Removing session IDs for BHPBB furums

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Darksat

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Removing session IDs for BHPBB furums

« on: March 08, 2007, 11:41:33 am »

Fancy making your PHPBB forum more spider/Search Engine friendly?

find the file
includes/sessions.php

make a backup
open in text editor
FIND this line

Code:

$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id;

and REPLACE WITH

Code:

if ( $userdata['session_user_id'] != ANONYMOUS ){
$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id;
} else {
$SID = '';
}

this removes session IDs for users that are no logged in and makes the forum a lot more spider friendly for googlebot, etc.


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LennyP

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Re: Removing session IDs for BHPBB furums

« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2007, 11:50:15 pm »

I think this is an important mod for any forum. Google is probably your most important visitor so you want them to be able to read your site. I don't understand you need to modify the code instead of it being standard.