vBulletin Blog - Blog Comments vBAdvanced CMPS

One of the main problems with the vB blog module is its poor integration with the main forum. This module allows you to show the last 5 blog comments in a module on your vba portal page.

Features
Comments will not display if they have not been approved.

Instructions
Click install and download the attached zip file
Edit comments.php and change the variables to allow connection to your database.
Edit cmps_comments_block.php and change the path.
Upload comments.php to your forum directory.
Upload cmps_comments_block.php to your modules directory.

From your admincp - vba cmps
Add new module
PHP file
Title - call it what you want
Active - yes
File to include - cmps_comments_block.php
Identifier - call it what you want
Link - choose either blog home or comments page as you wish
Save and add to the page of your choice, the module has been designed to be a left or right block.

[Quigg]

Strange...installed the module...

Everything looks like it should be fine...permissions are fine...

But nothing shows up on the vBadvanced front page where the module should be...

Any thoughts?

[angkor408]

Hi, I already have a blog installed and everything is working fine. Is it possible to display the avatar pix in a module block?

-Angkor

[optrex]

Originally Posted by Quigg

Strange...installed the module...

Everything looks like it should be fine...permissions are fine...

But nothing shows up on the vBadvanced front page where the module should be...

Any thoughts?

check you have it activated and that you have a clean output file. Have you installed the module onto one of your pages?

[TruthElixirX]

Originally Posted by optrex

check you have it activated and that you have a clean output file. Have you installed the module onto one of your pages?

I'm getting the same thing. I have selected clean file output and installed it to a page.

[optrex]

The only other thing I can think of is, have you uploaded the 2 files to the correct folders and made the changes required?

[Stilgar]

I'm not sure how I went wrong. I am getting this output:

Table 'DB_NAME_REMOVED.blog_text' doesn't exist

Any ideas?

[carrlos]

Didn't work for me. I kept getting a Line 2 error in cmps_comments_block.php file.

[optrex]

Originally Posted by Stilgar

I'm not sure how I went wrong. I am getting this output:



Any ideas?

check your main DB and look for the table blog_text
It thinks its missing. If you can see it then your reference to the DB is wrong

[optrex]

Originally Posted by carrlos

Didn't work for me. I kept getting a Line 2 error in cmps_comments_block.php file.

If you want help, you need to click install, but to give you a clue, your path is wrong.

[Antiblank]

I have a pathing issue using the mod myself.

My forums are installed at http://forums.mysite.com/ the vBA page resides at http://www.mysite.com/

The module shows up there but all the links use the www.mysite.com instead of forums.mysite.com. Is there a way to make this module understand vB's pathing? The rest of my vBA setups all path correctly.