Incorporating SEO links into custom PHP scripts

Hi Guys,

I have a custom PHP script I am using to grab the username and usergroup of particular members for a customized memberlist. The script works great, but I don't know how to code in the vBSEO equivalent for the links to users profiles. Essentially what I have been doing is grabbing their userid and setting up older links in this format:

member.php?u=X

How can I call the vBSEO functions to change these links for me? Thanks for the help!

Hi,

There are two methods to this, the first and more complex is you would actually need to add vBSEO extendibility talked about on our Wiki at vBSEO Extensibility - VBSEO Wiki

The second option is you can use vBSEO Custom Rewrite Rules, but vBSEO can only rewrite information that is already in the URL, so if you only have the UserID in the current url vBSEO can't then add the username to it...

So you could change

member.php?u=135

into

custom-member135.html

But in order to get a user like

custom-member/ceri-may-135.html

you would have to include the ceri-may part in the original URL so something like

member.php?u=X&n=ceri-may