Rewrite memberlink

jh0nny · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

Dear members,

I would love to use a rewrite system within this great mod which allows me to rename member1, member2 etc. to their nickname provided.
I know that some characters cannot be used, but that ain't a problem (clean board) in this case.

I just want to let the board handle the requests like this:

Admin posted .... and the profile of Admin has to be reached with this link: www.mysite.com/forum/admin and also for the other members on the board.
I only made it so far that the profile was reachable when entering the link: www.mysite.com/forum/1admin (1 can be everything, but cannot let it out?) with this code in my htaccess:

dcz · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Rewrite memberlink

And welcome Very Happy

Rewriting profile links with title injection is some work, as they are widely used within phpBB pages and the code isn't really centralised, unlike topic where all topics are grabbed at once, here, profile link are code wise of many type.

This mean you'll have to grab quite some user nickname in phpBB code, but it's doable.

Of course, this is only an option if you're only allowing A-Za-z0-9_- for your user names, otherwise, phpBB would not be able to handle all cases, as format_url( "{bob}" ) = format_url ( "bob") = bob for example, even though bob and {bob} would still be two different members.

I'm not sure about what you really want to do, as admin/ does not seems to be the dmin nick name here.

For your rewriterule, you can use a slightely different one to handle the profiles as you wish :

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 795

How about a "pseudo" directory for members? For example, /forums/ and /members/bob.

jh0nny · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

First off all, thanks for the replies!

I tried to make a 'virtual' path like you did with /members but the software doesn't understand where the images have to be and looks inside the members/templates/etc. for them.
I have no problem with the way you suggested btw, but it has to work hihi.

I was also looking at the advanced SEO mod where the topic titles/forums etc. can be named with the name provided by the admin like 'Football', that's the thing I also want for my profilelinks, no longer with the id's and long links but just like www.site.com/admin (or Joost/Bart/John etc.), or with the solution given earlier.

I simply don't have the knowledge to do this myselve and doubt that it can be done by only using the mod rewrite functions and leaving the phpBB code in tact, which is not needed for me btw.
I hope you understand me. Embarassed

dcz · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Rewrite memberlink

Fully get rid of ids in our urls would mean some coding and some more process. It's of course doable, but phpBB is designed to deal with numerical IDS.

As said, rewriting profiles with nickname injection can be as hard as rewriting all other links in phpBB, and not really worth it IMHO.

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