Blog 1.2 (Now w/ Custom Pages!)

siforek · July 7, 2009

Changes from version 1.1

Added custom pages (Let's you create WHMCS custom pages just like a blog post)
Added "teasers" (Short description instead of truncated post)
Added Bookmark/ social network sharing
Added IP blocking (Let's you block IPs from making comments)
Added RSS feed for all posts & by category.
Fixed special chars in comments

$25 (includes all future upgrades and added features)

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INSTALL -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Unzip all files.

2. Upload all files to their appropriate locations:
 - "blog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/blog.php
 - "includeblog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/includeblog.php
 - "pages.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/pages.php
 - "modules/admin/blog/blog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/modules/admin/blog/blog.php
 - "templates/portal/blog.tpl" > yoursite.com/templates/yourtemplate/blog.tpl
 - "templates/portal/blog-category.tpl" > yoursite.com/templates/yourtemplate/blog-category.tpl
 - "templates/portal/blog-post.tpl" > yoursite.com/templates/yourtemplate/blog-post.tpl
 - "templates/portal/blog-page.tpl" > yoursite.com/templates/yourtemplate/blog-page.tpl

3. Add the following to your language file:

$_LANG["blogtitle"] = "Blog";
$_LANG["latestposts"] = "Latest Posts";
$_LANG["latestblogposts"] = "Latest Blog Posts";

4. Login to your WHMCs administrative area and navigate to Utilities > Addon Modules > Blog

5. Click "Install Blog"

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Sidebar -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Add the following to your footer.tpl after the last "Quick Navigation link:

     <li><a href="blog.php" title="{$LANG.blogtitle}"><img src="templates/{$template}/images/icons/blog.gif" alt="{$LANG.blogtitle}" width="16" height="16" border="0" class="absmiddle" /></a> <a href="blog.php" title="{$LANG.blogtitle}">{$LANG.blogtitle}</a>
{if $sidecategories}
       <ul style="margin-left:18px;">
{foreach from=$sidecategories item=sidecat}
         <li>- <a href="{if $seofriendly}blog/{$sidecat.id}/{$sidecat.seo}{else}blog.php?category={$sidecat.id}{/if}">{$sidecat.name}</a></li>
{/foreach}
       </ul>
{/if}
     </li>
{php}include("pages.php");{/php}
{foreach from=$allpages item=navpage}
     <li>{if $navpage.icon}<a href="{$navpage.url}" title="{$navpage.title}"><img src="{$navpage.icon}" alt="{$navpage.title}" width="16" height="16" border="0" class="absmiddle" /></a>{/if} <a href="{$navpage.url}" title="{$navpage.title}">{$navpage.title}</a></li>
{/foreach}

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Include Blog ------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Navigate to Utilities > Addon Modules > Blog > Settings

2. Select "Enable Include Blog", set "Number of posts to include" & Save.

3. Add the following to your homepage, or anywhere within WHMCS you wish:

<h2>{$LANG.latestblogposts}</h2>
{php}include("includeblog.php");{/php}
{foreach from=$posts item=post name=post}
<p><a href="{if $seofriendly}blog/{$post.id}/{$post.seourl}{else}blog.php?postid={$post.id}{/if}">{$post.title}</a> - {$post.date}<br />{$post.content|strip_tags|truncate:300:"..."}</p>
{if !$smarty.foreach.post.last}
<hr />
{/if}
{/foreach}

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SEO Friendly URLs -------------------------------------------------------------

1. Navigate to Utilities > Addon Modules > Blog > Settings

2. Select "Use SEO Friendly URLs" & Save

3. Add the following to your .htaccess (you may have to rename it from htaccess.txt)

# Blog
RewriteRule ^([^/]*).html$ ./blog.php?pagename=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ ./blog.php?postid=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ ./blog.php?category=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/page-([0-9]+)$ ./blog.php?page=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/([^/]*)/page-(.*)$ ./blog.php?category=$1&page=$3 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blog$ ./blog.php [L,NC]

** Note - You must add entries to your .htaccess for "pages" to work.

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That's it! You now have the full functionality of version 1.2
Please direct any questions, comments, suggestions or bugs to http://www.tjphippen.com

Enjoy!

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#                    WHMCS Blog v1.2      By TJ Phippen                       #
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UPGRADE -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Unzip all files.

2. Upload all files to their appropriate locations and overwrite any existing:
 - "blog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/blog.php
 - "includeblog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/includeblog.php
 - "pages.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/pages.php
 - "modules/admin/blog/blog.php" > yoursite.com/whmcs/modules/admin/blog/blog.php
 - "templates/portal/blog-page.tpl" > yoursite.com/templates/yourtemplate/blog-page.tpl

3. Add the following to the bottom of your "blog.tpl" & "blog-category.tpl":


{if $showrss}<p align="center"><img src="images/rssfeed.gif" class="absmiddle" border="0" alt="" /> <a href="blogrss.php">View RSS Feed</a></p>{/if}


4. Add the following to "blog-post.tpl" after "{$post.content}":


{if $bookmarks}
<hr />
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a51bb7478842e2e" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[url]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-bookmark-en.gif" width="83" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=xa-4a51bb7478842e2e"></script>
{/if}


5. Add the following to your .htaccess after "# Blog":


RewriteRule ^([^/]*).html$ ./blog.php?pagename=$1 [L,NC]


6. Login to your WHMCs administrative area and navigate to Utilities > Addon Modules > Blog

7. Click "Upgrade Blog"

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Sidebar -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Add the following to your footer.tpl or anywhere else on your site you'd like links to your pages to appear:


{php}include("pages.php");{/php}
{foreach from=$allpages item=navpage}
     <li>{if $navpage.icon}<a href="{$navpage.url}" title="{$navpage.title}"><img src="{$navpage.icon}" alt="{$navpage.title}" width="16" height="16" border="0" class="absmiddle" /></a>{/if} <a href="{$navpage.url}" title="{$navpage.title}">{$navpage.title}</a></li>
{/foreach}

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That's it! You now have the full functionality of version 1.2
Please direct any questions, comments, suggestions or bugs to http://www.tjphippen.com

Enjoy!

Future Planned Features

The WordPress import is on the way & will be an external script.
Comment count on post listing pages (I forgot to add it to v1.2)
& as always, keep the suggestions/feedback coming

siforek · July 7, 2009

One other thing I should mention is that currently the url of the custom pages is generated by the name. Example: "Test Page" would be "Test-Page.html".. This causes issues when you have special characters in or duplicate page names. So in the next release I'll be adding "slugs" which will allow you to manually set the url/file name for each page, category and post. This will also mean that the post # or category # will no longer need to be in the url. Example: "yoursite.com/whmcs/blog/1/uncategorized" would become "yoursite.com/whmcs/blog/uncategorized"

Tulip · July 9, 2009

neat to see you added the teaser function so fast Tho it didn't completly fit my needs. Would like it to be like an normal (tinymce) text field so it can contain whatever' (Pictures etc.)

possible its and easy fix just adding the tinymce code to that field? might me able to do that myself. anyways great stuff.

And btw migt be confusing haveing yoursite.com/whmcs/blog.php in the install instructions. as atleast I tryed putting them in that folder doh I would know better

easyer woud be: YourWhmcsinstall/blog.php and YourWhmcsinstall/templates/yourtemplate/blog.tpl etc.

hope to see the client "colab" future soon

siforek · July 9, 2009

neat to see you added the teaser function so fast Tho it didn't completly fit my needs. Would like it to be like an normal (tinymce) text field so it can contain whatever' (Pictures etc.)

possible its and easy fix just adding the tinymce code to that field? might me able to do that myself. anyways great stuff.

And btw migt be confusing haveing yoursite.com/whmcs/blog.php in the install instructions. as atleast I tryed putting them in that folder doh I would know better

easyer woud be: YourWhmcsinstall/blog.php and YourWhmcsinstall/templates/yourtemplate/blog.tpl etc.

hope to see the client "colab" future soon

Thanks for the comments. There's about 8 more features I'll be adding shortly so I'm still accepting more suggestions. I don't quite understand that what you mean by the tinymce in the teasers, as far as I know it's already there and working, so maybe you can elaborate? I'm also considering adding the ability to use teasers on some posts and not on others rather than have it as a global setting..

The next critical feature to add is "page slugs", as ATM without them there are many possible flaws.. Honestly it'll only take me about 5 minutes to add, but I want to make sure the next release has many more features so it's worth it for everyone to upgrade

Tulip · July 9, 2009

What I mean is:

siforek · July 9, 2009

What I mean is:

Right. Sorry, I actually had it like that originally but changed it to conserve space. I'll change it back on the next release

Tulip · July 9, 2009

nice thanks I'll be waiting for it

keep up the good work!

Tulip · July 11, 2009

I have yet an other future request

It's not allways I can monitor comments, so the possebility to add a report comment button would be nice. That either sends an email to admins, or show up on some important page in whmcs. would show in comments, something like this -->

Tulip · July 11, 2009

Cant edit after 15 mins for some weird reason so here comes dobbel/trippelpost:

ahhh and btw: The includeblog.php don't get the teaser function, so if you are to include it on some page and do like me have pic's on there I currently just removed the "strip_tags" but the picture was too big so it reformated the layer. My site is not lunched yet but its getting close now my last resort is quite easy doh' just get what I want from the database with php echo function. But anyways now you know the teaser don't get to the includeblog .php or code'

siforek · July 11, 2009

Cant edit after 15 mins for some weird reason so here comes dobbel/trippelpost:

ahhh and btw: The includeblog.php don't get the teaser function, so if you are to include it on some page and do like me have pic's on there I currently just removed the "strip_tags" but the picture was too big so it reformated the layer. My site is not lunched yet but its getting close now my last resort is quite easy doh' just get what I want from the database with php echo function. But anyways now you know the teaser don't get to the includeblog .php or code'

Thanks, I'm working on this now and will see if I can get the next release out at least by Monday, but if all goes well mite get it out today

Tulip · July 11, 2009

awsome!

BubbleRack · July 13, 2009

Looks Good, just ordered.

siforek · July 13, 2009

It's been Monday for almost an hour now and I'm not yet ready to release 1.3. The good news is here's a chance to get a couple feature requests in for this next release This is my top priority tomorrow.

annomander · July 13, 2009

Hi Sirok, whens 1.3 coming out? I'm thinking of purchasing but if 1.3 is out soon, might be better off waiting.

Just looked at the demo, and the different category section looks perfect for what I was looking for my scripts section that I mentioned in another post.

siforek · July 13, 2009

Hi Sirok, whens 1.3 coming out? I'm thinking of purchasing but if 1.3 is out soon, might be better off waiting.

Just looked at the demo, and the different category section looks perfect for what I was looking for my scripts section that I mentioned in another post.

I'm working on v1.3 right now From v1.2 on every version has a built in upgrade script so no matter what version you initially install you can always upgrade to the new version.

But to be realistic, v1.3 it so close to being released(a few hours) that you may not want to waist your time re-uploading the new files.

annomander · July 13, 2009

Cheers, I'm sure you'll post on here when its ready

I'll keep poping back

siforek · July 13, 2009

Version 1.3 is now available. I added comment count, permalinks, teaser textarea, and added teaser to includeblog.php.

Tulip · July 13, 2009

nice thanks.

Keep em comming

Tulip · July 13, 2009

To those who wonder for {$LANG.comments} to work you must add this to your whmcs lang file: $_LANG["comments"] = "Comments";

siforek · July 13, 2009

To those who wonder for {$LANG.comments} to work you must add this to your whmcs lang file: $_LANG["comments"] = "Comments";

Whoops, looks like I forgot to add that to the upgrade instructions, though it is in the readme Thanks Tulip

One other thing I forgot to add was comment count on custom pages, so this will be first thing in v1.4 next week

Tulip · August 13, 2009

is this still going TJ? have some more futures to request

siforek · August 13, 2009

is this still going TJ? have some more futures to request

Due to the amount of projects I'm currently working on I haven't worked on this much, but am taking more feature requests for the next release.

Tulip · August 13, 2009

ye. nice. There are those who I allready have requested and a few more easy once:

- Possebility to edit who posted. When making a new post have it autofill the creator but if he wants he can edit the creator in a easy textbox. (much like the date field)

-

Tulip · August 18, 2009

- The is no way to preview an item, this becomes a real problem when changeing a post to hidden and want to get the link to share to a selected group of people. Making the post name klicky' (link to the newspost) on the first admin page would be nice. or have it show the link on the top or bottom of the edit post page.

siforek · August 18, 2009

Great suggestions, I'll add the following in the next release:

Add ability to edit/change post author
Add ability to preview hidden/draft items & direct link to post/pages in admin area.
Add ability to view all hidden/draft posts/pages.
Add password protected posts. pages, and categories.
Add category slugs.
Add meta(description/keywords) tags.
Add links(like wordpress' blogroll)
Add most popular
Add archives
Add multi language support

Anything else you have in mind please let me know.

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