patch to remove the "$user's blog" link on demand

Read the patch text line by line and interpret it like this:

Lines beginning with --- and +++ show you the file to edit.

Lines beginning with @@ show you the line numbers involved.

After each @@ line is a chunk of source code. In that code, lines beginning with - should be removed, and lines beginning with + should be added. Lines beginning with a space are unchanged and are shown to help provide some context for you to make sure you're at the right place in the code.

It's common to find a - line immediately followed by a + line. This is where a line has been changed.

In a patch that has several @@ chunks for a single file, it helps to apply them in reverse order, starting with the last one. That way the line numbers won't change. If you start from the beginning, then the subsequent line numbers will be hard to follow if the number of lines changes as a result of the edit. The patch in this post has only one chunk per file so this won't be an issue.

That's really all there is to it.

Or you can get a patch utility for your personal computer and apply the patch that way. But for a patch as simple as this one it only takes a few minutes to apply it manually.

I think this works in 4.7. If not, please let me know. This is the same as florin's original patch (from basically exactly one year ago) -- the syntax just had to change a bit for the node.module file to follow 4.7 conventions. I also like to put some comments in when I deviate from the standard install. -Matt

diff -upr modules.old/blog.module modules/blog.module
--- modules.old/blog.module	2006-03-27 13:02:48.000000000 -0500
+++ modules/blog.module	2006-04-28 00:39:46.000000000 -0400
@@ -247,7 +247,10 @@ function blog_view(&$node, $teaser = FAL
 function blog_link($type, $node = 0, $main = 0) {
   $links = array();
 
-  if ($type == 'node' && $node->type == 'blog') {
+  /* The following "show_blog_author_link" line is a Drupal 4.7 patch to provide the option to show or hide the "<user>'s blog" byline on posts. */
+  /* This patch works in concert with another in the node.module file */
+  /* Based on suggestions at http://drupal.org/node/21373 */
+  if (variable_get('show_blog_author_link', 1) == 1 && $type == 'node' && $node->type == 'blog') {
     if (arg(0) != 'blog' || arg(1) != $node->uid) {
       $links[] = l(t("%username's blog", array('%username' => $node->name)), "blog/$node->uid", array('title' => t("Read %username's latest blog entries.", array('%username' => $node->name))));
     }
diff -upr modules.old/node.module modules/node.module
--- modules.old/node.module	2006-04-07 11:32:17.000000000 -0400
+++ modules/node.module	2006-04-28 00:40:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -779,6 +779,17 @@ function node_configure() {
       1600 => t('1600 characters'), 1800 => t('1800 characters'), 2000 => t('2000 characters')),
     '#description' => t("The maximum number of characters used in the trimmed version of a post.  Drupal will use this setting to determine at which offset long posts should be trimmed.  The trimmed version of a post is typically used as a teaser when displaying the post on the main page, in XML feeds, etc.  To disable teasers, set to 'Unlimited'. Note that this setting will only affect new or updated content and will not affect existing teasers.")
   );
+  
+  /* The following "show_blog_author_link" section is a Drupal 4.7 patch to provide the option to show or hide the "<user>'s blog" byline on posts. */
+  /* This patch works in concert with another in the blog.module file */
+  /* Based on suggestions at http://drupal.org/node/21373 */
+  $form['show_blog_author_link'] = array(
+    '#type' => 'checkbox',
+    '#title' => t('Display blog author link'),
+    '#return_value' => 1,
+    '#default_value' => variable_get('show_blog_author_link', 1)==1 ? TRUE : FALSE,
+    '#description' => t('If this option is enabled, a link to the author\'s blog will be displayed on each blog item')
+  );
 
   $form['node_preview'] = array(
     '#type' => 'radios', '#title' => t('Preview post'), '#default_value' => variable_get('node_preview', 0),

I installed the 4.7.3. patch in Drupal 4.7.3, but when I check the checkbox the option isn't saved... Anything I'm doing wrong?

This kind of thing shouldn't have to be done via a patch. Drupal is supposed to be flexible. Shouldn't this be an option in core that we can control?

I can't believe that there isn't something in the admin already to do this. If it has been a request for this long, why are we having to apply a patch?

Does anyone have an updated patch for 5.1 so we don't have to manually edit the files?

TIA

for those using phptemplate themes and wanting to modify blog layout read this http://drupal.org/node/44699

I think I've come up with a general solution to the problem which avoids a core hack but it requires the themesettingsapi module. As far as I can tell however, the functionality of that module is included in drupal 6 core, so having the module isn't necessary afterwards. It does almost the same thing as florin's patches.

Step 1 : Follow http://drupal.org/node/177868 to create a theme-settings.php file in the theme's directory. Here's mine :

<?php
function phptemplate_settings($saved_settings) {
    $defaults = array(
        'show_blog_author_link' => 0,
    );

    $settings = array_merge($defaults, $saved_settings);

    $form['show_blog_author_link'] = array(
        '#type' => 'checkbox',
        '#title' => t('Show blog author\'s link in posts'),
        '#default_value' => $settings['show_blog_author_link'],
    );

    return $form;
}

?>

Step 2 : Then, in node-blog.tpl.php, you can use :

<?php
$show_link = theme_get_setting('show_blog_user_link');
if ($show_link) {
    unset($node->links['blog_usernames_blog']);
}
?>

-- somewhere before you display the links.

This is my first attempt at posting a drupal hack, so don't flame me if it's been posted before ;)

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