New friendly URLs

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I've created a new URL scheme that will cut down on the length of URLs so people can link to pages more easily. It also makes more sense than the old scheme.


Instead of http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... wforum&f=3

you'll now have:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/forum3.html

Also, I've changed the site to include the forum and post titles in the title of your web browser window.

I take it all the older URLs still work?

Thanks alex! It's very helpful.

That is great


There are still problems with the pagination on things like the viewing a members posts. The search needs to be reinstated, optimise it by all means. The google search is unusable and chances are you are searching for something obscure and end up hitting your head against the wall in despair. There are some other problems but I forget what. Nothing major.

Works great. Thanks.

It don’t know if you have FULLTEXT indexing yet. MySQL 5+ is optimised use that. You can tweak the stoplist and minword length. There are also embedded search engines that might offer you better performance. You would expect phpBB to be pretty sound in the db so should be ok to mod. To be honest I don't mind waiting that little bit longer for a good search if you want to prioritise requests, because you save time in relevance. Putting a smaller LIMIT option can speed it up quite a lot. In other words just get it to return less result per page. If you are using FULLTEXT don't put and ORDER BY cause that will slow it down it sorts on relevance anyway. The SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS, FOUND_ROWS() combination is faster than using COUNT() for the total number of results. If your table contains many columns of data, one idea is just to create a temporary table just containing the columns you need and index that for you search. Sub-selects/derivatives would almost certainly be slower than using an optimised temporary table, as they are generally. Alternatively you could have 1 to 1 split tables for the search optimisation though that is bordering on de-normalising. Another idea I thought of is although the FULLTEXT is sorted by relevance you can qualify the search differently before it has even started by having a compulsory drop down for each year (or whatever duration). So then what you can do and create a temporary table with just the column data limited by the year then you do a full text search on that. On the results pages you can put the dropdown under the pagination as well or have next year previous year links.

This really looks better

The pagination seemed to work ok for me, when I tried yesterday.

I have this problem with 'View posts since last visit' and it seems it is still like that, after viewing or replying a post, I click again, and I don't see any post, or just get the posts since the time time I view the last post.

yep that issue is because the cookie is removed in the wrong order.

When searching/browsing the highlight feature is really useful to find a word(s) in thread. Though the colour is not good it is the same colour as the background almost. But with the new URLs the highlight feature is not there.

From looking at one of my posts I have clicked on one and highlighted the word 'eye'. It does this automatically in the defualt search.

The old way:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... hlight=eye

new way comes out like this:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp927306. ... hlight=eye

‘Eye' is not highlighted. I've tried quite a few variations to try to get it to work but doesn't correspond with anything in your server rules/.htaccess file.