How to display blog entries on a different phpBB3 page

[EXreaction]

Setting up a display of the blog entries on a phpBB3 page is quite easy to do.

In this I will write up a quick tutorial on how to add a list of the 5 most recent blog entries on the index page below the forum list.

Open: index.php

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// Output page

Before, Add:

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// Output Blog Entries
$blog_limit = 5;

$user->add_lang(array('mods/blog/common', 'mods/blog/view'));
include($phpbb_root_path . 'blog/functions.' . $phpEx);
$blog_data = new blog_data();

$recent_blog_ids = $blog_data->get_blog_data('recent', 0, array('limit' => $blog_limit));
$blog_data->get_user_data(false, true);
update_edit_delete();
if ($recent_blog_ids !== false)
{
   foreach ($recent_blog_ids as $id)
   {
      $template->assign_block_vars('recent_blogs', array_merge($blog_data->handle_user_data(blog_data::$blog[$id]['user_id']), $blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit'])));
   }
}

Open: styles/prosilver/template/index_body.html

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<!-- INCLUDE forumlist_body.html -->

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<!-- IF .recent_blogs -->
<div class="post bg3" style="text-align: center;">
   <span class="corners-top"><span></span></span>
      <strong>{L_RECENT_BLOGS}</strong>
   <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span>
</div>
<!-- BEGIN recent_blogs -->
   <div class="post bg1<!-- IF recent_blogs.S_REPORTED or recent_blogs.S_UNAPPROVED --> reported<!-- ENDIF --><!-- IF recent_blogs.S_DELETED --> deleted<!-- ENDIF -->" <!-- IF recent_blogs.POST_COLOR and not recent_blogs.S_REPORTED and not recent_blogs.S_UNAPPROVED and not recent_blogs.S_DELETED -->style="background-color: {recent_blogs.POST_COLOR}"<!-- ENDIF -->>
      <div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span>

      <div class="postbody" style="width: 100%;">
         <!-- IF recent_blogs.S_UNAPPROVED or recent_blogs.S_REPORTED -->
            <p class="rules">
               <!-- IF recent_blogs.S_UNAPPROVED -->{UNAPPROVED_IMG} <a href="{recent_blogs.U_APPROVE}"><strong>{L_UNAPPROVED}</strong></a><!-- ENDIF -->
               <!-- IF recent_blogs.S_REPORTED -->{REPORTED_IMG} <a href="{recent_blogs.U_REPORT}"><strong>{L_REPORTED_SHORT}</strong></a><!-- ENDIF -->
            </p>
         <!-- ENDIF -->

         <dl>
            <dt>
               <strong><!-- IF recent_blogs.S_HAS_POLL --><img src="{T_THEME_PATH}/images/blog/icon_poll.gif" style="float: right;" alt="" /> <!-- ENDIF --><a href="{recent_blogs.U_VIEW}">{recent_blogs.TITLE}</a></strong> {L_POST_BY_AUTHOR} <strong>{recent_blogs.USER_FULL}</strong>  {L_POSTED_ON_DATE} {recent_blogs.DATE} <br />
               <div class="content" style="width: 95%; padding: 4px;">{recent_blogs.MESSAGE}</div>

               <!-- IF recent_blogs.S_HAS_ATTACHMENTS -->
                  <dl class="attachbox">
                     <dt>{L_ATTACHMENTS}</dt>
                  </dl>
               <!-- ENDIF -->

               <br clear="all" />
               <div>
                  <span class="num_replies">{recent_blogs.REPLIES}</span>
                  {recent_blogs.VIEWS}
               </div>
            </dt>
         </dl>
      </div>
      <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span>
   </div>
</div>
<!-- END recent_blogs -->
<!-- ENDIF -->

The main things you may like to change are the number of items displayed, and that can be changed by altering the $blog_limit in the code added to index.php, and how the blog entries are displayed. If you want them displayed in a different way you'll have to figure that out for yourself, but you can put the template code pretty much anywhere on the index_body you would like.

[bloggo]

Hello,
editing index.php I see this error when I log in as user and not as an administrator:

[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /blog/includes/functions_permissions.php on line 71: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /blog/includes/functions_permissions.php on line 71: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /blog/includes/functions_permissions.php on line 71: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object


Thanks for your help

Bloggo

[EXreaction]

I see, that is a bug. I'll fix that for the next version of the User Blog Mod, but until then,

Open
blog/includes/functions_permissions.php

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if (!array_key_exists($user_id, $zebra_list))

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if (!is_array($zebra_list) || !array_key_exists($user_id, $zebra_list))

[bloggo]

Thank you

[Acorn]

Brilliant! I can't tell you how many times I've come here hoping I'll be able to figure out how to do something, only to find out that you've already done it!

I'd like to make the recent entry list a bit more compact by removing the [ Continued ] and the blank lines above and below it from each entry. Could you tell me where and how to do this please?

Thank you.

[EXreaction]

Changing that just for this recent list would be rather difficult.

You'd have to take the $blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit']) code and set it into a separate array, then edit the text, then use that array in place of that code you had to copy above ($blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit'])).

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   foreach ($recent_blog_ids as $id)
   {
        $blog = $blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit']);
        // edit the blog text here.
        $template->assign_block_vars('recent_blogs', array_merge($blog_data->handle_user_data(blog_data::$blog[$id]['user_id']), $blog));
   }

[Acorn]

Oooooh. I think that's a bit beyond me. I'll have to decide whether to keep it as it is or make it a list of blog titles without the text.

Thanks for your help.

[dupko]

Changing that just for this recent list would be rather difficult.

You'd have to take the $blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit']) code and set it into a separate array, then edit the text, then use that array in place of that code you had to copy above ($blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit'])).

Basically:

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   foreach ($recent_blog_ids as $id)
   {
        $blog = $blog_data->handle_blog_data($id, $config['user_blog_text_limit']);
        // edit the blog text here.
        $template->assign_block_vars('recent_blogs', array_merge($blog_data->handle_user_data(blog_data::$blog[$id]['user_id']), $blog));
   }

Thats rly difficult,