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

[carrlos]

Can you make the links in the seach page go to the page of the blog comment? Each link goes to the first page of the blog. Thanks in advance! Great product!

[dartho]

Just added this in 0.0.6 with minimal testing...

[carrlos]

Thanks dartho! I'm hoping the link feature is working as you say! Thanks!

[carrlos]

Here is an example of what is happening to me with 0.0.6.



I am running 3.7.3.

Edit: It appears that instead of forum/images/buttons/lastpost.gif, the link for the last post button is coming out forum/images/wf/buttons/lastpost.gif!!!

BTW, why didn't you integrate the modification that you wrote in post #41? It works really good!

[carrlos]

Ok, I opened the product in Dreamweaver and removed the "wf" directory and added your mod from post #41. Everything is fine on that end but I don't know how to get rid of the "<" that appear!

[dartho]

Oops... - Just fixed up the image path and errant "<" download latest 0.0.7 version

I didn't integrate the stuff in post #41 as I don't want it set up like that on my site and that's what I wrote this mod for

[carrlos]

Downloading and installing!!

[carrlos]

Perfect! The only other change that would be nice is for the "bold" to go away once the link has been accessed like the other search results!

[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.

[furst]

thanks for this mod