Category show up within blog entries

[Raziel_LOK]

After searching alot and triyng to put the categories o show inside each blog entry, without success. Most because i'm not familiar with php and SQL. So any tip that can help me to put the category of a blog entrie like the image attached will be appreciated. The category on the page is marked with a red line. Thank you.

Tags would do this job too, but I was not able to direct the correct function to return the category name of the blog_id entry. I barely can understand the functions structure of the "User Blog Mod" includes for now.

[EXreaction]

Doing that with the categories would be very difficult and would require a lot of php/sql knowledge, but it should not be too difficult with the tags.

It should only require some simple editing of this function in blog/plugins/tags/functions.php:

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function tags_blog_handle_data_end(&$args)
{
   global $user, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx;

   $tags = array();
   foreach (get_tags_from_text(blog_data::$blog[$args['ID']]['blog_tags']) as $tag)
   {
      $tags[] = '<a href="' . append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}blog.$phpEx", 'page=tag&amp;tag=' . $tag) . '">' . $tag . '</a>';
   }

   if (sizeof($tags))
   {
      $args['EXTRA'] .= '<br /><strong>' . $user->lang['TAGS'] . '</strong>: ' . implode(' &#8226; ', $tags);
   }
}


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$args['EXTRA'] .= '<br /><strong>' . $user->lang['TAGS'] . '</strong>: ' . implode(' &#8226; ', $tags);

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$args['TOP_TAG_LIST'] .= implode(' • ', $tags);

Then in the blog html body where the rest of the data is outputted, you should be able to use the TOP_TAG_LIST template variable to output the list wherever you want

[Raziel_LOK]

Thank you it worked like a charm. You need to use {row.TOP_TAG_LIST} to work ont each blog entry.

Still need to make some changes on the main page, but here is the page I'm trying to work: http://fgs.net.br/fgsforum/blog

I really want to start working with PHP and SQL, I'm familiar with programming but web applications still blowing upmy mind. Any thoughts from where I should start?

Anyway thnk you for all the help.

[EXreaction]

Glad that worked.

It may be good to borrow a book or two on PHP from a local library and go through them. That and just experimenting with code might be about the best way to learn. PHP is similar to compiled languages such as C and the many other languages based on C, so if you're familiar with that it shouldn't be too much to learn to get started at least.