I would love route filters to be added to IPB. I used to use XenForo and I loved their route filter system. I would have maybe 10-20 route filters.

What do "route filters" do specifically in Xenforo? i.e. what are you after exactly?

What do "route filters" do specifically in Xenforo? i.e. what are you after exactly?

I think he is talking about URL Route Filters

....aaaaaannd that is?

Is it essentially this discussion: > ?

What do "route filters" do specifically in Xenforo? i.e. what are you after exactly?

So lets say I have the IP.Gallery addon. The default route is forum.com/gallery/. Route filters would allow me to change it to /photos or whatever I wanted. Same for any other URL, even for 3rd party addons.

yeah

So what you are asking for is a way to configure the friendly URLs basically?

yea. It's really a nice and powerful feature in XF.

The url in ipb(and probably ips4) it's always

app=x&module=y&section=bazinga&do=foo and there's no easy way to change this (sorry if i'm wrong, i'm really not THAT familiar with ipb3) e.g. what about a way to translate the url and change

/gallery/category/1-ipb-community-photos/

to

/fotos/kategorie/1-ipb-community-photos/

or what if somebody wants to translate the "page" part in the url?

forum/1-news-and-information/page-2

would become

forum/1-news-and-information/strana-2

in xenforo you don't have a strict url with app=x&xxx there are only route prefixes (e.g. member, forum, thread, post) and each of them have a own route class, responsible to build the url and also to resolve the variables and return the needed controller and action name, very similar to http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/routing.html and http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.10/en/zend.controller.router.html

And the filters allow you to manipulate the url without any additional addons http://xenforo.com/help/route-filters/

You can do this in 4.0 :)

really?

any more informations? (just to be sure that it's really that powerful like in xf)

You can do this in 4.0 :smile:

You can do this in 4.0 :smile:

That is great news. I missed having that functionality when going back and forth between Wordpress and IP.Board.

You can do this in 4.0 :smile:

Now supply more information please , how far is the support , i doubt i will have chance to get rid of greenseo but i think you made my life way easier :)

I'm not familiar with Xenforo's implementation so I'm not really sure how to answer that question.

Friendly URLs are totally customisable. There's a page in the ACP where you have a list of the "friendly URLs" and the query strings they "map" to (that is, what the URL would be if friendly URLs was turned off). You can edit them and add new ones - there's special tags you enter to indicate where parameters and the "SEO title" should go. It applies even to third party applications.

It doesn't do any backwards-compatibility. So if you change /gallery to /photos, the former won't redirect to the latter - you'd need to set up a forwarder using htaccess for incoming traffic from search engines.