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Latest Blog in Postbit Using Carp for vBulletin 4.x

This is an update for nevetS' mod for 3.5 at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91781 and gotlinks' update for 3.6 at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163718 to make it work in 4.x.

If you already have Carp Free or Carp LE or Carp Evolution, great. If not, you'll have to download a copy from http://carp.docs.geckotribe.com/download.php (Carp Free is now renamed Carp LE). If you need to install Carp first, golinks has some instructions at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163718 and there are of course more detailed instructions at http://carp.docs.geckotribe.com/

Now, modify your vBulletin installation.

1. Add three custom profile fields - in my setup, they are as follows, but make a note of the field# for later in case yours are different:

Name = Blog RSS Feed (RSS Only!)
Single-Line Text Box Editable, Searchable, Members field6
The member enters his blog feed here.
Latest Blog Title
Single-Line Text Box Searchable, Members field7
This is filled automatically by Carp with the latest blog post at that feed.
Blog URL
Single-Line Text Box Searchable, Members field8
This is the URL to the blog, filled by Carp and used in postbit to make the blog title a live URL.

2. Create a new plugin called Carp Configuration and attach it to hook location: global_bootstrap_init_start

PHP Code:


		
			
global $vbulletin;

require_once './carp/carp.php';

CarpConf('carperrors',0);

CarpConf('cacheinterval',3);

CarpConf('cborder','');

CarpConf('poweredby','');

CarpConf('maxitems',1);

CarpConf('iorder','link');

CarpConf('linktarget',1);

3. Create another plugin called Get Users Blog Entry and attach this to hook location: postbit_display_start

PHP Code:


		
			
global $vbulletin;

ob_start();

CarpCacheShow($post[field6]);

$blogentry = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

vB_Template::preRegister('postbit',array('blogentry' => $blogentry));

4. Edit postbit (and/or legacy):

Find:

PHP Code:


		
			
<vb:if condition="$post['rank']">

                        <span class="rank">{vb:raw post.rank}</span>

                    </vb:if>

Add after:

PHP Code:


		
			
<!-- latest blog hack -->

<vb:if condition="$post['field6']">

<span class="smallfont">Recent Blog: <a href="{vb:raw post.field8}" target="_blank">{vb:raw blogentry}</a></span>

</vb:if>

<!-- end latest blog hack -->

Remember to change field6 and field8 to correspond to the numbers of the custom fields for your forum.

For postbit_legacy, use this code instead (thanks to 993ti who posted this here:

PHP Code:


		
			
ob_start();  

CarpCacheShow($post[field6]);  

$blogentry = ob_get_contents();  

ob_end_clean();  

vB_Template::preRegister('postbit_legacy',array('blogentry' => $blogentry));

If you wish to restrict the latest blog display to only members in good standing, follow the instructions above but use the following code for postbit:

PHP Code:


		
			
<!-- latest blog hack for members in good standing only -->

<vb:if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid],array(G1,G2,G3,G4,G5))">

<vb:if condition="$post['field6']">

<span class="smallfont">Recent Blog: <a href="{vb:raw post[field8]}" target="_blank">{vb:raw blogentry}</a></span>

</vb:if>

</vb:if>

<!-- end latest blog hack for members in good standing only -->

Replace "G1,G2,G3,G4,G5" by the usergroup ID numbers of any groups who should NOT show the latest blog.

For example, I restrict privileges for new members for the first 10 posts so they don't get to display their blogs. Similarly, I don't want blog titles and links displayed for banned members.

Therefore, I disable this for the following groups:

New member (Registered Members): 2
Probation: 22
Banned: 20
Blocked: 30
Post Moderation: 28

so I would use the following code in postbit:

PHP Code:


		
			
<!-- latest blog hack for members in good standing only -->

<vb:if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid],array(2,20,22,28,30))">

<vb:if condition="$post['field6']">

<span class="smallfont">Recent Blog: <a href="{vb:raw post[field8]}" target="_blank">{vb:raw blogentry}</a></span>

</vb:if>

</vb:if>

<!-- end latest blog hack for members in good standing only -->

Nice mod, thx, comes in handy on my forum :)
Might want to add that if you use postbit_legacy the plugincode of Get Users Blog Entry should be

Code:

ob_start();  

CarpCacheShow($post[field6]);  

$blogentry = ob_get_contents();  

ob_end_clean();  

vB_Template::preRegister('postbit_legacy',array('blogentry' => $blogentry));

;)

Thanks, 993ti. Added in OP and credited to you. :)

I did everything, and the blog rss isn't showing, only the text "Recent Blog :" is showing up, no URL neither RSS title .. I did EVERYTHING without any expetion ! I even changed cache time to 1 minute and still nothing shown from my blog, here is the url of a thread where nothing shown in my profile http://www.blogging-talk.com/showthr...?t=3&p=4#post4

Now working very great when I used the postbit_legacy code :D I was too Dunky first time :p

Works great on 4.0.3

Thanks so much for this great mod!

It works perfectly but it affects my cms when a comment is posted in one of the articles via CMS and not the forums (SUITE Version 4.06), trying to figure out why it causes this error:

Quote:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function CarpCacheShow() in /home/buypoe/public_html/includes/class_postbit.php(284) : eval()'d code on line 2

Is it because CMS does not use postbit and its trying to find it?

Try this:

Go into Admin CP | Plugins & Products | Plugin manager
Find and edit the two p[lugins: Carp Configuration and Get Users Blog Entry
Change the hook locations for both to global_complete

Apparently, that didn't work for davaeaite.

Until recently, I wasn't using the CMS because it was too buggy. I'm just trying it out now and obviously something needs to be changed to register these variables more globally.

I'll update when/if I can figure it out. For now, it works for forum only.

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