phpBB2 by Przemo

[Crack]

As there aren't here many mods in English I created just one topic for my two SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ones. Should there appear any more mods having an English translation, I will create a separate sub-forum for them.

Google Sitemaps
Current version: 1.4
Download: http://www.przemo.org/php...tion=file&id=39

Generates XML files for Google Sitemaps service avaible at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/


Spider Friendly
Current version: 1.3.12
Download: http://www.przemo.org/php...ion=file&id=101
Package with premodified files (for Przemo 1.12.6): http://www.przemo.org/php...oad.php?id=5767
.patch file for automated forum files modification (for Przemo 1.12.6): http://www.przemo.org/php...oad.php?id=5768


This modification improves forum indexing by search engines. Some of its functions:

• rewrites addresses to more "spider friendly", eg. viewtopic.php?t=6 (assuming that this topic's forum ID is 3) to 6.htm, topics3/6.htm, topic-title-vt6.htm or topics3/topic-title-vt6.htm
  
• removes double linking of posts: rewrites viewtopic.php?p=xxx to viewtopic.php?t=yyy (xxx - post's ID, yyy - topic's ID) [option]
  
• creates virtual subdirectories for forums [option]
  
• puts topics' titles and forums' names in URLs [option]
  
• eliminates some unnecessary links that can discourage bots from scanning forum (eg. "Who is Online", links to newest posts and topics' authors profiles)
  
• creates META tags (Keywords and Description) for each topic
  
• hides links unnecessary for bots (posting, email, private message, printview)
  
• adds sitemap for search engines - list of newest posts in all topics or list of all topics
  
• can change some forum options for bots by modifying $board_config variable
  
• prevents bot from following links placed in users' posts and signatures (after installing contrib/links_nofollow.txt)
  
• can log bots' visits to site and creates simple statistics

This modification does not increase your Page Rank, it only makes it easier for bots to scan your forum.

Please do not remove the link appearing in forum's footer when it is visited by bots.

I have tested this modification on phpBB modified by Przemo 1.12.5 and phpBB 2.0.20. If you know a little PHP and phpBB's structure you should have no problems with installing it on other versions.

Mod installation:

• manual - using instructions included in mod archive
  
• EasyMOD - mod installer for phpBB, mod archive contains an update for phpBB modified by Przemo recovering EasyMOD's links in ACP - http://area51.phpbb.com/p...d=&f=17&t=21309
  
• patch - only phpBB modified by Przemo - uses patch.exe - http://www.mame.net/zips/diff_patch.zip
  
• package - only phpBB modified by Przemo - package with premodified files
  

[Gadatliwa Kasia]

[Crack]

Google Sitemaps 1.1

Changes:
- removed dependency on .htaccess and mod_rewrite
- small fix in caching, on some servers cache may have been impossible to manually overwrite / delete by the user

[chicago]

I would also add one more thing for seo

Kod:

# #-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------ #  /templates/*yourtemplate*/overall_header.tpl   # #-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------ # <title>{SITENAME} :: {PAGE_TITLE}</title>   # #-----[ REPLACE, WITH  ]------------------------------------------ #    <title>{PAGE_TITLE}</title>   # #-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------ # /index.php   # #-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------ #   $page_title = $lang['Index'];   # #-----[ REPLACE, WITH  ]------------------------------------------ # $page_title = "Your Top 3 - keywords/keyphrases - seperated by hiphens";   # #-----[ SAVE/CLOSE ALL FILES ]------------------------------------------ # # EoM

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Spider Friendly 1.3.6

Bugfixes:
- if path in a template (href/src/background attribute) began with "/", it could be changed by the mod
- in english translation there wasn't an entry for sitemap
- virtual server - logging in from a page outside of the virtual server could lead to 404 page
- virtual server - if an url was passed to append_sid() twice it got changed to a non-working url
- phpBB modified by Przemo: redirect after entering password for forum/topic didn't work
- regression: SID not removed for bots

Changes:
- default virtual directory's name for topics changed to "topics"
- warning about sf_install.php in forum's root directory shown only to admins

Features:
- entire mod documentation is now avaible in English
- added separate .htaccess for home.pl servers
- new cache read mode for postlink rewriting: shared memory using PHP shmop module (useful on servers without any PHP accelerator)
- only one index address: redirects if necessary

[Crack]

Spider Friendly 1.3.7

Bugfixes:
- marking forums as read didn't work since 1.3.6

[Bronth]

i use easymod, and i can't install it on my forum..

[Crack]

Where do you get the error?

[Crack]

Spider Friendly 1.3.8

Bugfixes:
- redirection to correct index address fixed to handle index.htm to index.php redirection
- regression: cache benchmark in PA didn't work without shmop installed (since 1.3.6)
- phpBB modified by Przemo: sometimes installed mods list disappeared from check_files
- phpBB modified by Przemo: mistake in month numbering in detailed view of bots - relative date instead of year and month

Changes:
- minimum required PHP version changed to 4.1.0
- post to topic rewriting disabled by default
- added index on session_bot column in sessions table fo MySQL and PostgreSQL, I don't know the syntax for other DBMS

[SEFica]

i unistall spider frendly and i got this message.. can somebody help me.. please..

the forum is www.media-project.org

phpBB by Przemo : Critical Error

Error creating new session

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1054 Unknown column 'session_bot' in 'field list'

INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_bot, session_admin) VALUES ('057c00e9484b6d8345a48f15d78a9a95', -1, 1157207874, 1157207874, '53834120', 0, 0, '', 0)

Line : 461
File : sessions.php

[Crack]

"Uninstall" button in sf_install.php removes only database entries, you also have to remove mod from your forum's files.

[Crack]

Spider Friendly 1.3.9

Bugfixes:
- sometimes a part of forum's HTML was doubled
- virtual server is now compatible with PHP < 4.3
- removed hardcoded string from forum map

Changes:
- updated User-Agent parsing, now it will give more accurate bot name guesses
- decreased amounts of showed ads: now only 1 link
- updated .htaccess for OVH servers

New features:
- added bot exclusion list and revised bot list, fixes problems with: Advanced Searchbar, Alcohol Search, Alexa Toolbar, DoCoMo mobile devices, Firefox Bon Echo builds, Google WAP Proxy, IBM EVV, MSIECrawler, most mobile phones

[SEFica]

[Crack]

No, you have to replace your forum's files with the original ones or do the manual installaction backwards.

Spider Friendly 1.3.10

Bugfixes:
- bot exclusion caused script to stay in an infinite loop

[Crack]

Spider Friendly 1.3.11

Bugfixes:
- fixed bug allowing to execute external code on the server
- post to topic redirection in viewtopic.php didn't pass the fragment part of URL (users of FF were unaffected as this browser is able to correct this)
- vforum.php could include any filetype, changed to allow only .php files
- sorting stats in ACP wasn't PHP < 4.3 compatible

Changes:
- vforum.php moved to the contrib directory

[Gadatliwa Kasia]

[riverkqj]

SORTED PROBLEM SORRY