Monthly Archives: May 2003

Several updates should be mentioned:

1. When I introduce new templates (say for the blogroll, or the new archives format) I’ll make sure that template exists in the user’s template directory. If it doesn’t I copy it in from the default template
2. Redirection is now more like a normal site. Instead of redirecting to blog/index.php you can load “blog/” or if you access “blog” then it’ll redirect you to “blog/” like a normal webserver would. Try /xeer to see for yourself.
3. Mike Little has a new version of b2links coming out so I’ll try an integrate that when I can.
4. Tim and I are wracking our brains trying to come up with a new name for b2++, one that isn’t quite so awkward. He thought of “Diolog” (Dio is Greek for 2, as in b2..), I thought of “BioDio” (Biography 2..), or Biolog. Suggestions welcome please! Leave a comment here if you have any ideas!

I want to put this code on sourceforge and make the development of it more accessible. I’d like to have a new name before I put it online though.
I need help with this project, there’s plenty to do. Writing docs, designing new templates/importing existing ones, writing plugins, rewriting b2 basically. Please leave a comment if you can help..

I added some “What is b2++?” blurb to the front page. Is there anything missing? What should I change to make it better? I’m targetting users and developers here (eh? yeah, that’s hard!), but I fear I’ve probably gone and confused any potential user!

I’ve integrated part of the Nathan’s referer code into b2++. It’s in the form of a prefunction as it creates a global referers tag you can put into your site templates.
Currently it creates a different tag if you’re viewing a single post or a whole blog/category. This allows the template designer to use the postreferers tag when listing referers to a single post, or use refererlinks to list the site referers list. Add this code to your index.tpl to enable it:

{if $refererlinks != “”}
<blockquote>
Referers:
<ol>
{foreach from=$refererlinks item=link}
<li> <a href=”{$link.referingURL}”>{$link.baseDomain}</a> ({$link.visitTimes})
{/foreach}
</ol>
</blockquote>
{/if}

Flavour it to suit your own blog design. Substitute $postreferers for $refererlinks and put the same code into post.tpl to see single post refererers. The final b2++ 0.6 will have this in place, and all you’ll need to do is update your templates from the Template Chooser.

Update!
Because of the caching on this site many referers were lost, I changed the referer plugin into a Smarty insert plugin.
Insert functions are executed every time a page is loaded and because of the way they operate, I’ve had to hard-code the html it outputs for the time being.
Anyway, ignore the instructions above. If you want to record and display referers on your blog on this site, then add the following code to index.tpl (anywhere will do, but make sure there’s enough space for it!)

{insert name=”getreferer” mode=”index”}

Add the following to post.tpl if you want to show referers to individual posts too:

{insert name=”getreferer” mode=”post”}

There’s some problem with it as is though, sometimes the insert function doesn’t execute. I’ll have a look at why tomorrow.

Update 2
I still don’t know why insert functions didn’t work, that’s something I’ll have to bring up on the Smarty mailing list tomorrow. I reverted to recording every referer on each request, but the list of referers for any page is only updated when the page cache is updated.