vBSEO Functions for Extensibility

Code:

showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]$thread[highlight]?p=$post[postid]

You have two question characters in this URL, while there should be only one. Also, vBulletin is designed to have either t=xx or p=xx for showthread.php links and you have both of them at the same time.

I am writing a hack which I will use across multiple forums, some which have vbseo installed and some without, and I will want it to do different things depending on the outcome. What is the correct way to test if vbseo is installed and active (in a php script)? Is there a $vbulletin->options type variable to test for?

Hello,

you can use the following code:

PHP Code:

if(defined('VBSEO_ENABLED') && VBSEO_ENABLED)
{
} 


to make sure vBSEO is installed AND enabled.

My forum is at http://forum.mydomain.com/. My main site is http://mydomain.com/ and on the front page it displays the last 10 posts from the forum. I am trying to get the url's on this page to be SEO url's.

When I call the functions like vbseo_forum_url($topic->fid), the url comes back as http://mydomain.com/forum-name, which fails, because it should be http://forum.mydomain.com/forum-name. How do I get the correct url generated?

Hello Eric,

the function returns URL as "forum-name/", so you should use it like:

PHP Code:

echo 'http://forum.mydomain.com/'.vbseo_forum_url($topic->fid); 


Thanks,

It's been a long week, I should have thought of that.

You are welcome!

I'm trying to use vbseo_thread_url_row_spec(), but I get an undefined error in the apache logs. The other vbseo functions are working properly.

Here's how I am calling it:

$urlTopic = $bbpixelPPS->_vb_forum_url."/".vbseo_thread_url_row($topic);
$urlLastPost = $bbpixelPPS->_vb_forum_url."/".vbseo_thread_url_row_spec($topic,'last');

vbseo_thread_url_row works fine, so I assume $topic is a properly formatted row array.

Here's the error in the log:
...PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbseo_thread_url_row_spec() in /var/www/html/joomla/modules/mod_jvbplugin_lastpost.php on line 62...

Any ideas why this would be failing?

...PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbseo_thread_url_row_spec() in

/* NOTE: This issue has been resolved. The fix will be distributed with the next vBSEO build. */
Thank you for reporting!

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mm.. could you please rephrase?

Hi!

I don't get the any_url to work.

This is my CRR:

Code:

//PHOTOPOST CRR
'fotos/showgallery\.php?cat=502$' => 'grijze-roodstaart-papegaaien/fotos.html'

Wich works fine, the forum grijze-roodstaart-papegaaien/ will serve the grijze roodstaart photo index on forum-direcotory/fotos.html

This is my test in /fotos/ on the root of my domain.

PHP Code:

include_once '../includes/functions_vbseo.php';
vbseo_get_options();
vbseo_prepare_seo_replace();
get_forum_info();
print vbseo_any_url('fotos/showgallery.php?cat=502');exit; 


It won't convert the url to the SEO version as configured in the CRR. Also removing fotos, adding a / at the beginning or writing the full url does not work.

What am I doing wrong?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Found it!

the ? needed to be escaped for regular expression purposes but I don't know why it did perform the rewrite without the escape!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

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I still have a problem with the 301 redirects.

I've configured the folowing redirect:

Code:

'fotos/showgallery\.php\?cat=502$' => 'grijze-roodstaart-papegaaien/fotos.html'

But the page will not be redirected: Papegaaien Foto's - Grijze Roodstaart Papegaaien

Is this because the rewritten page should actualy not exist anymore?

I found that both sides are regular expressions so I changed the code to

Code:

'fotos/showgallery\.php\?cat=502$' => 'grijze-roodstaart-papegaaien/fotos\.html'

But this doesn't work either.