Permalinks

[cam drysdale]

If your familiar with WordPress then you'll of seen this many times, for those that are not, permalinks are a way of cleaning up the urls for posts etc.

so a url like:

forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=post&do=new_post&f=285

could become:

forums.invisionpower.com/products-services/postnewtopic/

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any chance of a similar feature being implemented into IPB 2.2

[cam drysdale]

okay its been awhile now, anyone got any comments on this suggestion?

@ Matt: Reckon you could implement this for 2.2

[bfarber]

We don't respond to *every* suggestion submitted. ;) That doesn't mean we don't hear them or read them (in fact, I read every new topic or updated suggestion in this forum every morning)

[cam drysdale]

well i think that suggestions should be acknowledged

[bfarber]

It's just beyond our means to sit here and respond to all the suggestions made. I have to work on IPB tickets, IPB itself, manage IPS Beyond - responding to suggestions isn't worth the time it takes to do it in *all* cases.

Again, that doesn't mean we don't read them and discuss them internally.

[cam drysdale]

okay so back on topic

any news on the concept, would it be possible to implement such a feature into 2.2

[Quillz]

I think permalinking could be a good idea. Maybe it'll make it into 3.0.

[cam drysdale]

I was thinking more like 2.2 - it shouldnt be too big a project

[Dark Phantom]

I was thinking more like 2.2 - it shouldnt be too big a project

If its added, then it will take as long as it takes, your not going to get the answer you want.

They would be crazy to promise a feature, for a version thats not even finished, where planned features are being written everyday.

More important features I am sure are being added, while this feature would be nice, its not going to make or break the future. While lack of support for coverage might just do that ( extreme maybe, truth yes ).

[cam drysdale]

well they already have a cut down version implemented into the blog system, so its not as if they havent got the technology built into IPB, it just needs porting across the board!

[bfarber]

It would be impossible for IPB to manage Permalinks in the same manner as Blog. ;) Blog creates a directory for each user. For IPB to do this for forums, that would be one directory per forum. For topics, one directory per topic (imagine 50,000 topics?). For posts - well, that just wouldnt' be possible. Many operating systems I bet can't even handle 2 million folders within one folder.

It would have to be implemented in a different manner.

[cam drysdale]

I dont mean actually create the directories, they'd be virtual, like WordPress does!

i.e. the main url like index.php?showtopic=5 would still work, but the permalink could be /topic/hello-world

check out wordpress, they do it via .htaccess as far as i know, which is edited using php

[bfarber]

Yes, it would have to be done via .htaccess - but then again, only Apache supports this, and some hosts may not have mod_rewrite installed.

It's something to think about. But there will still be users who can't utilize the feature.

[cam drysdale]

^ well no offence - but if some people cant enable the feature then thats that i'm afraid, thats not IPS' fault, as its out of their hands! This really would be an awesome feature.

[xoligy]

You could always do index.php/blah/blah.