Hey all,
For those of you who use phpBB and the common
seo mod (phpbb-
seo.com), you may have noticed that many links in non-prosilver and non-subsilver templates are broken due to the virtual topic folders.
This mod will save you editing your template files to correct those broken links.
You'll find this particularly useful if you have multiple styles running off the same forum, or have a styles demo forum running. Given i have 130 styles added to my forum host, editing the styles 1 by 1 was simply not an option.
Here's a fix i just coded up, it's easy to do and only takes a few minutes.
WARNING: This has been tested in a phpBB root install(/), and sub-folder(/subfolder/) install only, NOT a sub-subfolder (/subfolder/subfolder/) install. Good luck!
OPEN: Code:
includes/template.php
FIND: Code:
function assign_vars($vararray)
{ ADD AFTER: Code:
// get config
global $config;
FIND: Code:
foreach ($vararray as $key => $val)
{ ADD AFTER:????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/code/710172-phpbb-search-engine-optimization-virtual-folder.html Code:
// START: MOD by http://forums.do/
$linkNames=array('S_LOGIN_ACTION','S_LOGIN_ACTION','S_SEARCHBOX_ACTION'); // Names of uncommon links
if(substr($key,0,2)=='U_'||in_array($key,$linkNames)) // Check if this is a link
{
if(substr($val,0,7)!='http://'&&substr($val,0,3)!='../') // Make sure the link isn't already good
{
$instFolderName=$config['script_path']; // Get the install path of phpBB
// The following is to remove slashes carefully, incase phpBB is installed in a consecutive sub-folder
if(substr($instFolderName,0,1)=='/')
{
$instFolderName=substr($instFolderName,1); // Remove the first slash, if there is one
}
if(substr($instFolderName,-1,1)=='/')
{
$instFolderName=substr($instFolderName,0,-1); // Remove the last slash, if there is one
}
$allowedFolders=array('adm','ucp',$instFolderName); // Define allowed folder; admin panel, user control panel, install folder
$strURIx=explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); // Split up the URI to find the first folder
if(!in_array($strURIx[count($strURIx)-2],$allowedFolders)&&count($strURIx)>2) // Check to see we are in a folder that is not normal
{
if(substr($val,0,2)=='./') // Some links begin with ./ and some with just /
{
$val='.'.$val; // Adda period to go up one level.
}
}
}
}
// END: MOD by http://forums.do/ FIND:????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=710172 Code:
function assign_var($varname, $varval)
{ ADD AFTER: Code:
// get config
global $config;
// START: MOD by http://forums.do/
$linkNames=array('S_LOGIN_ACTION','S_LOGIN_ACTION','S_SEARCHBOX_ACTION'); // Names of uncommon links
if(substr($varname,0,2)=='U_'||in_array($varname,$linkNames)) // Check if this is a link
{
if(substr($varval,0,7)!='http://'&&substr($varval,0,3)!='../') // Make sure the link isn't already good
{
$instFolderName=$config['script_path']; // Get the install path of phpBB
// The following is to remove slashes carefully, incase phpBB is installed in a consecutive sub-folder
if(substr($instFolderName,0,1)=='/')
{
$instFolderName=substr($instFolderName,1); // Remove the first slash, if there is one
}
if(substr($instFolderName,-1,1)=='/')
{
$instFolderName=substr($instFolderName,0,-1); // Remove the last slash, if there is one
}
$allowedFolders=array('adm','ucp',$instFolderName); // Define allowed folder; admin panel, user control panel, install folder
$strURIx=explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); // Split up the URI to find the first folder
if(!in_array($strURIx[count($strURIx)-2],$allowedFolders)&&count($strURIx)>2) // Check to see we are in a folder that is not normal
{
if(substr($varval,0,2)=='./') // Some links begin with ./ and some with just /
{
$varval='.'.$varval; // Adda period to go up one level.
}
}
}
}
// END: MOD by http://forums.do/ I'll update this as i find any glitches.
Enjoy!
-Rhett
04-08-2011, 08:07 AM
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