cam drysdale Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 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/ ----------------------------------------- any chance of a similar feature being implemented into IPB 2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 okay its been awhile now, anyone got any comments on this suggestion? @ Matt: Reckon you could implement this for 2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 well i think that suggestions should be acknowledged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 okay so back on topic any news on the concept, would it be possible to implement such a feature into 2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I think permalinking could be a good idea. Maybe it'll make it into 3.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I was thinking more like 2.2 - it shouldnt be too big a project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Phantom Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 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 ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam drysdale Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 ^ 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoligy Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 You could always do index.php/blah/blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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