URL is not friendly, it is meaningless

superthin · Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 2

Hi everybody,

I like Advanced SEO URL very much and applied for my board. Problem is: after rewrite, URLs is meaningless so Google's bots will be crazy with such URLs / URIs.

I want to use my class / function to solve title of post to meaningful. But I cannot identify which file and classes / functions should be modified.

Should you tell me what should I do?

SeO

First, you can only use A-Z characters in your urls, so it may be less interesting with Vietnamese, the simple mod rewrite could be enough if you never use Latin characters in your forum and topic titles.

You may want ot install the mixed mod rewrite in case your topic title never use Latin characters and you still want to use some in your forum urls, can be handy Wink

Then, for the acp part, you just need to enter Latin titles for your urls, and it will work as expected, other character will just be deleted as they do not work properly.

About the number of characters, you'll just have as many as you type in, it's you to choose, the message is only an advise (and a wise one) Wink

superthin · Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 2

SeO

I'm not a Vietnamese specialist, but from what I see on your image, it looks like your characters are close to the Latin ones, but are using many accents.

The format_url method is indeed the one to deaccentuate the accentuated chars which have an html entity references, the numerical one cannot be all handled easily, but we did put together a way to do it, in case it still makes sens to deaccentuate vietnamese characters, at least for the ones using Latin character (sort of) on this thread : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/advanced-seo-url/discussions-vt1229.html

Interesting things really starts here : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/advanced-seo-url/discussions-vt1229-15.html#9596

The work would be to find out all the Vietnamese characters needing custom deaccentiation, and to implement them following the same universal principle.

Unfortunately, I cannot provide with much help as far as telling if deaccentuated chars would still make sens or to find out the full list, but I'm sure that is you do it, it will be a solution for many others Wink

If only for forum urls (mixed mode), you could just do the trick by yourself in the forum url management, the first url you see are built out of the forum titles, with format_url, you could just use A-Z chars directly there and hit submit.