New Blogs/Comments in Forum Search Results
 

This add-on will include recent blogs and blog comments in your forums search results - This includes "New Posts" and "Today's Posts" results...

Options
Maximum number of search results to return
Maximum age of comments/blogs to be included in search results

Limitations
There is no tracking of if a blog has been read or not - if a blog/comment fits in with the above criteria it will be displayed in the search results whether it has been read or not. This can probably be coded in by a more experienced coder than myself - any assistance appreciated. Although I like the extra exposure the blogs get from this so it is not an issue for me.

Version History
0.0.1 - Initial release - marked beta until I get some feedback.
0.0.2 - added table prefixes to query
0.0.3 - added table prefixes to query - again :erm:
0.0.4 - fixed the query causing issues on DBs with table prefixes (Confirmed working now)
0.0.5 - removed title tags from listings till I get time to fix issue with title breaking display
0.0.6 - fixed links in results to link to blogs/blogs/comments in the same way search results link to forums/threads/posts
0.0.7 - fixed broken image link, removed errant "<"
0.0.8 - Added fix where blog drafts were showing up in searches as per this post by KrisP
0.0.9 - Now only shows the latest comment from each blog
0.0.9a - Fixed but in 0.0.9
0.0.9b - Fixed date time display to be consistent with rest of forum
0.0.10 - Fixed small bug which sjhows on some systems as per this post by entertain
0.0.11 - Fixed bug where pending blogs were being displayed as per this post by jibi
Dependencies
You must have vBulletin Blogs Installed

Installation Instructions
1. Install Product File
2. Add a single line to your search_results template as below:
Edit your "search_results" template
search for:
add the following immediately below:
Other Modifications
There is another work around HERE which offers an alternative way to integrate blogs with Forum search results...

Extra Notes
To only show new blogs/comment since last visit (in much teh same way as "New Posts" works) see Post Number 41 of this thread

For a vBAdvanced module of this add-on, see Post Number 83

Great man! Will install!

This caused a database error on my board that took me an hour to get fixed.

Do you use table prefixes in your DB? After reading your post I see that I have forgotten to include that in the query. New version up shortly.

As it only does a DB read query - I can't imagine anything would have been damaged, just a db error which should have gone away with the product being uninstalled... Many apologies!

Yes, once I was finally able to get back into the adminCP i just unistaled the plug-in.

Just uploaded 0.0.2 which should resolve any issues.

Does this include blog entries in new posts?

Yep - new posts, todays posts and searches - all search screens

I bow to you oh holy Dartho! ;)

Thanx!

Thanks, but no bowing please. As with all my other addons/style - this is simply something I needed for my own site which I managed to work out, and thought I'd share here.