A member's profile url should be the username

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Dog Cow
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Re: A member's profile url should be the username

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The solution to this problem is to include the User ID in the URL too and perform the SQL query based on this ID.

Issue a 301 redirect if the username in the URL is wrong or missing.
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Frug
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Re: A member's profile url should be the username

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I do wish phpbb had friendly URLs like this as part of the core. Lot of people finding easily avoidable or imo unimportant arguments against it. Meh.
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Re: A member's profile url should be the username

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Frug wrote:I do wish phpbb had friendly URLs like this as part of the core. Lot of people finding easily avoidable or imo unimportant arguments against it. Meh.
Right now the only things keeping it from happening are an issue with path resolution and having to completely rewrite the root-level user-facing files to work in the new controller system. Once those are done, URLs can be made "pretty". However, neither of those is necessarily planned for 3.1.
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Re: A member's profile url should be the username

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imkingdavid wrote:
Frug wrote:I do wish phpbb had friendly URLs like this as part of the core. Lot of people finding easily avoidable or imo unimportant arguments against it. Meh.
Right now the only things keeping it from happening are an issue with path resolution and having to completely rewrite the root-level user-facing files to work in the new controller system. Once those are done, URLs can be made "pretty". However, neither of those is necessarily planned for 3.1.
That's cool. I appreciate that you're giving it consideration.

Mainly for the forums themselves, I feel like it would be really nice to have a folder structure in the URLs mimic the forum structure because it would be more usable/easier to share links to forums. Posts I don't care so much about, though the SEO guys sure do.

I've been avoiding throwing one of the usual SEO mods onto my forum in the hopes that an easier/lighter weight solution would eventually arrive. I suppose I'll end up having to do so for 3.1.
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