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Portal Page - using PHP to gather multiple blog snippits
Instructions and requirements for use:- This tutorial uses PHP to include all of its pieces of information, and so the page it is saved on should have a .php extension. SSI could be used, but the tutorial would need to be tweaked to match the SSI info.
- The codes assume usage of MT.
I created my portal to keep track of all of the bookmarks and things that I need on a daily basis. Its the homepage in my browser.
I took a copy of my info and commented it up and made up a few stylesheets. I use MT to generate all of the content, but this doesn't necessarily need to be inside of MT to work. I have it in my lovelinks blog linked to a template and set to not rebuild just so its easy to update.
The following styles will work with this, just download the one you want and change the link in the php page to reflect the name of the one you want.
blue bumble bee bright pink red light mint light blush
Feel free to modify these, but if you'd like, keep the blogstyles link on it (you can change it to "inspired by blogstyles" or something like that.)
First step would be determining which blogs you have on your system that you'd like to include on your portal page. This will determine which blogs need new Index templates created.
For each blog, create a new Index Template.
Name it Updates with an Output file of up.html.
Paste one of the following codes sections into the Template Body of the template screen, depending on what type of blog you are creating the update for:
A few extra notes of things that I use on my site...
- Weather section is from the MTWeather plugin, and then I created my own images to match the different weather options. The actual code I use is on the plugin page.
- I use PHP to check to see if my IP address matches the visitor -- since I have an IP address that doesn't change, that works well. Then I can hide links that other people don't really need to see.
<? $ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; if ($ip == "xx.xxx.xxx.xxx") { echo ?> links here <? } ?> - The most recent updates script on the sidebar is written up in a separate tutorial: MT hacks: Multiple blog Updates List
A sample of php include code follows -
<? include('/home/USERNAME/public_html/blogdirectory/up.html'); ?>
For more information, you might check out these link from the MT forums:
Topic: Recently Updated Blogs, how to show recently updated blogs
Topic: Most recent entries list, for ALL blogs
MT hacks: Multiple blog Updates List
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