cynicdavid Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Tried searching for this but the character limit screwed me up a lil.Is there a way of having your member profile be a very simple URL?for examplewww.boardname.com/members/cynicdavidor maybe (even better)www.boardname.com/cynicdavid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith J. Kacin Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 What if the user changes their name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynicdavid Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 I would assume it would be some kind of dynamic mod_rewrite type of thing. But i'm okay with the myspace.com model where the profile URL never changes as well.the important thing is that members link to their profiles and it's easy for them to remember. it's a top request on my current 2.1 board and when i upgrade to the newest version that's a pretty big feature i would like to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 What if the user changes their name?IPB compensates and renames the folder? ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Timmy Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 IPB compensates and renames the folder? ;DAnd the search engine happens to keep the old URL in their results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis P Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Which will in turn redirect to the new profile :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynicdavid Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 it can't be that difficult can it? i thought maybe a mod existed already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 And the search engine happens to keep the old URL in their results?The same thing that happens when a serach engine happens to keep the URL of a thread that doesn't exist anymore. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Clash Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 The same thing that happens when a serach engine happens to keep the URL of a thread that doesn't exist anymore. :PCongratulations, you've just pointed out error #1 with the search function! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynicdavid Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 is it one of those if I pay some bucks will someone create a mod kinda thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Congratulations, you've just pointed out error #1 with the search function! :lol:But to be honest, what can you do about it? It's data on someone else's server, best you can do is display the error. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Clash Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Nothing really. One of those few quirks in the internet. :(+1 to the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rοb Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 This would work fine for sites that allowed only alpha-numeric chars in the display names, but otherwise would be useless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Barrie Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 is it one of those if I pay some bucks will someone create a mod kinda thing?Before doing that, check out the mods on IPSBeyond.com.I can unequivocably say that there is at least one "friendly URL" addon, but I don't know if any of them will meet your specific needs.Note, you will need to create your IPSBeyond account via the billing area of the website if you haven't already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkoepke Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 IPSBeyond.com says they are no longer accepting registrations? whats up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millar Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 IPSBeyond.com says they are no longer accepting registrations? whats up with that?You have to be an IPS customer to get an IPS Beyond account.As for the idea, if you wanted to do this, simply disable display name changes to prevent the problems there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shomazta Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 This would work fine for sites that allowed only alpha-numeric chars in the display names, but otherwise would be useless...why not have it set up to use the persons REGISTERED (login) name opposed to their display name? i'm all for this idea and maybe if i get some time ill talk it over with some friends and we'll see what we can do for you :) want to contribute back to this community... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOo FOo HAcker Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Here is a mod rewrite statement I wrote to make clean URLs for member profiles. Example URL:http://forums.invisionpower.com/member/1/RewriteRule ^member/([0-9]{1,100})/$ index.php?act=profile&MID=$1 [QSA,L] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicknight Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 why not have it set up to use the persons REGISTERED (login) name opposed to their display name? i'm all for this idea and maybe if i get some time ill talk it over with some friends and we'll see what we can do for you :) want to contribute back to this community...I've always had the feeling that people with differing login names and display names chose to do so for a reason (like not revealing any login details). You can always just escape display names to form proper URLs anyway. It's not pretty, but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rοb Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I actually wrote a small mod for cynicdavid that allows yoursite.com/members/nickname type urls.Demo: http://ww2.oasiz.net/members/test656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Elliott Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I actually wrote a small mod for cynicdavid that allows yoursite.com/members/nickname type urls.Demo: http://ww2.oasiz.net/members/test656And root admin user at that site " Ċ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rοb Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yeah that was a unicode test, copied it from one of my members. Like i said earlier, this kind of hack is only really going to work for board admins who allow only alphanumeric characters in the display names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 http://ww2.oasiz.net/members/%C4%8A%C3%A5%...%99%C5%91%C5%B5wow....just.....wowYeah, that url sure seems easier to remember to me. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rοb Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 lmao :PActually i didn't try that one, looks fine to me in IE7 ;)...oasiz.net/members/Ċ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shomazta Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 can i get that mod xD i don't currently require/enforce alpha-numeric but i can easily change that :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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