Forum: URL rewriting ?
Posted: 05 January 2008 12:31 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi,

In my EE Forum, Is it possible to have an URL such as /forums/title_of_post/ instead of /forums/viewforum/61/ ?

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Posted: 06 January 2008 09:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Can nobody help me ?

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Posted: 08 January 2008 03:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Yes ? No ?

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Posted: 08 January 2008 08:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Posted: 10 January 2008 10:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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By its nature a forum really doesn’t lend itself well to URL Titles.  Potentially way too many threads with the same URL Title which means you need to start checking for duplicates which means you need to start tacking on numbers to the end which means every time someone posts you are looking at an additional query at least which means on a busy forum the performance drops.

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Posted: 12 October 2008 02:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Jamie Poitra - 10 January 2008 10:22 PM

By its nature a forum really doesn’t lend itself well to URL Titles.  Potentially way too many threads with the same URL Title which means you need to start checking for duplicates which means you need to start tacking on numbers to the end which means every time someone posts you are looking at an additional query at least which means on a busy forum the performance drops.

Jamie

vBulletin handles this fine, and would put money on it that it performs as good or exceedingly better than EE Forums.  VBulletin is about as fast and scalable as you can get for forums, and it fully supports titles in the url.

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