We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB SEO Premod 3.0.5 package, The SEO Hammer edition.
This release update the premod to phpBB3.0.5 and the phpBB SEO mod rewrites to the last version (0.6.0).
The premod as well includes updated versions of the zero duplicate mod, no duplicate mod, Dynamitc meta tag and Optimal title mods, all these are soon to be separately released.
This version introduces a new powerful option : SQL Rewriting. You will now be able to chose topic URL on a per case basis, no matter the URL standard used. This make the mixed mode with virtual folder option more powerful than ever, since you can keep static URL for most cases and use selected keywords for the more important threads.
Enabling this option is optional, but even if you do not intend to set custom URLs for your threads, it still makes the rewriting process faster than ever. Turning on the SQL rewriting option will not change your topic URLs, it will only allow admins and moderators (of the concerned thread's forum) to do it on a per case basis while posting and editing topic first post.
The phpbb_seo class was completely rewrote, all three types of URL rewriting are now merged without performance loss, if not with better performance even without the SQL rewriting option activated.
Optional set up and add ons (like the no and the zero duplicate and the URL rewriting extending mods) are now added in the phpbb_seo/includes/setup_phpbb_seo.php file, which will make next update easier.
It is as well very easy now to add custom replacement for title injection, please read the "Custom replacement for title injection" part of the install file for more details.
Demo : http://demo.phpbb-seo.net/
New in this version :
- All mods Updated to comply with phpBB 3.0.5.
- GYM Sitemaps & RSS 2.0.RC5 :
- Fixed : Glitch in gym_sitemaps/includes/gym_sitemaps.php,
- Added : more option for displaying RSS links among the forum,
- Fixed : News feeds ordering,
- Added : subsilver2 html templates,
- Fixed : Google ping again!,
- Fixed : RSS channel validation,
- Fixed : Google XML and TXT modules,
- Various bug fixes and enhancement.
- mod rewrite 0.6.0 :
- Complete rewrite of the phpbb_seo class, URL rewriting never was this fast,
- Added : SQL Rewriting for topic urls, allowing per case URLs for each topics (optional),
- Added : Attachment Rewriting (optional),
- All types of URL rewritings are now merged into a single mod: Ultimate SEO URL.
- zero duplicate 0.6.0 :
- Fixed : URL hash kept upon redirection (for browsers supporting it),
- Better SID handling (SID are never added when they are not present in request).
- no duplicate 0.6.0 :
- Fixed : possibly wrong forum id on index.
- Meta tags 0.2.8 :
- Fixed : Enabling search_ignore_words.php filtering (optional),
- Added : File based filtering.
- Optimal titles 1.0.6 :
- Index page title is now built using the phpBB sitename.
Minimum Requirements
phpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.
- A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
- A SQL database system, one of:
- MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)
- PostgreSQL 7.3+
- SQLite 2.8.2+
- Firebird 2.0+
- MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
- Oracle
- PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.
- getimagesize() function need to be enabled
- These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
- zlib Compression support
- Remote FTP support
- XML support
- Imagemagick support
- GD Support
The mod_rewrite Apache module will be necessary to use url rewriting. It is though possible to adapt the rewriterules for isap_rewrite on IIS servers (windows).
Security
Security issues found should be reported to the phpBB.com security tracker in the usual way.
Available packages
- If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" method for updating.
- Full Package
Contains entire phpBB SEO premod source English and French language files. - Changed Files Only
Contains only those files changed from previous versions of the phpBB3 SEO Premod. - Automatic Update Package
Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release. - Patch Files Package :
Contains patch compatible patches from previous versions of phpBB3. Mainly intended for advanced users.
With this release, there are four packages available.
- Both French and English language pack are included by default in the auto update and changed file package.
- In case you are not using the french language pack at all, you can safely ignore updates of the French language files. Leaving it on your ftp and let the updater update it is of course not a problem.
Be sure to take a look at the official phpBB3 announcement thread to find out more about the phpBB3.0.5 new features and bug fixes included in the phpBB SEO Premod.
Please note for update :
- This update will not change any of your current URL settings, but it will add some new one,
- You WILL have to update you .htaccess once done,
- The phpbb_seo_class.php file does not hold static part and delimiters customisation any more, these are now set in the phpbb_seo/includes/setup_phpbb_seo.php. If you customized your default delimiters, static part etc, you will have to set them up in that file. Please read the install file for more details about how to do it.
- Once you will have updated, you will have to refresh your theme's cache as well as phpBB's cache (ACP => STYLE, Themes => Refresh).
- GYM Sitemap & RSS
- GYM update process is now included in the auto update package and will handle all the required code changes for the premod files, but you WILL have to run the gym_sitemaps/gym_install.php script in update mode after you updated phpBB. If you do not use GYM, it is still wize to keep the file up to date, if you have deleted them, just ignore the GYM file update.
- IMPORTANT :
GYM sitemaps and RSS is likely to be updated before the premod, it will be up to you to keep it up to date meanwhile, you can be notified about updates by subscribing to the release thread while logged in : GYM Sitemaps & RSS module 2.0.RC4
Download/Documentation
- phpBB SEO Premod Downloads
phpBB SEO Premod Release thread
phpBB SEO Premod support forum
French speaking announcement thread
[EDIT] Important
We have found a late bug in gym_sitemaps/includes/gym_sitemaps.php which resulted into adding an extra delimiter (-t) in topic url when the topic_url field was filed.
This is only concerning GYM, but rather than maintaining a broken package on-line, we've updated all 3.0.5 packages (including the update packages), without renumbering, with GYM2.0.RC5 to make is easier for user downloading the SEO premod starting from now.
User who would have updated before this edit was added to the announcement need to do the following :
- Download the full archive again (SEO Premod 3.0.5),
- Upload all file from root/gym_sitemaps/ to phpBB/gym_sitemaps/, meaning you overwrite them all,
- Upload root/includes/acp/acp_gym_sitemaps.php and root/includes/acp/info/acp_gym_sitemaps.php to phpBB/includes/acp/acp_gym_sitemaps.php and phpBB/includes/acp/info/acp_gym_sitemaps.php, meaning you overwrite these two files,
- Browse gym_sitemaps/gym_install.php in update mod to update GYM version.
We apologise for the inconvenience.

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