vBSEO-style friendly urls using vB_Friendly_Url mechanism
Mod Version: 0.6, by alex.sk
| vB Version: 4.x.x | Rating:  (4 votes - 3.75 average) |
Installs: 26 |
| Released: 21 Feb 2013 | Last Update: 23 Feb 2013 | Downloads: 358 |
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This plugin enables the following url scheme:
vbulletin/forum-name/
vbulletin/forum-name/index10.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/members/admin.html
This is close to what vBSEO 3.5.2 generates in its default configuration.
he original goal of this plugin was to allow ditching vBSEO during vB3-vB4 upgrade without suffering a massive link rot.
At this moment, this plugin may be used as a starting point to implement some specific link scheme, but it's hardly useful by itself unless you have that particual vBSEO version; vBSEO 3.6.0 uses different link scheme not compatible with this one.
The plugin hooks to the built-in url generation/parsing mechanism of vB4, overriding vB_Friendly_Url_* classes, unlike vBSEO which does whole-page preg replacements even in vB4. It works within the normal vB data flow, so it's small, simple, and quite fast. It's also very likely to play well along with other plugins like Cerberus.
The links generated by this plugin do not always match those of vBSEO. There are slight differences in handling non-alphanumeric characters, and probably other issues too. However, it should accept all vBSEO thread links, in the worst case (CANON_STRICT) issuing some 301 redirects.
Most of vBSEO configuration options are not supported. In particular, link structure is hard-coded. If you need something unusual, you may use this as a template, but you'll need to tweak it to get urls you want.
Blog urls are not implemented; the site I wrote this for does not use vB blogs.
Calendar urls and anything else not handled by vB_Friendly_Url is not supported.
Configuration resides on the standard Friendly Urls page.
The plugin can work in modes other than FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE. It's not really indented to do it, it's more of a fallback option, but it's implemented. In FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED mode urls look like this:
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name.html
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name-10.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/member.php/admin.html
The plugin allows custom forum slugs, i.e. replacing forum-name with something else without changing the forum title. It's not pretty, but it works.
Sample .htaccess rules for FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE:
Adjust ^members/ to match your friendlyurl_memberdir if necessary.
Tested on vB 4.0.3 PL8 and vB 4.2.0. Should work on most 4.x.x versions.
Feel free to post bug reports, suggestions etc. in this thread.
vbulletin/forum-name/
vbulletin/forum-name/index10.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/forum-name/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/members/admin.html
This is close to what vBSEO 3.5.2 generates in its default configuration.
he original goal of this plugin was to allow ditching vBSEO during vB3-vB4 upgrade without suffering a massive link rot.
At this moment, this plugin may be used as a starting point to implement some specific link scheme, but it's hardly useful by itself unless you have that particual vBSEO version; vBSEO 3.6.0 uses different link scheme not compatible with this one.
The plugin hooks to the built-in url generation/parsing mechanism of vB4, overriding vB_Friendly_Url_* classes, unlike vBSEO which does whole-page preg replacements even in vB4. It works within the normal vB data flow, so it's small, simple, and quite fast. It's also very likely to play well along with other plugins like Cerberus.
The links generated by this plugin do not always match those of vBSEO. There are slight differences in handling non-alphanumeric characters, and probably other issues too. However, it should accept all vBSEO thread links, in the worst case (CANON_STRICT) issuing some 301 redirects.
Most of vBSEO configuration options are not supported. In particular, link structure is hard-coded. If you need something unusual, you may use this as a template, but you'll need to tweak it to get urls you want.
Blog urls are not implemented; the site I wrote this for does not use vB blogs.
Calendar urls and anything else not handled by vB_Friendly_Url is not supported.
Configuration resides on the standard Friendly Urls page.
The plugin can work in modes other than FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE. It's not really indented to do it, it's more of a fallback option, but it's implemented. In FRIENDLY_URL_ADVANCED mode urls look like this:
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name.html
vbulletin/forumdisplay.php/forum-name-10.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145.html
vbulletin/showthread.php/thread-title-145-7.html
vbulletin/member.php/admin.html
The plugin allows custom forum slugs, i.e. replacing forum-name with something else without changing the forum title. It's not pretty, but it works.
Sample .htaccess rules for FRIENDLY_URL_REWRITE:
Code:
RewriteBase /url/path/to/vbulletin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# Use these two only if you have friendlyurl_acceptvb4 enabled
RewriteRule ^threads/(.*) showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*) forumdisplay.php [L]
RewriteRule ^members/([^/]+).html$ member.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/index\d*.html$ forumdisplay.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^/]+.html$ showthread.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/?$ forumdisplay.php [L]
Tested on vB 4.0.3 PL8 and vB 4.2.0. Should work on most 4.x.x versions.
Feel free to post bug reports, suggestions etc. in this thread.
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product-fti-friendly-urls.xml (30.4 KB, 370 downloads)