What's new in Mys v1.3.3: Search-Engine Friendly URLs

Well I have yet to decide when Mys v1.3.3 will be released. It is planned to feature a new GUI system, a Breeding system Overhaul, and possibly a Customizable Module/Widget System if I manage to get it done.

Another interesting feature is this new url, which you probably already noticed in Mys v1.3.2's ACP. In Mys v1.3.3 however, the new url will be used for the main site too. What does it look like? Well, this is the old url format for viewing a user profile:

And the new url format is shown below:

There are generally a few differences. First of all, you do not enter something like .php at the end of the url address. This is not a significant change, but keep in mind that you may get a 404 page not found error if you accidentally type .php at the end. Dont worry though, I will find a way to resolve this possible issue.

Second, you do not see weird symbols like ? and & making up the query string. The query string instead, follows the format of page/action/param-1/param-2/.../param-n. This makes your web pages considerably more navigable to search engines, although this is not the main reason for rewriting urls(which has something to do with the MVC system, well thats too complicated to explain here lol).

Another quick note is that starting from Mys v1.3.3, the standard url will not contain 'www.'. The decision to use non www format url is to compensates for users running with subdomains. Adding a 'www.' in front of the subdomain may causes serious trouble. We already know it messes up with pagination, and there's more to it. For this reason its a better idea to stick to non www url format. In Mys v1.3.3 every url request that contains www. will be redirected to the url without www., I personally believe its a good move, let alone with the fact that cookies for www and non www web addresses are stored separately.

Also its important to note that with the new url system, your old dropdown menu and siggy links will not be working anymore. So for those running Mys v1.3.x and planning to upgrade, you will have to take care of the old deprecated urls after performing upgrade wizard. It shouldnt be difficult though, the new urls are easy to figure out. If it may sound tricky where the new siggy web addresses are located, here's a hint:

old URL:
new URL:
Hopefully you get the idea now, and if you still dont, go to myadopts/bbcode page to find the correct new siggy code. Anyway I better get to work now, merry christmas everyone.