1 Topic by tempus (edited by tempus 2004-06-11 20:45)

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Topic: aesthetic URIs

wouldn't it be swell if punbb, like blogs, adopted this? or perhaps it is asking to much. I haven't a clue, but anyways - here's the proposal:

instead of:
www.mytestforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=21424 and such.

we might have:
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/ for forums
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/ for showing threads from a year (probably not practical?)
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/ for showing threads from a month
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/11/ for showing threads from a day
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/11/post-name/ for showing a particular thread
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/11/post-name/2/ for a particular post in a thread

one might even have:
www.mytestforum.com/search/search+terms+here/
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/11/post-name/#2/edit to edit a post
www.mytestforum.com/forum-name/2004/06/11/post-name/post/ to post to a thread

thoughts? criticisms? bad or good idea?

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Re: aesthetic URIs

hmmm... why do you want to have it this way? I don't see any really good things with it..

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Re: aesthetic URIs

I don't really see the point... tongue

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Re: aesthetic URIs

Not quite sure. I've just seen it on countless blogs and wondered if it would work for a forum.

I'm not quite sure how much modding it would need, because the actual changing of these URIs deals with using .htaccess & mod_rewrite.

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5 Reply by Andy

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Re: aesthetic URIs

Quite a bit I would have thought... why not just modify a blog script? I know a lot of very flexible blogs which would function alright as a forum...

But I guess it just wouldn't be the same as PunBB smile

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Re: aesthetic URIs

Yah, I suppose. I  fully realize that it's not practical and not really needed, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

I guess some people didn't though big_smile.

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7 Reply by Andy

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Re: aesthetic URIs

It is an interesting idea.. just as you said, not practical. smile

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Re: aesthetic URIs

There's a mod_rewrite mod for punbb out there somewhere.

You won't get the url's you requested but it'll give you something like:

http://www.yourhost.org/punbb/viewforum/24
http://www.yourhost.org/punbb/viewtopic/19364

9 Reply by dot

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Re: aesthetic URIs

1. Being able to have static URLs such as http://mydomain.com/1.html are absolutely vital for good rankings in the search engines. I am not an expert on coding, but I do know what I'm talking about  when it comes to good search engine rankings.

It would be really helpful to some of us if a tutorial could be posted on how to use mod_rewrite, or whatever, so punbb will display static URLs. If that can be accomplished, I'll use punbb for sure.

2. Is is possible to have the subject of a post be only the title. For instance, this thread's title is:

PunBB.org Forums / aesthetic URL's

I would like it to be just:

aesthetic URL's

Again, this is important for getting pages to rank properly and highly on search engines

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Re: aesthetic URIs

That would be a nice tutorial.

Maybe the mod_rewrite .htaccess file could be included in 1.2 as an option.

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11 Reply by zaher

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Re: aesthetic URIs

I guess it's depend on Apashe not the forum or php!

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12 Reply by Rod

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Re: aesthetic URIs

Yes, if apache is good configured, all is possible smile

example

http://www.sortons.net/bars.htm
http://www.sortons.net/pubs.htm
http://www.sortons.net/discotheques.htm

is in fact
http://www.sortons.net/etablissements?typeag=1
http://www.sortons.net/etablissements?typeag=2
http://www.sortons.net/etablissements?typeag=3

And indeed, in search engines like google ... the rank is not the same smile

It would be nice ... but HOWEVER ...

http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/nameofyourtopic_id.htm is very cool : no problem with images, external css ...

in the case of
http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/topic/nameoftopic/

Apache and .htacess emulate you have sub folders ... and you have to think about that (images, css ... all in ABSOLUTE PATH, and it's not very cool to upgrade : all paths change !!!) ...

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