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donncha · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Cork, Ireland

For the impatient, go to http://cork.linux.ie/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=5 to download it.

I've decided to rename my b2-smarty mod, and call it b2++ now. The Smarty modification is just one of a number of enhancements I made so I think this name fits the bill a bit better.

This release is a snapshot of what will become release 0.4 of b2++. It works, it's stable and I've fixed a number of bugs: (copied from the download page above)

New in 0.4
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1. Major modifications to the install process.
* The installer will now check for incomplete installations, it'll stop if you haven't copied the data directory in properly.
* It will check the database configuration.
* It won't reconfigure b2++ unless you delete the previous configuration files.
* I removed the b2InstallUser, this may be replaced by a hash value for security in the future.
* Database/table creation will silently fail instead of printing errors.
* A user with the same name as the weblog ID will be created.
* If you have register_globals off the installer will stop.
2. Comment posting has been fixed.
3. Problem with other users only seeing the root archives fixed.
4. Added bluedash theme.
5. Fixed some url errors in the templates.

If you can't post comments to your blog entries, and you don't want to overwrite your templates, take a look at http://blogs.linux.ie/archives/p/11/more/1/c/1 where I've described a simple fix for this.

Candle · Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Posts: 547

After install is done it sends email to admin with link and password , email has link http://root/b2login.php
Index.php gives error on line 10 .
b2login.php gives error "can't find b2functions.php " and thats as far as I can get .
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albert · Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 52

Wait, so what kind of stuff does your "b2++" have that reg b2 doesnt?
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jedi · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 3

b2++ has great features to offer

I am currently testing it out and Donncha is also assisting me for that.

some of the great features that i like is...

1. the option to install your own b2 or to offer others to signup on your b2 and they can have their own blog instantly
2. all signups will be automatically included on your main blog page directory
3. templates are already available on your admin panel and you can back up any excisting template for future use upto 5 times/template
4. Customizing template has never been easier with the use of smarty of course

check out www.blogs.linux.ie and sign up there, i have mine there also www.blogs.linux.ie/blogph

if you will install it on your server, your friends/visitors can signup to you and they can have their own blog like this www.yourdomain.com/yourfriendsblog

There are some minor bugs i've encountered so far, but donncha is very helpfull
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eadz · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:58 am Post subject:

I installed it and have a few comments..

First, the install was a bit confusing with the data directory not in the html directory, and it wasn't that clear which directory it was supposed to be in.

It seems that the directories in data are supposed to be in "html"
. If this is the case then please put them in the html folder to begin with!

Other than that the install went well.

b2-smarty seems to be a bit slower than plain b2, and I havn't had a chance to fully look through the code, but looking at post.tpl it seems that this would be displayed for every post.

so when you loop through the blog entries, you $Smarty->display("post.tpl") ?

This means that a file is included() for every entry - a lot of unneccery disk accesses.

A better approach would be to have {section name=entries loop=$i} at the top of post.tpl, and {/section} at the bottom. Then in the loop that displays post.tpl assign all the posts to an array. This way it will just loop through the entries in the template, saving x num of include()'s.

donncha · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Cork, Ireland

donncha · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Cork, Ireland

Andreas Banze discovered a major bug in b2options which I've fixed in a new snapshot. If you edit your options on that page they'll be erased and you'll have to reconstruct your users/$username/b2config.php again.
This snapshot also has 2 other minor changes.

Read about it on http://cork.linux.ie/admin/story.php?mode=edit&sid=20030425123133709

I've also started using the Smarty plugin facility on http://blogs.linux.ie/ - I added a "googleit" plugin which you can find more info on here: http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/archives/p/89490268/more/1/c/1

It also links to the actual template used on my blog showing usage, basically just add
{googleit search=$the_title}
to your template to add Google searches of your blog entries Smile