SMF URL schema change

[budun]

Hello,

 

I am using SMF 2.0 RC3. I want to rewrite the SMF URLs in the following way:

 

index.php?topic=369616.0 >> index.php?t=369616

index.php?action=profile;u=53626 >> index.php?u=53626

 

I think I should be editing the last part of QueryString.php file, probably $buffer.

 

This is the original code:

// Rewrite URLs to include the session ID.
function ob_sessrewrite($buffer)
{
global $scripturl, $modSettings, $user_info, $context;

// If $scripturl is set to nothing, or the SID is not defined (SSI?) just quit.
if ($scripturl == '' || !defined('SID'))
	return $buffer;

// Do nothing if the session is cookied, or they are a crawler - guests are caught by redirectexit().  This doesn't work below PHP 4.3.0, because it makes the output buffer bigger.
// !!! smflib
if (empty($_COOKIE) && SID != '' && empty($context['browser']['possibly_robot']) && @version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '4.3.0') != -1)
	$buffer = preg_replace('/"' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '(?!\?' . preg_quote(SID, '/') . ')\\??/', '"' . $scripturl . '?' . SID . '&', $buffer);
// Debugging templates, are we?
elseif (isset($_GET['debug']))
	$buffer = preg_replace('/(?<!<link rel="canonical" href=)"' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '\\??/', '"' . $scripturl . '?debug;', $buffer);

// This should work even in 4.2.x, just not CGI without cgi.fix_pathinfo.
if (!empty($modSettings['queryless_urls']) && (!$context['server']['is_cgi'] || @ini_get('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 1 || @get_cfg_var('cgi.fix_pathinfo') == 1) && ($context['server']['is_apache'] || $context['server']['is_lighttpd']))
{
	// Let's do something special for session ids!
	if (defined('SID') && SID != '')
		$buffer = preg_replace('/"' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '\?(?:' . SID . '(?:;|&|&))((?:board|topic)=[^#"]+?)(#[^"]*?)?"/e', "'\"' . \$scripturl . '/' . strtr('\$1', '&;=', '//,') . '.html?' . SID . '\$2\"'", $buffer);
	else
		$buffer = preg_replace('/"' . preg_quote($scripturl, '/') . '\?((?:board|topic)=[^#"]+?)(#[^"]*?)?"/e', "'\"' . \$scripturl . '/' . strtr('\$1', '&;=', '//,') . '.html\$2\"'", $buffer);
}

// Return the changed buffer.
return $buffer;
}

 

I tried something like:

 

$buffer = strtr($buffer, "topic", "t");

 

This doesn't change anything in the URLs. Should I be using preg_replace instead of strtr? I will be pleased if someone could give an idea.

 

Thanks.

[katierosy]

It is good to use .htaccess URLrewrite method here

[budun]

Thank you for your interest. As far as I know, Apache mod_rewrite (in .htaccess file) is URL redirection. So, I am supposed to direct the old URL's to the new ones in .htaccess file after I change the way SMF codes URLs.