Shortcuts to topic areas

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Not sure if this has been suggested before but how about some shortcuts to the topic areas, e.g., the following urls could redirect to their respective forum category :

www.boards.ie/sci (redirects to sci-fi and fantasy)
www.boards.ie/web (redirects to webmaster)

CuLT

Its useful for IOFFL , ( www.boards.ie/irelandoffline ) and Know Your Nerds ( www.boards.ie/nerds ) , but i think putting it on all forums would be time consuming and ultimately, not worth the effort.

Thats what the Subbed forum list is for .

smiles

www.boards.ie/ctyi goes to ctyi and always has.

<< Fio >>

dahamsta

(The original code would have thrown an error because vBulletin munged the escapes in the preg_ functions. I've replaced the delimiters with pipes.)

[PHP]<?php

/**
* vBulletin Shortcut Handler
*
* Copyright (C) 2003 Adam Beecher <beecher.net>.
* You can do anything bar remove the copyright.
*
* The script can be called by an Apache ErrorDocument handler or a
* RewriteRule. Regi or ecksor will know how to do this. The input
* is simply the forum name with all non-alphanumeric chars removed.
*
* Originally developed for Foot.ie <foot.ie/inc/php/shortcuts.php>.
*
*/

// Change to the vBulletin base directory.
chdir('/home/sites/foot.ie/web/forums');

// You could use the vBulletin DB class, I just think it's ****. PEAR rocks.
require_once 'DB.php';
require_once 'admin/config.php';

// DB connection stuff.
$db = DB::connect("mysql://$dbusername:$dbpassword@$servername/$dbname");
$db->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
if (DB::isError($db)) exit($db->getMessage());

// Get a list of the forums. Exclude inactive forums. There
// should probably be more in the WHERE clause but **** it.
$forums = $db->getAll('SELECT displayorder,forumid,title,parentid FROM forum WHERE active=1');

// The URI here is the path from docroot of this script. If this doesn't match the
// REQUEST_URI, the request must have come via the ErrorDocument or RewriteRule.
if ( ($uri = getenv('REQUEST_URI')) != '/inc/php/shortcuts.php') {
// This matches on a URI like /f/SHORTCUT, i.e. request via RewriteRule.
if (preg_match('|^/f/(.*)$|', $uri, $matches)) {
$shortcut = $matches[1];
} else {
// This matches on /SHORTCUT, i.e. request via ErrorDocument.
$shortcut = preg_replace('|^/([^/]+).*$|', "$1", $uri);
}
// Loop throught the luvverly forums.
for($h=0; $h<count($forums); $h++) {
// Default location.
$location = '/forums/';
// If we get a match, tack on the forumdisplay part and forumid.
if ($shortcut == preg_replace('|[^0-9a-z-]|', '', strtolower($forums[$h]))) {
$location .= 'forumdisplay.php?forumid=' . $forums[$h];
break;
}
}
// Day Day!
header("Location: $location");
// Just in case.
exit();

// If the REQUEST_URI DOES match the script path (from docroot), generate a listing...
} else {
// Do stuff with the parents. Can't remember what. <grin>
for($i=0; $i<count($forums); $i++) {
if ($forums[$i] == -1) {
$parents[] = $forums[$i];
}
}
sort($parents);
// Generate the list. Nicely indented, amn't I pretty! One problem though,
// it doesn't recurse properly. One day I'll add that in.
$output = "<ul>\n";
for($j=0; $j<count($parents); $j++) {
$title = $parents[$j];
$url = 'http://foot.ie/' . preg_replace('|[^0-9a-z-]|', '', strtolower($title));
$output .= " <li><a href=\"$url\"><b>$title</b></a>: <small>$url</small></li>\n";
$output .= " <ul>\n";
for($k=0; $k<count($forums); $k++) {
if ($forums[$k] == $parents[$j]) {
$children[] = $forums[$k];
}
}
sort($children);
for($l=0; $l<count($children); $l++) {
$title = $children[$l];
$url = 'http://foot.ie/' . preg_replace('|[^0-9a-z-]|', '', strtolower($title));
$output .= " <li><a href=\"$url\"><b>$title</b></a>: <small>$url</small></li>\n";
}
$output .= " </ul>\n";
unset($children);
}
$output .= "</ul>\n";
}

// Day Day Database!
$db->disconnect();

// My script wraps this up in a static embedded template,
// I'm just printing it so you can see the result.
echo $content;

?>[/PHP]http://foot.ie/corkcity
http://foot.ie/premierdivision
http://foot.ie/forfans

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Originally posted by CuLT


Thats what the Subbed forum list is for .

Yes but what if you're not on the site and want to skip the home page altogether - a shortcut would be handy.