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Handy little "tool" for those, who plan to move from Joomlaboard to Fireboard

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    Handy little "tool" for those, who plan to move from Joomlaboard to Fireboard

    Posted 17 years 3 months ago
    • While re-vamping my Site, I decided to move from Joomlaboard to Fireboard. However - the old Forum generated a good amount of Hits & Pagerank from Google, so I didn't want to dump that all, but rather redirect Joomlaboard-Hits to Fireboard.

      To do so, first off install FireBoard and import your Joomlaboard-Stuff (!). Now you can safely uninstall the Joomlaboard-Component and then create a directory called "/components/com_joomlaboard". In This directory, create a File called "joomlaboard.php" and here's the code for this File:
      <?php
/**
* joomlaboard to fireboard redirector
* (c) Chris Schafflinger
**/
 
$newItemID = "52"; // Insert Fireboard's ItemID here
 
// Dont allow direct linking
defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
 
$reloc = str_replace("joomlaboard","fireboard",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$reloc = str_replace("41",$newItemID,$reloc);
 
##### Uncomment the next 3 Lines to make the Redirect Joomla-SEF-Compliant
//$reloc = str_replace("index.php?","component/",$reloc);
//$reloc = str_replace("=",",",$reloc);
//$reloc = str_replace("&","/",$reloc);
 
header("Location: ".$reloc,TRUE,301);
?>

      Done - all Requests for Joomlaboard will be redirected to the same Threads/Forums etc. in Fireboard (of cause only if you imported everything from JB to FB and kept the structure) and - best of all - since it's a 301 redirect, Google et al will even transfer the Pagerank from your old Joomlaboard-Entries to Fireboard.
    • Last Edit: 17 years 3 months ago by Chris S.
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    Re: Handy little "tool" for those, who plan to move from Joomlaboard to Fireboard

    Posted 17 years 3 months ago
    • Very nice, sir!

      I am still on the fence with forums, but after reading that Fireboard creates a *brazillion* db calls when you have a dozen or so forum groups/categories/subs, I didn't put it on my shortlist; you don't find that it's a db killer? Perhaps I'll give it another look. :)
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