[beta 1.5.4] Smart URLs v2.1

[zoki]

Btw what is the purpose of $boardseen=1 on boardindex?

That link should get me to the last message in particular topic, but it does not.

[zoki]

You see, the way it is now, in url for board kw it puts for example "b5.htm", "b17.htm"......
And for topic kw it puts "t12.htm", "t56.htm" .

[Anguz]

those aren't keywords, those are the thread and board IDs

it's good that you have the keywords checked in modsettings, but you also have to input the keywords for each board and category or nothing will be shown...

do that where you create/modify/delete categories and boards

I don't know exactly what $boardseen is for, but it's there in the original urls, so I left it there

[zoki]

See, I didn't know where I was supposed to set my KWs. Tanx for that.

Everything's fine now...

I just have to find out why it puts "/" in front of everything in <title> ..... </title>

[zoki]

I would like if ALL links on my board would be according to smart urls...

For example on the bottom, in the "Recent posts" box, links to the recent posts are in old format.

[Anguz]

I would like if ALL links on my board would be according to smart urls...

For example on the bottom, in the "Recent posts" box, links to the recent posts are in old format.

you can do it if you want

[pege]

I would like if ALL links on my board would be according to smart urls...

For example on the bottom, in the "Recent posts" box, links to the recent posts are in old format.

you can do it if you want

me too, Anguz, how do you make them work, if you use like a yy function in Subs to call recent posts?...e.g. how would you modify this one?

function yyrecentp() {
   global $settings,$scripturl,$txt,$censored,$recentsender,$db_prefix, $post, $dummy,$showlatestcount,$showBoard,$showPoster,$showTime, $block, $prefs, $color;
   
   $display = 3;
   $request = mysql_query("SELECT m.smiliesEnabled,m.posterTime,m.ID_MEMBER,m.ID_MSG,m.subject,m.body,m.ID_TOPIC,t.ID_BOARD,b.name as bname,c.name as cname,m.posterName,t.numReplies FROM {$db_prefix}messages as m,{$db_prefix}topics as t,{$db_prefix}boards as b,{$db_prefix}categories as c WHERE (m.ID_TOPIC = t.ID_TOPIC AND t.ID_BOARD = b.ID_BOARD AND b.ID_CAT=c.ID_CAT AND (FIND_IN_SET('$settings[7]',c.memberGroups)!=0 OR c.memberGroups='' OR '$settings[7]'='Administrator' OR '$settings[7]'='Global Moderator')) ORDER BY m.posterTime DESC LIMIT $display");
   
   while ($curr_post = mysql_fetch_array($request)) {
      $block[contents] = $block[contents]."<a href=\"$scripturl?board=$curr_post[ID_BOARD];action=display;threadid=$curr_post[ID_TOPIC];boardseen=1\"><li>$curr_post[subject]</a><BR>";
      }
echo $block[contents];
   }

i tried wrapping the url in the ".smart_url()." , but couldn't seem to get it right.

[Anguz]

it may not be correct, but I'd change this line

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$block[contents] = $block[contents]."<a href=\"$scripturl?board=$curr_post[ID_BOARD];action=display;threadid=$curr_post[ID_TOPIC];boardseen=1\"><li>$curr_post[subject]</a><BR>";
to

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$block[contents] = $block[contents]."<a href=\"".smart_url($scripturl?board=$curr_post[ID_BOARD];action=display;threadid=$curr_post[ID_TOPIC];boardseen=1)."\"><li>$curr_post[subject]</a><BR>";
the thing is to wrap the url to the board/thread with smart_url()

this code didn't have it, but in case you want to change some other part that does, leave out the "#xxx" part at the end of the url... i.e.

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smart_url($scripturl).'#'.$curcat

let me know how it goes

[pege]

well, tried every option i could think of, and got one of three variables: parse error (doesn't have the \ to escape the " in ".smart_url), uninterpolated text (with '.smart_url, the url displays like http://pege.net/'.smart_url(...), or empty baseref (http://pege.net).

BUT....

because of how smart urls recognizes things, i was able to get the same results by hard-coding this...

<a class=\"small\" href=\"$scripturl/news/b$curr_post[ID_BOARD]/t$curr_post[ID_TOPIC].htm\">•&nbsp;$curr_post[subject]</a>

so it works for what i need it.  yay! i would like to figure out how to make it work without that.

[Anguz]

hehe.... well... hardcoded works, but you can't change it back easily...

I made a mistake in the above code, the smart_url part should be

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smart_url($scripturl.'?board='.$curr_post[ID_BOARD].';action=display;threadid='.$curr_post[ID_TOPIC].';boardseen=1')

[pege]

just had All The Web spider the site.  they hit 304 of about 380 topics, including the content of the article!  wierd thing is, they took the content of each article from printpage, AND, two days ago, i disabled printpage unless you're a member (or so i thought).  any one have something like that happen?

[dschwab9]

I don't think Google like the 2.1 URL format.  Has anyone had it pull a significant number of pages from their board?

When I was running the old version of spider urls, google was very active on the forum.  After a month or so of running 2.1 and looking at the logs, google seems to be pulling the main page daily, but never going anywhere else (maybe because of the issue with the session ID? - I never could get rid of it)

I upgraded to SMF last night, and google is actively crawling my forum again today.

[pege]

i don't know if i've waited long enough yet for Google to spider or not.  but, i did get rid of the session id.  Unknown gave a fix for that on SMF...here it is....

add:

@ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);

before

if (function_exists('session_start'))
{
       session_start();
       $sc = session_id();

in Index.php

i've had the same thing with most search engines, they come there every day and do the first page.  Alltheweb did spider almost everything on my site, but wierdly, it was the urls with printpage.  i can't imagine they would have a problem with the new urls.  maybe they just aren't doing their massive spiders yet.

[Anguz]

funny... I can't really tell, cause I've put my forum offline for a while

why don't you try taking the keywords off the urls and leave them in the title if you want... make the urls as simple as they can be

perhaps google now decided that urls with a path after the script is an indicator of a dynamic page too and treats them as the ones with queries

it's hard to tell how google works and it changes all the time

it's pretty much a matter of searching what's working for others and then some experimetation

I believe the one for mod_rewrite is the most effective one, but I can't try it yet

[dschwab9]

Well, I didn't have a path after the script, because I renamed it to "content" with no description.

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@ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);
Didn't get rid of it for me.  I even went into php.ini and set that option globally, and I still had the session ID. I renamed the session from "PHPSESSID" to "p", but google still didn't like it.

I watched google for over a month, and the existing pages stayed, but it never indexed a single page using the new format.  But, since I switched to SMF, it's kinda late to play with the mod settings now  

I installed smf last night and changed my $scripturl to content, so my url's look like: http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/topic,2966 and google was crawling within a few hours.  I just checked "Who's Online", which shoes IP addresses for each guest, and I have 5 different google IP's viewing 5 different topics right now.