Custom Addons Rewrite

I'm adding a custom addon to my site which I would like to have the urls use vbseo.

Because the software is encoded, I have no idea where to go with this. Here's how my links are:
http://www.site.com/page.php

Then there are links on that page which need to look like this:
http://www.site.com/page/title-test.html

Just like the forums are redirected. Is there a function I can call to have the links redirected automatically?

The biggest issue I'm having with this software is because it's encoded.

I need help on this ASAP.

You can't use the Custom Rewrite Rules section of the vbSEO config?

The thing is, I want the titles to be automatically striped of characters like the titles of the threads are.

The custom rewrite rules allow you to prepare a new seo url based on the parameters that exists in the original url only. So, if you custom addon will have urls like page.php?title=the_page_title, then you can make a custom rule to have seo url with title in it.

Oleg,

Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of how it works so that's not an issue.

I can write my own rewrites but here's where the issue comes in to play... Here is what my rewrites would look like (without regex):

http://www.site.com/filename.php
This is fine, nothing will happen.

http://www.site.com/filename/9-this-a-sample-it.html
This page would goto:
http://www.site.com/filename.php?id=9

That's simple right? Correct.

Now, the question I'm asking for is... My title is originally something like this:
This a Sample & It should be stripped after 4 words.

You have somewhere within your code a function that I'm assuming does this for you. I've never actually used encrypted code so I'm not sure exactly how this will work, but... Here's what I want...

I want to send that title to a function which will return the shorted and SEO string for the url. So let's give some sample php code.

[PHP]$url = vbseo_url($var['title']);[PHP]

Then I'll just use the $url in the vBulletin template. Do you follow what I'm saying?

Originally Posted by Amos

Just like the forums are redirected. Is there a function I can call to have the links redirected automatically?

Yes, the CRR will 301 redirect anything from the previous (dynamic) url to the new, static one.

Example:

Code:

'^showgroups\.php$' => 'forumleaders/'

Will:
1) rewrite 'showgroups.php' as 'forumleaders/' (and)
2) will 301 redirect showgroups.php to 'forumleaders/'

Check it out: http://www.vbseo.com/forumleaders/

Edit: This was in reply to Custom Addons Rewrite

Originally Posted by Amos

Oleg,

Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of how it works so that's not an issue.

I can write my own rewrites but here's where the issue comes in to play... Here is what my rewrites would look like (without regex):

http://www.site.com/filename.php
This is fine, nothing will happen.

http://www.site.com/filename/9-this-a-sample-it.html
This page would goto:
http://www.site.com/filename.php?id=9

That's simple right? Correct.

Now, the question I'm asking for is... My title is originally something like this:
This a Sample & It should be stripped after 4 words.

You have somewhere within your code a function that I'm assuming does this for you. I've never actually used encrypted code so I'm not sure exactly how this will work, but... Here's what I want...

I want to send that title to a function which will return the shorted and SEO string for the url. So let's give some sample php code.

[php]$url = vbseo_url($var['title']);[php]

Then I'll just use the $url in the vBulletin template. Do you follow what I'm saying?

The 'URL clipping' feature is specific to vBSEO's vBulletin rewriting functionality, not the CRR. However, if you want to clip (and rewrite) a specific link, simply add it to your templates using vBulletin's native format (dynamic) - - vBSEO will modify it as it does with all others links.

I attempted to do that and it was not working which is why I was looking for help.

Do i have to have the full URL in a variable for this to work?

I need more information on how this works.

In my template I had this:
page.php?id=8
That didn't work...

I then just tried this:
page/$var[tipid]-$var[title].html

That returns a link like this:
page/8-This is a Title.html

I need it to do the clipping you were talking about.

I just thought of something... It's a custom template, does this matter? I'm going to PM you the actual link to the site. I don't really want it public yet.

Originally Posted by Amos

In my template I had this:
page.php?id=8
That didn't work...

I then just tried this:
page/$var[tipid]-$var[title].html

That returns a link like this:
page/8-This is a Title.html

I need it to do the clipping you were talking about.

Ok, try this:

PHP Code:

if(@include_once('includes/functions_vbseo.php')) 
{ 
$seotitle = vbseo_filter_text($title); // " A simple example here!" => "simple-example-here" 
} 


Not allowed characters are stripped and stop-words removed

That's the function I needed.

I just did this code to test it though:

PHP Code:

echo vbseo_filter_text($var['title']); 


It outputed the correct line though.

Great! Closing this thread.