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How to hide blogs with skins, only to be seen for registered

1 Mar 31, 2005 17:41    

How to hide blogs with skins, only to be seen for registered users.

So many people cried for hidden blogs, so I want to show my way, I know there would be better (argghh). Even in better english. (Sorry for that)

Very dirty, very tricky, but it works.

I wanted to have a hidden blog (only for registered users) in a multiuser- Blog for chatting and talking off topic in more inside-discussing posts, we want to write another Lit-Anthologie there (you know!?).

So I have to hide Blog 1 (for there is ANYTHING posted ) and blog (9 in my case).

Let's do it!

Step 1:

edit

_main.php (in EVERY skin on your blog)

Add this directly after the <body> - Tag

(take the blog Id's from YOUR ?hidden blog?, see blogs in the backoffice)


<? //get blog-id
$this_blog=$Blog->dget( 'ID');
if ($this_blog==9 and $user_ID < 1)
{

return false;
//nothing happens when called ;-)

}
$this_blog=$Blog->dget( 'ID');
if ($this_blog==1 and $user_ID < 1)
{

return false;
//nothing happens when called ;-)
}

// add more blogs if you want
?>


search for


<?php 
	/**
	 * --------------------------- BLOG LIST INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
	 */
	require( dirname(__FILE__).'/_bloglist.php' );
	// ----------------------------- END OF BLOG LIST ---------------------------- ?>


replace it with:


<?php 
	/**
	 * --------------------------- BLOG LIST INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
	 */
	if ($user_ID > 0) //Bloglist with hidden Blogs only for registered Users
	{
	require( dirname(__FILE__).'/_bloglist.php' );
	}
	else
	{
	require( dirname(__FILE__).'/_bloglist_public.php' );

	}

	// ----------------------------- END OF BLOG LIST ---------------------------- ?>

Step 2

copy _bloglist.php (INSIDE EVERY skin-folder)
save it as _bloglist_public.php
search (in the new file _bloglist_public.php)


require get_path('skins').'/_bloglist.php';


replace it with:


require get_path('skins').'/_bloglist_public.php'


Step 3

copy _bloglist.php (in the (main) skin-folder)
save it as _bloglist_public.php
search (in the new file _bloglist_public.php)


if( !blog_list_iteminfo( 'in_bloglist', false ) )
	{ // don't show
		continue;
	}


add here: (use YOUR blog_Id's from Step 1)


if ($curr_blog_ID==9)
	{
	continue;
	}
	if ($curr_blog_ID==1)
	{
	continue;
	}
//ad more blogs if you want


thats it.

Only registered users are able to see blog1=All and your hidden blogs.

For a better overview of posts I copied my main skin to a blogall-skin

and in the _main.php
I deleted 


<?php $Item->content(); ?>

So I have only Links to Posts ;-)

If you want to see the site (without the hidden blogs of cause, haha)

http://wortsetzung.de/blog99

All the gods of php and the pure B2evo, please don't beat me ;-)......

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2 Apr 05, 2005 00:30

hey, I just wanted to thank you for posting this thread. Although I didn't get some of it to work, I was able to use what you gave as a base to help me out.

and I finally got "$user_ID" (I've been wondering for so long how to call a user's ID...).

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