"Blog-it" button on all posts

Posted by rentex on February 9, 2006 at 1:11pm

Hello

I was wondering if anyone has a customized the xxxx module (?) to achieve the following:

1. "Blog it"-button/link, appearing below all nodes (like "add comment") not only in the aggregator-block. It should copy the text into a new post just like the Blog-it button does from the block. If "perfect" it should ask which node type to "blog it as": Blog, Forum post, Book page, etc, but that can be a later variant, most important is to be able to blog any posts easily at all.

2. Blog-it button beside each item in the news aggregator listing where the teasers are shown.

Not being a PHP programmer myself, I'm looking for a bit of advice on how to customize to have this functionality.

Any help/advice is highly appreciated.

Comments

Modified this piece of code, is it correct?

Posted by fletcherson on February 28, 2006 at 12:56pm

I've been trying to achieve something similar.

So far I've done the some changes to the piece of code that appears in the aggregator.module-file, but I still didnt manage to see "Blog it"-button anywhere.

Could someone please review what I've done, and help me out?

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/**
 * Format an individual feed item for display on the aggregator page.
 *
 * @ingroup themeable
 */
function theme_aggregator_page_item($item) {
  static $last;

  $date = format_date($item->timestamp, 'custom', 'Ymd');
  if ($date != $last) {
    $last = $date;
    $output .= '<h3>'. format_date($item->timestamp, 'custom', 'F j, Y') ."</h3>\n";
  }

  $output .= "<div class=\"news-item\">\n";
  $output .= ' <div class="date">'. format_date($item->timestamp, 'custom', 'H:i') ."</div>\n";
  $output .= " <div class=\"body\">\n";
  $output .= '  <div class="title"><a href="/'. check_url($item->link) .'">'. check_plain($item->title) ."</a></div>\n";
  if ($item->description) {
    $output .= '  <div class="description">'. $item->description ."</div>\n";
  }

/**
 * I customized from here
 *
 * 
 */
  if ($user->uid && module_exist('blog') && user_access('edit own blog')) {
    if ($image = theme('image', 'misc/blog.png', t('blog it'), t('blog it'))) {
      $output .= '<div class="icon">'. l($image, 'node/add/blog', array('title' => t('Comment on this news item in your personal blog.'), 'class' => 'blog-it'), "iid=$item->iid", NULL, FALSE, TRUE) .'</div>';
    }
  }
    if ($item->ftitle && $item->fid) 

/**
 * I customized to here
 *
 * 
 */
{
    $output .= '  <div class="source">'. t('Source') .': '. l($item->ftitle, "aggregator/sources/$item->fid") ."</div>\n";
  }

  $result = db_query('SELECT c.title, c.cid FROM {aggregator_category_item} ci LEFT JOIN {aggregator_category} c ON ci.cid = c.cid WHERE ci.iid = %d ORDER BY c.title', $item->iid);
  $categories = array();
  while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $categories[] = l($category->title, 'aggregator/categories/'. $category->cid);
  }
  if ($categories) {
    $output .= '  <div class="categories">'. t('Categories') .': '. implode(', ', $categories) ."</div>\n";
  }

  $output .= " </div>\n";
  $output .= "</div>\n";

  return $output;
}

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This Solution Worked For Me

Posted by Mike Sances on August 9, 2007 at 2:11pm

I just copied and pasted the "blog it" lines from the block section of the module to the page_item section. I think you did the same, the difference for me is where I pasted. See below.

I tried this out in Drupal 5 first; what's pasted below is what I ended up with in 4.7. The difference between 5 and 4.7? 5 used a function called module_exists(), while 4.7 used module_exist().

Hope this helps :-)

/**
 * Format an individual feed item for display on the aggregator page.
 *
 * @ingroup themeable
 */
function theme_aggregator_page_item($item) {

  $source = '';
  if ($item->ftitle && $item->fid) {
    $source = l($item->ftitle, "aggregator/sources/$item->fid", array('class' => 'feed-item-source')) . ' -';
  }

  if (date('Ymd', $item->timestamp) == date('Ymd')) {
    $source_date = t('%ago ago', array('%ago' => format_interval(time() - $item->timestamp)));
  }
  else {
    $source_date = format_date($item->timestamp, 'custom', variable_get('date_format_medium', 'D, Y-m-d H:i'));
  }

  $output .= "<div class=\"feed-item\">\n";
  $output .= '<h3 class="feed-item-title"><a href="'. check_url($item->link) .'">'. check_plain($item->title) ."</a></h3>\n";
  $output .= "<div class=\"feed-item-meta\">$source <span class=\"feed-item-date\">$source_date</span></div>\n";

  if ($item->description) {
    $output .= '<div class="feed-item-body">'. aggregator_filter_xss($item->description) ."</div>\n";
  }

  $result = db_query('SELECT c.title, c.cid FROM {aggregator_category_item} ci LEFT JOIN {aggregator_category} c ON ci.cid = c.cid WHERE ci.iid = %d ORDER BY c.title', $item->iid);
  $categories = array();
  while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $categories[] = l($category->title, 'aggregator/categories/'. $category->cid);
  }
  if ($categories) {
    $output .= '<div class="feed-item-categories">'. t('Categories') .': '. implode(', ', $categories) ."</div>\n";
  }
  
 # add the "blog it" button to the feed page, not just blocks!
  
  global $user;

  if ($user->uid && module_exist('blog') && user_access('edit own blog')) {
    if ($image = theme('image', 'misc/blog.png', t('blog it'), t('blog it'))) {
      $output .= '<div class="links">'. l('Blog This', 'node/add/blog', array('title' => t('Comment on this news item in your personal blog.'), 'class' => 'blog-it'), "iid=$item->iid", NULL, FALSE, TRUE) .'</div>';
    }
  }
  $output .= "</div>\n";

  return $output;
}

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Adding "Blog It" to the Aggregator page itself

Posted by illepic on June 18, 2010 at 6:15pm

I needed the "Blog It" link/button to show up on each item on the actual aggregator PAGE not just the block. This is how I accomplished this:

First copy the file aggregator-item.tpl.php from /modules/aggregator/aggregator-item.tpl.php to /sites/all/themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/aggregator-item.tpl.php
Then, edit the template.php of your theme (/sites/all/themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/template.php)
Paste the following into your template.php file (changing YOUR_THEME_NAME to the actual name of your theme):
function YOUR_THEME_NAME_preprocess_aggregator_item(&$variables){ $item = $variables['item']; global $user; $output = ''; if ($user->uid && module_exists('blog') && user_access('create blog entries')) { if ($image = theme('image', 'misc/blog.png', t('blog it'), t('blog it'))) { $output .= '<div class="icon">'. l($image, 'node/add/blog', array('attributes' => array('title' => t('Comment on this news item in your personal blog.'), 'class' => 'blog-it'), 'query' => "iid=$item->iid", 'html' => TRUE)) .'</div>'; } } $variables['blog_button'] = $output; }
Now, let's edit the aggregator-item.tpl.php file we copied earlier. (It should now reside at /sites/all/themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/aggregator-item.tpl.php). I wanted the "Blog It" button to appear right below the title of each aggregator item, so I changed the following from:
<h3 class="feed-item-title"> <a href="<?php print $feed_url; ?>"><?php print $feed_title; ?></a> </h3>

to:
<h3 class="feed-item-title"> <a href="<?php print $feed_url; ?>"><?php print $feed_title; ?></a> </h3> <?php print $blog_button; ?>

That's it! Hope this helps :)