$login_required is the thing you would want to search these forums for to find some ways to reach your goal. You might want to start with http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=63757#63757 and figure the file name is really conf/_basic_config.php but hey dig on http://waffleson.co.uk/2008/12/protect-your-blogs if one day you want some public content as well. Oh and if you don't use the "notes" field (which probably pretty much no one does) ;)

Thanks for your reply, EdB.

Do you know of a way to access the Blog class from 'conf/_basic_config.php'? :?: I tried a few ways and none worked. I'm trying to access the data stored in T_coll_settings without using raw SQL for this required login feature.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Regarding BOPIT you mentioned, are you saying it allows a blog to be protected yet have some posts that are public? That would be a nice feature to have. I didn't see those features on that web page. For what I did see, it seems like a nice plugin to have.

um... both are a bit off-topic for this thread eh?

1. No idea - if I want to access the db I use phpmyadmin and just poke around.

2. Did I mention BOPIT? BOPIT is cool for entirely unrelated reasons. It lets you know if any of your plugins have an update, and some plugin names you might be interested in. The "protect your blogs" link is a plugin that apparently lets you make a blog be protected without bothering with clicking 'protected' on each post.

Thanks for your reply, EdB.

I guess I should have put the stuff about _basic_config.php in the thread of the 1st link you referred which was great - that info was what I was looking for.

Regarding the 2nd link you referred, I looked at it again trying to figure out how I got to BOPIT. Here's what it said:

It's dead simple really, first go grab the plugin from BOPIT, unzip it, upload it, meander into admin and install it .... that was the hard part. For any blog that you wish to protect just put am:protected in the blog notes field and press save ...... and that's it! Instant protected blog ;)

I found the plugin located via the link on that page:

Category: Plugins & Widgets

I think I'll give that a try but I want to add a param in Blog Settings Features whether or not to protect that blog.

Thanks for both links!

EDIT: Added quotes and revised response.

Hello again.

Just a note that I updated my previous reply.

Thanks.

Hello.

To those other folks who are looking for this feature, I finally found the plugin within BOPIT. For details, visit this forum thread:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=17670