1 Reply by The Wolf

(10 replies, posted in Feature requests)

"Ah, nice. There are two big problems though. What about people who aren't able to use htaccess files? I know quite a few hosts that just ignore htaccess. Also, what about people running PunBB on IIS or any other webserver for that matter?"

Nothing you can do to help them, thats why you have these urls off by default. ISS doesn't have mod_rewrite, and if you can't use an access file you can't use mod_rewrite either.

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2 Reply by The Wolf

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I will post on how to implement it here.

First thing you need to do is generate the URLs at runtime, something like this:

    function url_parse($module, $arguments) {
        $out = "/$module/";
        
        foreach ($arguments as $name => $value) {
            # If this argument is numeric:
            if (is_numeric($name)) {
                # Then its an argument without a value:
                $out .= "$value/";
            } else {
                # If not then its an argument with a value:
                $out .= "$name:$value/";
            }
        }
        
        return $out;
    }

You would call that function with code like this:

    echo url_parse('viewtopic', array(
        'id'    => 4574,
        'this'    => 'that',
        'something',
    ))

This would output a url like this:

/viewtopic/id:4574/this:that/something/

Thats all you need to generate the urls. Please note that this can also be used to generate the standard url.

Now for the fun part, making apache load the viewtopic.php file:

Make a .htaccess file with the following code:

MultiViews

Simple isn't it?

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3 Reply by The Wolf

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I would like to have email verification, but still let the user choose their own password.

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4 Topic by The Wolf

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1. Add an account activation page where a user can select their own password instead of having one emailed to them.

2. Convert PunBB to using search engine friendly urls, without using mod_rewrite. Rickard, I can show you how to do this, its very easy on a board coded like punbb.

There was something else, but I can't remember right now.

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