vBulletin Blog - 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:

<tr>
	<td class="tfoot" colspan="$threadcolspan" align="$stylevar[right]">
		<if condition="$show['results']">
		<span class="smallfont"><phrase 1="$first" 2="$last" 3="$numitems">$vbphrase[showing_results_x_to_y_of_z]</phrase></span>
		<else />
		&nbsp;
		</if>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

add the following immediately below:

<br />$blogsinsrch

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

[dartho]

Originally Posted by JackFranklin

Hey, in this post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=41

You say to edit the plugin but I am confused as to what file exactly to edit?

Thanks.

If you're unsure how to edit a plug-in, you could edit the product file and do the same search /replace before you install it...

[bjkinzluvr]

I can't even figure out how to get the blog feature on my forum, let alone use your add-on to help integrate it. Can you help me with that? I know it's out of the scope of this, but I would apprecite it.

[dartho]

blogs isn't a 'feature' per se, its an additional product you need to purchase from www.vBulletin.com

[Hornstar]

I may give this a go shortly, just wondering has anyone used it with vb 3.8 and vblog 2 yet?

[dartho]

I've not tested that scenario - I must say I'm suprised the VB team didn't integrate blogs and searches themselves in the latest versions?

[Kalina]

Is there any way to stop the time stamp from showing in Military time and to appear in my forums time style instead... instead of 21:34:34 can it be 9:34pm... also, the time is showing as one hour earlier than the blog post/comment was made...

[dartho]

Sorry - I'm not going to be doing any updates to this one (no time / motivation).

As such I've changed it's settings to "Not Supported" and "Re-usable Code" which means I'm not necessarily going to help, however anyone else can copy/use/enhance the existing code to create a new product which will hopefully be better than this one.

[KrisP]

Seems blog drafts are showing up in search results - anybody got a fix for that?

[KrisP]

Found it:

In plugin search_start change
. " AND blog_text.state = 'visible'"
TO
. " AND blogtitle.state = 'visible'"

[Alfa1]

Thanks for the update.
Does anyone have a fix for blogs showing up multiple times, when there are multiple comments?