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ZORGLUB

2006-03-29, 16:15 #1

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Subject: Link between my blog and unb

Hi folks,

i've just installed unb on my host, and i've got an idea that could be great for me.. but i need help for that

at present, when i add a post in my blog (dotclear), i add a post too in my unb board, and i put the url of my blog's post. then, i add the url of my fboard's post in thee blog's post...
mhh am i clear??

my goal is to have a real plae to chat about the blog's post, and not only the comment part.

but don't want to forget a post and i want to simplify that process

do you think it could be possible to add a code in my dotclear interface, that adds a post in the board with a defined structure and links in both post (board and blog)

thanks for any kind of help !

Yves (Administrator) 2006-03-31, 16:08 #2

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Sure is that possible. You need to include the UNB files in the blog pages (just like in any other page) and then find the place where a new blog article is stored, to add the UNB API calls to create a new thread there, too.

Another solution would be to use UNB as your blog, if you want such a tight integration anyway. A blog isn't much different from a very simple forum. You could create/use another UNB design that looks more like a news page then.

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ZORGLUB

2006-03-31, 16:21 #3

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in fact, i need to know first if it is possible to have a php code external to unb that create a new thread, like the function add()
i thought i could add this php code in my blog's process.
but i don't have the level to code this thing, is there a way to do this? a php code that would create a thread with a predefined structure?

Yves (Administrator) 2006-03-31, 16:29 #4

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You need to code it yourself, if nobody has it ready for you. The steps are following:

Include the UNB common lib file into your blog's PHP file

Call the UNB API function to add a new thread

Call the UNB API function to add a new post to this thread

You can freely define how the posts should look like. I don't know if there are some close examples somewhere available now.

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2006-03-31, 16:34 #5

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Merci Yves,

i'll try to check that, if i get stuck , i ll come back

Pompei2 2010-03-08, 01:53 #6

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Hi,

I'm trying to achieve exactly that and I get a warning at the first point: including common.lib.php from within my blog. The unb board is located in a subdirectory called "luc/unb2". Thus in my blog's php file, I do:

define('UNB_RUNNING', 1);
$UNB = array();
$UNB['LibraryPath'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/luc/unb2/unb_lib/';
$UNB['RelativeRoot'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/luc/unb2/';
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/luc/unb2/unb_lib/common.lib.php');

I get this line in my php logfile:

PHP Warning: fopen(unb_lib/logs/ip.log): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in xxxx/luc/unb2/unb_lib/common.lib.php on line 3243

I think the reason comes from common.lib.php reading-in the conf file, then it replaces $UNB['LibraryPath'] with the value read from the conf file, that obviously doesn't fit the one I set in my blog's php file. Why does it do that?