[bbDev] Custom permalinks patch

[Aditya Naik]

good point sam. but i think the way wordpress does permalinks is costlier
operation. it has multiple mod rewrite rules to process unlike bbpress.

but im nor sure how costlier the operations are. any one?


On 2/19/07, Sam Bauers <sam at viveka.net.au> wrote:
>
> I've been working on a patch to enable custom permalinks ( http://
> trac.bbpress.org/ticket/579 ) and I've hit a few architectural
> decision making points which I'd like to throw out there for input.
>
> The new methodology is basically going to require people to use
> mod_rewrite instead of having the choice between mod_rewrite and
> Options +MultiViews
>
> Options +MultiViews requires the first directory name to be the same
> as the script it calls, e.g.:
> * forum/123 will resolve to forum.php using MultiViews
> * mygreatforums/123 will never resolve to forum.php using MultiViews
>
> What do we think about breaking Options +MultiViews support?
> WordPress does not use it, it uses mod_rewrite only AFAIK.
>
> Also, I'm assuming that it would be safe to leave RSS feeds in their
> current uncustomisable state, although I don't mind adding them (it
> just makes the admin page a bit long). Does anyone have a differing
> opinion?
>
> Also, I have limited the support for custom permalinks to include the
> following defaults and variables:
>
> Forums
>    Default
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/forum.php?id=123
>    Numeric
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/forum/123
>    Custom
>    » %id% = Forum ID
>
> Topics
>    Default
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/topic.php?id=123
>    Numeric
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/topic/123
>    Custom
>    » %id% = Topic ID
>
> Profiles
>    Default
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/profile.php?id=123
>    Numeric
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/profile/123
>    Custom
>    » %id% = User ID
>
> Tags
>    Default
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/tags.php?tag=example
>    Name
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/tags/example
>    Custom
>    » %tag% = Tag name
>
> Views
>    Default
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/view.php?view=example
>    Name
>    » http://www.example.org/bbpress/view/example
>    Custom
>    » %view% = View name
>
> Page numbers
>    Default
>    » ...?page=6
>    Numeric
>    » .../page/6
>    Custom
>    » %page% = Page number
>
> I.e., there is no ability on forums and topics and members to create
> permalinks utilising their name or date created. These run into
> deeper issues like UTF-8 and character escaping, some insight into
> how to deal with this mght be found in the WordPress code though.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
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