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Both staff and students at the University of Bergen have access to this BLOG.
Students should use their computer account on "rasmus", the accounts for employed
is connected to "alf". These are the same accounts and passwords that gives access
to ie webmail.uib.no. If you dont already have an account, please request one at
SEBRA.
At the login screen, simply type enter your username and password and your blog will be created for you. Normally each users will only get one blog.
After logging in, you'll come to the main entry screen. On the left, you'll have a menu and a form for creating/editing entries. On the right, you'll have a list of all blogs that you have editing rights and a list of the 5 most recent entries you have made to the currently selected blog.
Use the form to enter a title for your entry and the text of your entry. HTML is allowed in all posts. If you wish to preserve the format of your entry without using HTML, please make sure the 'Preserve formatting' checkbox is checked. You can also have MPB translate text links and email address into web links for you simply by checking the 'Translate links' checkbox. If the blog super user has enabled it, you can check the 'send update notice to weblogs.com' checkbox and have a notification sent to the weblogs.com website(this may cause long load times upon saving). When finished, you can preview your entry with the 'Preview' button. To save your entry, click the 'Save' button. If editing, click the 'Update' button to save your changes and the 'Cancel' button to cancel your changes.
Enter the prefered title of your blog and click Save. The title will default to your username and it can maximum contain 32 characters.
By default (type Standard) only you will be able to edit your blog, everybody will be able to read it, give comments and score the karma per entry. The other available types are:
To change the current blog, pick a different blog from the blog list in the upper right hand corner and click 'Change'
Along the right hand side of the page is a list of your most current entries. Each one show the title and time of the entry, the text of the entry, hoe many comments have been made for that entry(and a link to delete them if there are some), and buttons for editing and deleting each entry. If you have more than the specified limit of entries to show, arrows will appear to take you to the next page of entries.
The MPB Super User can give blog level administration rights to individuals. As of this release, the only privelege a blog level administrator can have is the ability to change the template for the blog they have admin rights to.
To change the template. simply select a template from the dropdown above the entry form and click 'Change'
To modify your personal information, click the 'User' link in the blog menu. You will be able to change your name, email address and URL from this form. Make any changes you wish and click the 'Edit Info' button for personal information and the 'Change' button for changing your password. You will have to log into SEBRA to change your password.
MPB was designed to only display your blog entries, leaving the layout and look of the actual blog page to the end user. Your blog entries should be displayed via an 'included' file. This means you should use a Server-Side Include(in the case of HTML files) or PHP's include() function.
Your blog is given an uniq ID, by clicking on "View blog" you will find your blog ID as the digits following the equal sign (=) of the display URL. You can also use your username as your blog ID (BLOGID). All you need to do is reference the blog.php and set the blogid (the id number of your blog, the number next to your blog's name in the blog list on the entry screen).
An easy non-fancy way to display your blog is to click on "View Blog" or use this URL
As a student enter this into your "blog.shtml":
You and visitors to your site can now search your blog entries via the archive. The search box is underneath the calendar on the right-hand side of the page. This search currently only searches the entry titles and bodies.
Q: I can't log in!
A: Please make sure that cookies are enabled in your browser and make aure that you are typing you password correctly. Password ARE case sensitive.
Q:I point my browser at 'http://mydomain/myphpblog' but I don't get the login screen, I get a directory listing?
A: Quick fix: point at 'http://mydomain/myphpblog/login.php
Proper fix: Your webserver is not set up to show index.php as a
default page. Apache deals with this with the 'DirectoryIndex'
directive in httpd.conf
Q: I'm using the PHP include function to include my blog from a remote machine, but get the error message "Warning: Failed opening 'http://mydomain.com/myphpblog/blog.php?blogid=1' for inclusion....."
A: First, make sure that you can view 'http://mydomain.com/myphpblog/blog.php?blogid=1' in your browser. If so, then it is likely that your PHP configuration is set to not allow the include() function to include URLs. If you can edit the php.ini file on your sever, set the allow_url_fopen parameter to 'On'. If not, you can try using the virtual() function, but that may not work either(and isn't recommended in the PHP Manual). If all else fails, try to run your blog locally.