *
     *    FRIENDLY_URL_BASIC
     *    showthread.php?1234-Thread-Title/page2&pp=2
     *
     *    FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED
     *    showthread.php/1234-Thread-Title/page2?pp=2
     *
     *    FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE
     *    /threads/1234-Thread-Title/page2?pp=2
     *    RewriteRule ^/vb4/threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) /vb4/showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [QSA]
     *
     * @param int $method_override                - Force a Friendly URL method
     * @param bool $canonical                    - Whether to skip encoding for output
     * @return string
     */ 


[ChopSuey]

Sorry i edited it. But i'd go with standard.