Page navigation links

When I set up the "Sort topics by:" as "New topics" in my profile, links to topic pages (2,3,4,5...) appear broken. ".html" is missing

Example: http://www.work-at-home-forum.com/2_2

Yes there is such bug... Fixed now in 2.1b. Thanks for the reporting.

Manual fix: edit bb_func_vtopic.php file and locate the line saying:

if(isset($mod_rewrite) and $mod_rewrite and $sortBy==0) $urlp="{$main_url}/{$forum}_";
else $urlp="{$main_url}/{$indexphp}action=vtopic&forum=$forum&sortBy={$user_sort}&page=";

change $sortBy to $user_sorting so it says:

if(isset($mod_rewrite) and $mod_rewrite and $user_sort==0) $urlp="{$main_url}/{$forum}_";
else $urlp="{$main_url}/{$indexphp}action=vtopic&forum=$forum&sortBy={$user_sort}&page=";

Hi Paul,

Now the navigation urls are not mod-rewrited and appear as dynamic ones.

Vishal

It is the way like they should appear if you sort by New Topics. If you check default sorting by New Topics clicking on the link (not setting this in the profile), you will see it also works that way.

The question is... why?

The mod-rewritten URL is set by default for "Newest Replies" sorting. For example it will be 1_0.html, 1_1.html etc. If we would use the same URLs for "Newest Topics" mode, they would be the same - 1_0.html, 1_1.html etc. But the page's content would be difrerent. I.e. you would refer to the same URLs but with different content.

Doesn't it remind you the Google penalties? ;-)

Oh got it!

Thanks.