JoomSEF 1.5.0 - Patched Download

Description:

Joomsef Meta Generator Fix/Modification for Joomsef Version 1.5.0

Background Joomsef is one of the best SEF components available for Joomla. SEF is "Search Engine Friendly". This is used to change the default Joomla URL's, like "index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=26&id=12&task=view" into URLS like "http://www.kangainternet.com.au/melbourne-website-design.html". Clearly SEF is vital in Search Engine Optimisation, reason, because search engines much prefer URL's like the latter. They rank them much higher, can understand them and also pick up on keywords in the URL itself. The Problem The problem with Joomsef is that although it is great it has a down side. The standard Joomsef component has advertising used in it and this is produced in the form of the Meta Generator tag in the pages displayed. This can affect website ranking in search engines. It also bloats the meta tag information with advertising. There can also be output at the bottom of the pages that have a link to the Joomsef website. The Joomsef component has a file called "signature.b64" included with it. this file is a base 64 encoded string that, when decoded, contains the HTML to link to Joomsef and the advert. Simply removing this file will not work, removing the file from within the code will not work so Kanga found another work around and directly modified the code. The code should now also be quicker as it doesnt do a all the processing, decoding, placement, checking and the display of the advert anymore. What the Joomsef team says: "The latest open-source version of JoomSEF may contain links to ARTIO webpages or some of the JoomSEF development sponsors. Based on our policy, the older versions of JoomSEF available from our pages will be kept free of these links. You can also get the latest version without links of the JoomSEF from our webshop" To gain a latest version without these sponsors shown in the output code you have to pay for it , that is unless you follow the directions in this patch at your own free will because this patch is. The Solution You need to locate the file "/components/com_sef/sef.php" and open it in a text editor. Replace the contents of the whole file with the following.

Or you can download the full download below.

More about web development Want to know more? Enquire here, or call us on 0419 220 309.

 

Submitted On:

26 Oct 2008

Submitted By:

cdiprose (cdiprose)

File Date:

25 Sep 2008

File Size:

515.91 Kb

File Type:

zip

Downloads:

10