Any way to link to threads outside vbulletin?

[savingadvice]

We have a 'news' forum and we dynamically pull the last 5 thread titles from there and display them [linked] on our home page. Something tells me I won't be able to change their URL's to the vBSEO static style very easily. I'm sure its not as easy as replacing spaces in the title for dashes, and lowercase everything? Is there a function I can tap into that would make it possible?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

you can use vBSEO Functions for Extensibility for this.

[savingadvice]

Exactly what I was hoping for! However, i'm not able to get vbseo_any_url working.

echo vb_seo_url("showthread.php?t=26479"); //returns showthread.php?t=26479

Is it not supposed to work for that case?

[Keith Cohen]

Try it with the full URL.

[savingadvice]

echo vb_seo_url("http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26479");
// returing http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26479

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

vbseo_any_url() works for the threads existing in the cache only and non-standard URLs (i.e., Custom Rewrite Rules are applied).
For normal showthread links you should use vbseo_thread_url_row() function.