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To install, simply add the database, activate the module and activate the block using these steps. |
To install, simply add the database, activate the module and activate the block using these steps. |
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1) The table is named "blogroll". If you use a prefix for your tables edit blogroll.mysql and change the name in the line: |
1) The table is named "blogroll". If you use a prefix for your tables edit |
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CREATE TABLE blogroll ( |
blogroll.mysql and change the name in the line: CREATE TABLE blogroll ( |
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2) From the command line, type 'mysql -u username -p drupal < blogroll.mysql' where drupal is your drupal database and username is your mysql username. |
2) From the command line, type 'mysql -u username -p drupal < blogroll.mysql' |
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where drupal is your drupal database and username is your mysql username. |
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3) Copy blogroll.module to your drupal installation's module directory |
3) Copy blogroll.module to your drupal installation's module directory |
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4) Activate the module from administer >> modules |
4) Activate the module from administer >> modules |
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5) Go to administer >> blocks and enable the block with a path of <^blog\/([0-9]*)>. For IIS you might have to remove the ^ character. This regular expression should match the URLs to your user's blogs. This is the only place a blogroll makes sense. |
5) Go to administer >> blocks and enable the block with a path of <^blog\/([0-9]*)> |
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when using Apache. For IIS you might have to remove the ^ character. This |
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regular expression should match the URLs to your user's blogs. This is the |
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only place a blogroll makes sense. |
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Using only <^blog> will allow the use of a community blogroll. This is a list of blogs that |
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users have added to their blogrolls. The list is sorted by the count of the occurance of |
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URLs and by name. |
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6) Login as a user and navigate to your own blog to get a point and click interface. |
6) Login as a user and navigate to your own blog to get a point and click interface. |
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7) Another feature is the polling of a user's blogroll from an external location. This works |
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for personal blogrolls and the community blogroll. |
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