Conditional to check whether we're inside a blog

**Slacker** · Mon 3 Sep '07, 11:18am

I came here to ask this same question. On my install, I'm using the blog system for my new main blog for the site, redirecting the main url to it:

http://www.slackercentral.com redirects to:

http://boards.slackercentral.com/blog.php?u=3968

To customize the look of the main blog I went through and tacked in a bunch of conditionals checking the userid number like so:

<if condition="$userinfo[userid]==3968">(content for the main blog)<else />(default layout for any other blog)</if>

As you can see by clicking the link above, this works fine for the main page. I removed the default header and navbar, and added a few blocks in the sidebar specific to the front page of the site (what is this, the messageboard, slackercentral.com). However, if you click on a particular blog entry, it gets weird:

http://boards.slackercentral.com/blog.php?b=10

For some reason, the conditional that changes the header and kills the navbar on the main page isn't working here. However, the blocks I added in the sidebar using the same conditional are still working fine. EDIT: I fixed this one - see below.

I double-checked to ensure that the page was getting the $header and $navbar from the "BLOG" template by commenting them out, and indeed they are.

Really long question short - is there a conditional that works on every page to check if you're looking at a particular blog?

**Slacker** · Mon 3 Sep '07, 11:28am

I just found at least part of the answer, it looks like there are different variables that work in each template:

Main blog page (?u=XXXX): $userinfo[userid]
Individual entry page (?b=XX): $blog[userid]
Comment editing page (?do=comment&b=XX): I can't find this one yet.

Both of the above return my userid (3968). I was able to fix what I was talking about above by making the conditional that replaces the navbar and header an OR with the first two conditionals.

<body $onload>

<if condition="$userinfo[userid]==3968 OR $blog[userid]==3968">
<div style="width:100%" align="center">
<div style="width:900px" align="left">
<a href="http://boards.slackercentral.com/blog.php?u=3968"><img border="0" src="images/temptitle.jpg" style="margin-bottom:5px"></a>
<else />
$header
$navbar
</if>

I think the only thing left that needs correcting is the comment page.

**Michelle** · Mon 3 Sep '07, 12:53pm

Its $bloginfo[userid]

**Slacker** · Mon 3 Sep '07, 1:18pm

Originally posted by Loukrhtia

Its $bloginfo[userid]

Nice work! Yep that's it, but that one doesn't work on the main blog page, just on the entry page and the comment editing page. That helps me out though, now I can just do an OR conditional with $userinfo[userid] and $bloginfo[userid]. Thanks!

**Slacker** · Mon 3 Sep '07, 1:53pm

FYI for anyone else doing what I'm doing, I also had to set up a conditional to check for the random featured blog entry thing, otherwise it changed the header to my custom version on the normal blog.php page whenever one of the posts from the main blog popped up. Here's what it looks like now:

<body $onload>

<if condition="$show['randomfeatured']">
$header
$navbar
<else />
<if condition="$userinfo[userid]==3968 OR $bloginfo[userid]==3968">
<div style="width:100%" align="center">
<div style="width:900px" align="left">
<a href="http://boards.slackercentral.com/blog.php?u=3968"><img border="0" src="images/temptitle.jpg" style="margin-bottom:5px"></a>
<else />
$header
$navbar
</if>
</if>

I'm sure there's a way to add that $show['randomfeatured'] conditional to the one where it checks for the userinfo, but I'm too tired to figure it out at the moment.

**Michelle** · Tue 4 Sep '07, 1:07am

Sorry, I didn't have much time before.
The conditional I used (and seems to work fine) was:

HTML Code:

<if condition="($_REQUEST['do'] == 'blog' OR $userinfo['userid'] OR THIS_SCRIPT=='blog_post')">

$bloginfo[userid] is not of much help, as its set in the homepage as well...

However if you want to check whether you are inside a specific blog, you would have to check $userinfo[userid] and $bloginfo[userid], inside the above conditional, as in some pages its the $userinfo one and in some others the $bloginfo one.

Btw, if you also remove the footer from the blogs (as I did) you will have to copy some <script> tags from the footer template and paste them in the BLOG template, otherwise the ajax and js functions such as "rate this entry" wont work (this one had me stumbled for a while).

Hope this helps

**Freddie Bingham** · Tue 4 Sep '07, 4:19pm

You can use if (defined('BLOG_SCRIPT')) to tell if you are on a blog page. For specific pages then you have to use THIS_SCRIPT. $userinfo is defined for any page within a user's blog. $bloginfo is defined if you are inside an entry. You should check BLOG_SCRIPT as well since you can have $userinfo defined in other places in vBulletin.

**Shon** · Thu 6 Sep '07, 5:26pm

(defined('BLOG_SCRIPT'))

What would be the template conditional for if (defined('BLOG_SCRIPT')) to use in the header template?

I've tried both:

Code:

<if condition="defined('BLOG_SCRIPT')">

and

Code:

<if condition="(defined('BLOG_SCRIPT'))">

But neither seem to work.

I'm currently using this:

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == "blog" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_attachment" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_callback" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_newattachment" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_post" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_report" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_search" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_subscription" OR THIS_SCRIPT == "blog_usercp"">

I would rather use something... well shorter, if I can.

Thanks

**Freddie Bingham** · Fri 7 Sep '07, 8:06am

<if condition="BLOG_SCRIPT == true">

that should work

**Shon** · Fri 7 Sep '07, 2:39pm

That works, but it's also set to true on the forums...

I have a conditional setup for each part of the site and for the forums, they're listed at the end of the last <else />. When I was viewing the forums page, it showed what I had showing for the blogs too.

Is that supposed to only be true when you're viewing one of the blog pages?

Edit: Something like this

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == "adv_index"">
    This is a CMPS page
<else />
    <if condition="PP_SCRIPT == "vBGallery"">
        This is a vBGallery page
    <else />
        <if condition="BLOG_SCRIPT == true">
            This is a Blog page
        <else />
            This is another page, part of the forum
        </if>
    </if>
</if>

If I was using that code in the header template, while viewing something other than all of those (This is another page, part of the forum) it would still display This is a Blog page.

**Shon** · Thu 13 Sep '07, 12:46am

I'm in no hurry or anything because what I'm currently using works. But I'm still wondering if I can use something shorter for the same result. I don't like so many ORs!

**smnet** · Tue 18 Sep '07, 8:21am

This is a pain isnt it..... grrrr

**Wayne Luke** · Tue 18 Sep '07, 9:32am

<if condition="VBBLOG_SCRIPT == true">

That should work. It is not active in the header or navbar templates according to the code though. It should also not be active on regular forum pages since it is only defined in blog_init.php.

**Michelle** · Fri 21 Sep '07, 5:39am

Has anything changed in v1.0.1 that makes this easier?

@Wayne: I think most members (and I) are more interested in a condition that checks whether we're inside a user's blog, not the blog system in general...

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