[Mod] Search Engine Friendly URLs aka Short URLs

[k1lljoy]

Just use the code, I believe provided somewhere in this topic, that would switch off sessionid for the bots only...If I recall correctly that code is based on "treat bots as members" mod or something like that..
Sorry, I don't have time at the moment to be more specific, but it's there

Thanks, Vano, but that solution works only for search-bots, and as far as I know - even they are still getting sessionids on their first visit...not to say about the simple visitors...
And I want to get rid of that sessionid completely, so theat nobody could never see it again  

I tried different methods, and must say now, that right now I've just undone the changes in includes/sessions.php, which i described here: http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=6729.msg144014#msg144014
that is - I've made it look like:

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  if ($this->mode == "get" && strstr($url, $this->session_id)) {
      $url .= strpos($url, '?') !== false ? '&' : '?';
      $url .= SESSION_NAME."=".$this->session_id;
    }
    if (!empty($l)) {
      $url .= strpos($url, '?') ? '&' : '?';
      $url .= "l=".$l;
    }And all the sessions are gone now!  

I really do not know, maybe this snippet of code is wrong in some way, inappropriate or something else, but right now ny site works fine and the sessionids' are gone - so it turned out to be a solution for me.
 So - if someone wants to get rid of sessionsids' completele - You should probably try it as well  

[V@no]

just remove
      $url .= strpos($url, '?') !== false ? $amp : "?";
      $url .= SESSION_NAME."=".$this->session_id;

[MrAndrew]

Works fine, THANKS

But, can i do next:

From:
http://my.domain/img990.htm?l=russian

To:
http://my.domain/photo/{additional fields}/image_id

Or simething like that???

[muhammet93]

I have a question.
For example, ý have cars category, and inside it there is a picture named renault.
I want to use www.domainname.com/cars/renault link to enter to the picture.Is that possible?

[V@no]

[MOD] Google Friendly Urls For 4images Best Seo Mod

[MrAndrew]

1 question.

 Ok. All work done. But how to merge together this: http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=6729.msg57268#msg57268 and this: http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=6729.msg48487#msg48487

Please can you give me ready code?

1.1 question

This is my path.  How will be see this path after merging?
 RewriteRule ^img/(.*)/([0-9]+)/ details.php?image_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}


Thanks!

[V@no]

[MOD] Google Friendly Urls For 4images Best Seo Mod

What exactly you want to merge?

[MrAndrew]

I made this type of my links http://domain.ru/photo-uzbekistan-airways-boeing-767-3cb(28er)29-2746.htm

Before it link was: http://domain.ru/img1676.htm

Now this link is not available and get error 404. http://domain.ru/img1676.htm May i do a redirect? If, yes. How?

Many thanks

[V@no]

The simplest solution would be just leave support for the old type of URLs:

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RewriteRule ^img([0-9]+)\.htm$ details.php?image_id=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^img([0-9]+)\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.htm$ details.php?image_id=$1&mode=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}


[MrAndrew]

Why do you think that? Is it not better in terms of SEO optimization? Thanks for code!

[V@no]

no, it is not better, but at least you don't get 404 errors It's just the simplest way.

The more difficult way is to redirect from within details.php and it is not very optimized way either. If you still want go that way, I may try cook something for you later today.

[MrAndrew]

Ok, will be very interesting to try and finished this. I`ll be awaiting for you. Thanks V@no!

[V@no]

ok, here it is.
in htaccess add these lines:

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RewriteRule ^img([0-9]+)\.htm$ details.php?image_id=$1&old&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^img([0-9]+)\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.htm$ details.php?image_id=$1&mode=$2&old&%{QUERY_STRING}
In details.php find:
require(ROOT_PATH.'includes/sessions.php');

Insert below :
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['old']))
{
  unset($HTTP_GET_VARS['old']);
  $query = "";
  foreach($HTTP_GET_VARS as $key => $val)
  {
    $query .= "&" . $key . "=" . $val; 
  }
  $query = trim($query, "&");
  header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
  redirect(ROOT_PATH . "details.php" . ($query ? "?" . $query : ""));
}

[MrAndrew]

Special thanks this work perfectly. And last question:

In my details.html i show to users link to the photo throught this code

<a href="<?=$site_sess->url(ROOT_PATH."details.php?image_id={image_id}")?>">http://domain.ru/<?=$site_sess->url(ROOT_PATH."details.php?image_id={image_id}")?></a>

Why this path show me this type of link?

http://domain.ru/./photo-vim-airlines-ilyushin-il-62m-1676_

 Where i need to delete ./?

[V@no]

because of ROOT_PATH constant.
This should work:

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<a href="<?=$site_sess->url("details.php?image_id={image_id}")?>">http://domain.ru/<?=$site_sess->url("details.php?image_id={image_id}")?></a>
but keep in mind, this type of URL will contain sessionid= if cookies are blocked or on very first visit the page, this is not recomended for links that visitors would use to share with others.
A possible work around this issue is use this instead:

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<?php
$backupGet = $site_sess->get;
$site_sess->get = "cookie";
?>
<a href="<?=$site_sess->url("details.php?image_id={image_id}")?>">http://domain.ru/<?=$site_sess->url("details.php?image_id={image_id}")?></a>
<?php
$site_sess->get = $backupGet;
?>