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Hotscripts.com URLs
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http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/
http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/software-servers/

http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/apache2triad/

How hotscripts get URLs like this? Any plugin?
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Hi,

The easiest way to is to add a new field (Full_Name_LC), and populate it with a SQL query:

Code:
UPDATE glinks_Category SET Full_Name_LC = LOWER(Full_Name);

Then in Setup > Build Options, find:

build_category_format

And set to "Advanced", with the value: %Full_Name_LC%

This obviously requires you to re-run that SQL query if you edit the category names / add new categories etc.

Hope that helps

Cheers

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hotscripts.com was using GLinks (LinksSQL), however if I am not mistaken, right now they are using custom back-end solution. Regardless of how they are doing it, if you like that type of url structure, you can use Andy's suggestion. But importantly, I would recommend using keyword & category research for your site as that might perhaps enable you to create even more search engine friendly theme structure.

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Thanks Andy.

Right now my urls are like this:

Code:
First level example:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/index.shtml

Second level example:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/Folder-Two/more2.shtml

Detailed page example:
http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/2739.shtml


How this %Full_Name_LC% changes these URLs?
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Hi,

If you follow the instructions I gave you, it would change

First level example:
http://www.mysite.com/folder-one/index.shtml

Second level example:
http://www.mysite.com/folder-one/folder-two/more2.shtml

It won't affect the detailed pages (unless you update build_detail_url / build_detail_path in Setup > Build Options as well

Also - you would need to setup the 301 redirects from the old category URLs (to tell google they have moved), but thats only if the site is currently live and has been indexed by google etc

Cheers

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Andy: May 27, 2013, 12:38 AM
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Andy,

You just pasted my URLs in your post. How they change?
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Huh? They are lowercased Whistle

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Andy,

I didn't ask for lowercase.

If you see the URLs in my first post, they are 'folder' like. Even listing also. there is no .shtml extention.
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Hi,

You didn't ask for that ;) You just gave some URL examples... so I guessed based on that what you were after Whistle

To do what you are asking for category URLS, in version 3.2+ you can do:

Setup > Build Options > build_index_include => No

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Andy (mod)
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Setup > Build Options > build_index_include => No

Is that simple. Huh? :)

How these URLs change if I select above option?


Code:
First level example:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/index.shtml

Second level example:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/Folder-Two/more2.shtml

Detailed page example:
http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/2739.shtml

Thnx.
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Hi,

All that would do, is change:

Quote:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/index.shtml

to:

Quote:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/

i.e remove index.shtml from it

The rest are not simple to do (and not advised, as it would break other parts of the system)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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So what you are saying is there won't be any effect on these two URLs. Right?


Code:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/Folder-Two/more2.shtml
http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/2739.shtml
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Yup.
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I can acheive these type of links by a mod?

Andy, you can write a mod? Your fee?

Code:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/Folder-Two/more2.shtml
http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/2739.shtml

TO:

Code:
http://www.mysite.com/Folder-One/Folder-Two/more2/

http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/link-name/
(assuming I selected 'build_detail_format' > 'Advanced' > and put something in there.)
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Hi,

The detailed pages you can't really do, as the ID number *needs* to be in them. You can change it to something more like:

http://www.mysite.com/Detailed/Link_Title_2739.shtml

...using the build_detail_format option (there are quite a few options in there for you to select from)

The "more2.html" one isn't really possible (at least not without making some quite large changes to the code that generates all those URLs)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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LinksSQL is very advanced link indexing system. And yet, there is no option for 'directory' like URLs. Mad
Now a days, most CMS, Link indexing scripts, directory scripts - All have these directory type URLs.
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You mean for detailed pages? There is no way possible to know what link you are loading, just based on the title... which is why it requires you to include %ID% in the URL somewhere (so it has a way to extract which link its meant to be showing in dynamic mode)

ALL systems will have this problem - its not just a GLinks issue Whistle

Cheers

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No Andy.
I am not talking abot LinkID in URLs. ID numbers is not I am after. It doesn't matter if ID is in URL or not.

I want the URLs to be directory like.
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What do you mean by "directory like" ? It would mean anything Ninja

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There won't be any extention like .shtml, .html, .php etc. Both for category pages and Detailed pages.

See my original post.
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Hi,

Are you using dynamic or static pages? (i.e are you running "Build" after changes, or do you not need to run builds for the updates to show up?)

Its not a simple thing to do (the "morexxx.html stuff like scripts/php/software-servers/software/page:2/ could probably be done using some rewrite)

Same for detailed pages - http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/webasyst-framework-136868/ - I think I could get that working as well (again, not the simplest of things to do)

I would need to play around with this on my dev install to see how we can achieve this though. Please email me if you would like me to look into this, and get you a rough price.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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