call a user's blog into php block

does anyone know how I can call a user's blog to show in PHP block?  Or pull a particular category into to show in PHP block ?

thanks in advance :)

bump.

rss_factory.php?action=blogs&pid=1    might work  ?    in a rss block

 I am wondering how a page block calls the content to show when a category is picked ?

 Ummm ... OK this did in-fact work but is the rss feed don't show the blog images / thumb

.... I also wish to be able to pull videos from a category and display them in block at other pages etc ...

I'm trying to understand how content is called and displayed on pages ?

another issue doing it the way you suggest Jay is that there seems to be one feed for all blogs and not per category ?!

i don't think dolphin rss feed is up to par with images and thumbs in the feed.... 

i'll have to see if they have rss per category but i am not sure if they do...  

you might be able to do an rss feed per featured blog posts.  then just add everything you want in the featured block then call that in a feed.

I don't use blogs for anything so its hard to say.

 any idea on this jay ?: "I'm trying to understand how content is called and displayed on pages ?"

create a new php block and put this in the content.

return BxDolService::call(''blogs'', ''blogs_profile_page'', array(getLoggedId()));

by default it will pull blogs of logged id user but you can put the id of the user if you want some one specific.

I didn't tested it btw, i am in half sleep so will come back tomorrow.

he wants blog categories ....

like say with videos >> 

user clicks category >> new page loads >> the block within page shows relevant content ...

how does this work ?   I want to be able to do this with all content like blogs of particular category, or videos, etc etc and display it in php or html block on other pages

 Edit module/boonex/blogs/classes/BxBlogsModule.php and put this in the bottom just after serviceGetSpyPost() function

function serviceBlogsCategoryBlock($sCat) {
        if (!$this->isAllowedBlogsPostsBrowse()) {
            return $this->_oTemplate->displayAccessDenied();
        }
   
        require_once( $this->_oConfig->getClassPath() . 'BxBlogsSearchUnit.php');
        $oBlogSearch = new BxBlogsSearchUnit();
        $oBlogSearch->PerformObligatoryInit($this, 4);
        $oBlogSearch->aCurrent['paginate']['perPage'] = 10;
        $oBlogSearch->aCurrent['restriction']['category_uri']['value'] = $sCat;
        $sCode = $oBlogSearch->displayResultBlock();
   
        if ($oBlogSearch->aCurrent['paginate']['totalNum']) {
            return <<<EOF
<div class="bx-def-bc-padding">
    {$sCode}
</div>
EOF;
        }
    }

Now add a php block and put this in it.

return BxDolService::call('blogs', 'blogs_category_block', array('Tech News'));

Replace "Tech News" with whatever category you want.

Hope it helps, this time :)

Awesome .. I will give this a try!

would it be similar way to call videos of particular category?

Thank you for help :)

 Do I  add the code after this? :

function serviceGetSpyPost($sAction, $iObjectId = 0, $iSenderId = 0, $aExtraParams = array())
    {

 Just checking :)

ummm not sure why but I cannot get this working .... php block not displaying results

any idea about this please?

in the bottom of that file after this

    'recipient_id'     => $iRecipientId,

    'spy_type'         => 'content_activity',

        );

    }

Just before last "}";

Sorry for late reply i was busy with something.