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<P>I have made a major update to the ItemIDs of member-submitted pages. I have
replaced them with ones derived from an ASCIIfied version of each page's
Summary field. This provides most of them with a <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL#Slug">slug</A> that matches the full
name given for the page. ItemIDs have been changed in every table that uses
them, so that comments and other details are not lost. I also generated a
table matching each new ItemID with the old one, just in case I need it. I
already used it to update the Comment table when I realized it wasn't
called Comments, and I will later use it to update links to rules pages in
Game Courier presets. Another thing I plan to do is provide the code used
to generate the new slug-ready type of ItemID to scripts for submitting
content.</P>
Then if accessed by the old msdisplay.php (the new links seem not to use it) it should use that table to select the new ID from the old one so that old URLs will continue to work for compatibility purposes. (Due to this, the link for "Query Database" under the search menu currently does not work; I suggest both updating msdisplay.php and updating the menu.)
That's on my To-Do list, but I didn't realize it affected that link.
I fixed the link in the menu, but it looks like msdisplay.php could also use conversion to PDO. So I'll convert it to PDO and fix it at the same time.
The msdisplay.php script will now use the old ItemID if given to it, and it will redirect to the page's semantic canonical URL.
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