Customizing SMF > Modifications and Packages

SMFBlog now for SMF 2.0 RC3!

(1/95) > >>

SMFHacks.com Team:
Link to Mod

SMFBlog: A (very) simple SMF blogging system
Introduction
It has been requested heaps, and now is finally available! SMFBlog is an extremely simple blogging system for SMF. Certain boards can be marked as "blog boards", and these boards will all be listed on the main blog page. Blog posts are topics in these boards, and comments are replies to these posts.

For SMF 1.1.x In order to use this mod, you must first install the SSI Topic and Replies mod, otherwise it won't work properly.

Warning!
This mod is still beta. In short, this means that it may still have bugs in it. Please report any bugs you find, no matter how trivial (I even consider things like incorrect grammar in code comments as a bug :P).

Installation
Simply install the SMFBlog package :D
In order to use the pretty URLs, you'll need to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess (yes, that's a dot as the first character). If you already have a .htaccess file, copy the entire contents of the htaccess.txt file to the end of it.

How do I use this mod?
Using this mod is extremely simple!
Firstly, specify one (or more) boards to be blog boards. This is done by editing the board, and ticking the "Use this board as a blog?" option. You may add some new boards for this purpose :)


Once this is done, start posting new topics in that board!


Any topics in this board will appear in the blog


Customisation
Most of the CSS styles used by this mod are in the Themes/default/blog.css file. To change how stuff in your blog is displayed, edit the styles in this file. Additionally, if you'd like to customise more, this blog uses the Themes/default/Blog.template.php template.


Before you request a crazy feature addition...
... please remember that this is a simple blog. I will not be adding any complex features to it, instead opting to keep it as simple as possible :).
Changelog

0.1 Beta
--------
Initial public release (beta!).

spottedhog:
Nice!

I found one possible mistake for installation.....  Unless my eyes deceive me,  in the ManageBoards.php file, the install.xml is putting "'is_blog' => 0," in twice.  (I can only find one instance of "'permission_mode' => 'normal',")

...just an observation..

christicehurst:
Some errors below. I do have alot of mods installed too which could be a issue.


1. Extract File ./Sources/Blog.php 
2. Extract File ./Themes/default/Blog.template.php 
3. Extract File ./Themes/default/blog.css 
4. Execute Modification ./index.php Test successful
5. Execute Modification ./Sources/ManageBoards.php Test failed
6. Execute Modification ./Sources/ModSettings.php Test successful
7. Execute Modification ./Sources/Post.php Test successful
8. Execute Modification ./Sources/QueryString.php Test successful
9. Execute Modification ./Sources/Subs-Boards.php Test failed
10. Execute Modification ./Sources/Subs.php Test successful
11. Execute Modification ./Themes/default/index.template.php Test failed
12. Execute Modification ./Themes/default/ManageBoards.template.php Test successful
13. Execute Modification ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php Test successful
14. Execute Code installScript.php

Daniel15:
spottedhog, thanks for reporting that, I just noticed that as well :P. It was just an error due to me copying that bit of ManageBoards.php into the install.xml file twice. I'll fix it as soon as possible.


hristicehurst, which mods do you have installed at the moment?
Could you please send me your Sources/ManageBoards.php, Sources/Subs-Boards.php and Themes/default/index.template.php files?

Exochat:
is it TOPIC RATING mod?? it is just that i found that causes a Manage Boards and Sub Boards failure when trying to install the Shop MOD as well.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page