Good Morning Dan,
It definately sounds like a conversion issue. It’s not one i’ve heard of before, but it shouldn’t be too hard to fix (though there is no existing pluign that I know of).
Baiscally you’re going to need a Title to Slug function, then iterate through every forum & topic and update the database accordingly
Basically, something like this:
$sql = "SELECT * from $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_slug ='' LIMIT 100";
$rows = $bbdb->get_rows($sql);
foreach($rows as $row)
{
$topic_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes($row['topic_title'],200);
$sql = "UPDATE $bbdb->topics SET topic_slug='". $topic_slug ."' WHERE topic_id=". $row['topic_id'] ." LIMIT 1; ";
}
So i’ve not tested this code at all, just guessing at it really.
It should update 100 topics at one page load.
(I do this incase i made a horrible mistake)
Then do the same for bb_forum table.
Kev
Thanks Kev, that’s a big help. I understand everything in that bit of code except the line
“$topic_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes($row,200);”
Would you care to enlighten me on how that would add dashes? I was thinking that I’d have to parse the topic_title field with regexp somehow (not great at regexp yet, just learning)then create the string. Is that what this represents?
Regards,
Dan White
The function itself adds the dashes and removes the blacklisted characters (or maybe allows only whitelisted characters).
http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php.source.html#239