hello

i decided to install mixed rewrite mod in my forum
persian language is not supported in mixed rewrite mod
but i can use english titles for my forums

i want to know can it be effective for my language ?
my forum is a forum about webdesign and i will use many english word
in my posts (at least in web design forums i will use lot of english words)
but in other part of forum like free descussion forum there isn't any english word
and another question

mixed rewrite mod only affect on forums URL.
topics URL are like simple rewrite mod
with this mod only few URL will change ( i mean only forums URL is different from simple rewrite mod )
but you said the effect of this mod in indexing is very good

Well, off course it's a cool thing to use good keywords in URLs linked to related content.

There would be no real point to inject English keywords in URLs while the site never uses it.

And the mixed mod Rewrite will as well inject categories Titles in URLs, which is another occasion to show keyword in URLs.

Then, there is something I must tell you before we proceed, is that I never installed a phpBB forum running UTF-8, and I know few things about char-sets, I must admit

But, if you can set up a local test server, it won't be long to see how we could tweak the format_url() function to deal with such settings and if it's possible to mix Persian and English words in Forum title.

I say this because it seems to me that php does not care about utf-8 or Latin for most Latin chars, as all end up coded in ASCII and many characters are bi compatible, but not all.
SO for English words it's no problem I think if they are coded in UTF8, but with Persian I don't know.

We need to test.

Install a local test board and try it as is, tell me what happens to titles, English, mixed English and Persian, and Persian only.

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i mean that i want use only english word in title
just english


i tested migration of persian and english words
persian words will replaced with u character

for example i used a persian and a english word

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طراحی web

it means web design

the URL of this forum is in this form

http://localhost/Persia/u-web-vf2.html

persian word replaced by U character

movabletype use a method like this
if you have a english word, MT will add this word to title
if there isn't any english word , MT add post****.html to address

Then it seems it working right away, if you only use English words.

But I think we could then try to totally filter Persian words so that you still can use a good Persian Keyword in the forum titles, they'll be associated with the URL as being part of the txt link, which can be a good thing.


If you are interested, try those three cases :

English-Persian and English-Persian-English to see if they always get replaced by u, and try to many cases, more than one word etc to see if special case can be found.

Any way, it's no big deal, because even if all cases cannot be handled if you mix Persian and English, then, we'll for sure be able to mixe them nicely a long as we avoid exceptions (if any).

Because it's only the admin here to choose

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i used combination of persian and english words
see this titl and urls

the titles shows in LTR direction. if you want to see the title in correct way please
copy them and paste them in windows notepad, then right click on notepad and choose "right to left reading order"

as you can see some persian word will come together and the hyphen between them remove

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سایت persia طراح وب

http://localhost/Persia/u-persia-u-vf1.html

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weblog سایت طراح وب برای ایرانیان

http://localhost/Persia/weblog-u-u-u-uuuu-vf3.html

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سایت طراحی

http://localhost/Persia/u-u-vf4.html

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سایت طراحی وب

http://localhost/Persia/u-u-u-vf5.html


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سایت طراحی web

http://localhost/Persia/u-u-web-vf6.html

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سایت web design

http://localhost/Persia/u-web-design-vf7.html

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سایت persia طراح

http://localhost/Persia/u-persia-vf8.html

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سایت persia طراح وب ایران

http://localhost/Persia/u-persia-u-uu-vf9.html

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سایت persia طراح وب برای ایرانیان در هر کجای ایران

http://localhost/Persia/u-persia-u-u-uuuu-u-uu-uu-vf10.html

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persian sites مجموعه بهترین ها persian hostings

http://localhost/Persia/persian-sites-uuuu-uuu-u-persian-hostings-vf11.html

is there anyway to filter persian words in URLs completely ?
movable type use a method like this

for example i write a article about CSS that has other persian word in title
something like this

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آموزش CSS از استاد eric meyer

the url for this page in MT is like this

www.example.com/CSS_eric_meyer.html

MT ignore persian words

now imagine that there isn't any english words in title
something like this

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آموزش طراحی وب توسط امیر عباس

now the URL for this page in mt is like this

www.example.com/post****.html (**** is the number of post)

can you make something like this for phpbb SEO rewrites mod
both for mixed and advance rewrite mod

Movable type is not GPL, so I cannot inspire

Then, I was thinking about two path to go for.

The fast and easy one, where we just filter the first "u-" for example, or one or two more simple case allowing you to build simple mixed titles right now, or, all of them if you manage not to use any and prefer to ad many Persian words in forum titles.

Then, to think about a more general method, it's true I could implement some code to check if the url is empty and if so statically rewrite it, it's a good idea.

Just need to figure out how to deal with all cases while filtering titles, could just be a

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utf8_decode($url);

just after :

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$amp = ($non_html_amp) ? '&' : '&';

in sessions.php to do the trick. I cannot test, but if this outputs characters like ? and etc in Latin char-set, then, they'll be filtered and we'll only have to deal with the empty case to be ready for utf-8 advanced mod rewrite

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OK

i installed advance rewrite mod today
my phpBB installed in folder with name persia
the URL for this title

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weblog سایت طراح وب برای ایرانیان


is like this

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http://localhost/Persia/weblog-o-o-u-o-o-o-o-o-u-o-o-o-o-u-o-u-o-o-u-u-o-u-vf3.html

all persian character replaced with O and U character
another one title

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برای تست کردن برنامه

and the URL

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http://localhost/Persia/o-o-o-u-o-o-o-u-o-o-u-o-o-u-o-u-u-vt11.html

after that i add

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utf8_decode($url);

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$amp = ($non_html_amp) ? '&' : '&';

in sessions.php file

nothing happend
the URLs are like URLs i mentioned above

now, could you filter persian character ? for example for this title

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آموزش برنامه نویسی php از سایت lynda

the url must be something like this

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http://localhost/Persia/php-lynda.html

and if a title doesn't have any english word the url must be like this

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http://localhost/Persia/topic1256.html

is it possible ?
if you make a advance rewrite mod like this
all persian, arabic, hebrew, chinese, japanese and ... forums can use this rewrite mod

amir abbas wrote:now, could you filter Persian character ? for example for this title

I am sure it's possible I'll take a look at it.

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thanks

hello

excuse me, i want to start my forum in my new domain
im willing to use advance rewrite mod and i know that you don't have time

i must wait or i can install my forum with simple rewrite mod and after that i upgrade it to advance rewrtie mod ?

Well it's not that easy to go from static to dynamic mod rewrite without arm, because we don't know the topic title in the .htaccess.

I'd say, wait few more days while I search for a fix

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OK, thank you

All right, I have found what could be a solution, but there is a limitation.

With this, all numbers will be cut off the URL, which is not this bad, but it's not perfect.

the problem is طراحی web is coded like this in fact, look the html source code : 1591-1585-1575-1581-1740-web

See the point.

And char-set conversion are tricky here, I am still searching, but it's not that simple and I have few knowledge of char-sets.


So here are the required code change to do so :

Open :

[EDIT] Was not quite it it seems
See bellow.

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All right I think I have got it

So forget about the suggested changes and do this instead, still in the function.php code :

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function format_url($url)
{

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$url = preg_replace('/&#[0-9]{4};/i', "", $url);

And then, to take care of the empty case, when all is the title is posted in Persian, find :

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   return $url;

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   $url = ($url == '') ? 'topic' : $url;

and as before add the topic rewriterule for the empty title case (all Persian).

Actually, this make the mod very powerful in utf-8 as, general titles are most likely not to be made with English words and will thus be rewritten statically where the mixed titles will see keywords injected in URLs.

Tell me what you think, I think it's final now

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[EDIT] Yes it is function.php lol

ok

i searched in session.php . icouldn't find that part of codes in session.php
i think this part of code is in functions.php

i add that two line of code in functions.php
nothing happend again. i have all of that u and o in my urls

and another thing. persian characters are not only numbers

for example for this sectence

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سلام دوست من

HTML source is

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سلام دوست من

first a & after that # and a number and finally ;