[iLoveHouseMusic]

Just sharing this custom mod with you all. I'm gonna warn you YMMV on this because obviously this is custom to my site and PJ2 template but with this info you should be able to make it work. I'm sure there are different ways to do this so feel free to comment, maybe we can improve this method.

STEP 1. Add this to your .htaccess near the bottom

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#events RewriteRule ^eid([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/$ /ranking.php?mode=event&event_id=$1&old_events=true&row_template=event.tpl [QSA,L]

Your row template may vary depending on what Skin you're using. Also the old_events=true is so that the link is still viewable after the event is over.

STEP 2. Add this code to the TOP of the tpl that links to the main event.tpl. In the case of PJ2, this is on the row templates (event_row, event_gallery_row etc). regex_replace is part of smarty

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{assign var="RM1"   value=$EVENT_TITLE|trim|strtolower|replace:'?':''} {assign var="RM2"   value=$RM1|regex_replace:"@[^a-z0-9]@i":' '} {assign var="RM3"   value=$RM2|regex_replace:"@\s+@i":' '} {assign var="EVENTSEO"   value=$RM3|replace:' ':'-'}

STEP3. Change your <a href> links appropriately. In my case:

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<a href="{$JAMROOM_URL}/eid{$EVENT_ID}/{$EVENTSEO}/" title="{$EVENT_TITLE}"><span class="highlight-txt">{$EVENT_TITLE}</span></a>

STEP4. had to make a minor edit the comment.php so that comments refresh properly
Find this line on comment.php

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$url = rtrim($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'/') .'#form';

And remove the trailing slash

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$url = rtrim($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'') .'#form';

I want to stop right here and warn you that I already have MOST of my other skin related content pages (blogs, events, videos, articles) rewriting the URL so if you have commenting enabled on those content pages be weary of this. Again, I'm thinking maybe there's a better approach to this but this is what works for me.

STEP 5. OPTIONAL - When a user saves/edits an event, I have the re-written Event URL posted at the top of the form so that the user can easily click to the new content page to see results. To do this you edit the calendar.php
Find this line

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jmLinkCell($language['calendar'][55], $eventidLink);

And add this code directly ABOVE it

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$cleanET      = preg_replace("@[^a-z0-9]@i", " ", strtolower($_cal['event_title']));    $cleanET      = preg_replace("@\s+@i", " ", $cleanET);    $cleanET      = str_replace(' ', '-', $cleanET);    $eventidLink  = '<a href="'.$jamroom['jm_htm'].'/eid' . $_cal['event_id'] . '/' . $cleanET.'/" target="_blank">'.$jamroom['jm_htm'].'/eid' . $_cal['event_id'] . '/' . $cleanET.'/</a>';         jmLinkCell($language['calendar'][55], $eventidLink);

The one "problem" I'm having is that if a user adds an event with a special character at the end of title, for instance

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The Big Show @ Club Douchbag with DJ Cowboy Hat (Atlanta GA)

The event URL translates to:

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domain.com/eid123/the-big-show-club-douchbag-with-dj-cowboy-hat-atlanta-ga-/

It's more aesthetics but I'm trying to drop that trailing "-" If anyone can shed some light on that that'd be cool.

You may peep my site to see this all live. ENJOY!

Brian

[whodaniel]

I'm curious what JR team has to say about your method; Is it more SEO friendly? And if so should changes to to core be considered?

[iLoveHouseMusic]

I think if Jamroom Developers tackled this they would take a completely different approach.

What I've done is more of a workaround.

[iLoveHouseMusic]

I can comment on this - If the event is added with enough time for google to index the page (for instance, 1 month early), I _HAVE_ had my site come up in google page 1 when searching specifically for that event.

I would think that the title has something to do with that. Obviously, my site is not solely dedicated to that 1 event, but the point is, the hit/connection was made.

Now imagine that for blog titles, video titles, etc...

[musichive-net]

Hi,

Nice idea.

Mike

Sorry for spamming but bookmarks get lost and I can always check my posts to find this topic