Skins, Stubs, Templates & website integration...
By default, blogs are displayed using a skin. (More on skins in another post.)
This means, blogs are accessed through 'index.php', which loads default parameters from the database and then passes on the display job to a skin.
Alternatively, if you don't want to use the default DB parameters and want to, say, force a skin, a category or a specific linkblog, you can create a stub file like the provided 'a_stub.php' and call your blog through this stub instead of index.php .
Finally, if you need to do some very specific customizations to your blog, you may use plain templates instead of skins. In this case, call your blog through a full template, like the provided 'a_noskin.php'.
If you want to integrate a b2evolution blog into a complex website, you'll probably want to do it by copy/pasting code from a_noskin.php into a page of your website.
You will find more information in the stub/template files themselves. Open them in a text editor and read the comments in there.
Either way, make sure you go to the blogs admin and set the correct access method/URL for your blog. Otherwise, the permalinks will not function properly.
See also forum post Setting up first blog - Stub file
b2evolution Help!
News and Updates etc.: b2evolution.net/news.php
User and Admin manual - very good: manual.b2evolution.net
Support Forums - Excellent: forums.b2evolution.net
Major Players
Here is a list of some of those I've had help from.
Francois Francois Planque seems to be the main coder since 2003.
fplanque.com
EbD Tirelessly mans the forum and has produced some usefull 'plugins'. Especially the Turing Captcha Test. and MoreTags which got me started on hacking it to MyTags .
wonderwinds.com
Afwas The layout of this site is largely down to the 'simple_zen' skin Afwas made.
blog.hemminga.net
Yabba
innervisions.org.uk
Topanga
tenderfeelings.be
and some reported that I haven't 'met' yet.
dAniel
daniel.hahler.de
Danny
personman.com
This does not mean to exclude others,like:
LadyEase, Sims and . . .
