Simpler URL's for pagination.

The URI's generated my Pro News for pagination are large and not 100% "useful":

example:

Pro_News/mode=/sid=/cid=/page=2.html

And if you're seeing a category in particular: (Pro_News/cid=2.html)

Pro_News/mode=/sid=0/cid=2/page=2.html

Whats the point of those parameters if they're not useful even for Pro News on those cases?

Well the solution is simple:
/Pro_News/functions.php
line 1979 (V 3.3.26 Revision 3.39)
Find

pagination('Pro_News&mode='.($is_home ? 'home' : '').'&sid='.$sid.'&cid='.$cid.'&page=', $pages, 1, $page);

and Replace with:

pagination('Pro_News'.($is_home ? '&mode=home' : '').($sid ? '&sid='.$sid : '').($cid ? '&cid='.$cid :'').'&page=', $pages, 1, $page);

The you'll get shorter URI's:

Pro_News/cid=2/page=2.html (For Category 2)
Pro_News/mode=home/page=2.html (for Home, no category or section defined)

Category and Section parameters are only added to the URL when necessary.

greenday2k please enter your server specs in your user profile!

Thanks! Good mod.

Please keep them coming, I'm more than happy to accept and incorporate improvements to Pro_News. I want this to be a community project, that's why it's F/OSS!

Included in 3.3.2.7 - with attribution.

Note to all: If applying greenday2k's fix for yourselves note that you will also need to edit & into & a m p ; (without the spaces) as your browser reduced them to &. There should be 4 occurrences in that line. Without them you may get W3/Tidy warnings.

Thanks again!