vbSEO and 'showpost'

I am trying to integrate a sidebar into my vbSEO'd site, and am trying to only integrate on the 'showpost' bit.

I found the following code in the vbseo.php:

Code:

if (VBSEO_REWRITE_SHOWPOST && (VBSEO_BASEURL == 'showpost.' . VBSEO_VB_EXT))
{
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'showpost');
vbseo_get_options();
vbseo_prepare_seo_replace();
$r_post_id = $_GET[VBSEO_POSTID_URI];
vbseo_get_forum_info();
if (VBSEO_POSTBIT_PINGBACK == 2)
$find_prepostthread_ids = array($r_post_id);
vbseo_get_post_thread_info($r_post_id, true);
vbseo_get_thread_info($find_postthreads);
if (VBSEO_POSTBIT_PINGBACK == 2)
$vbseo_url_ = vbseo_thread_url_postid($r_post_id);
else
$vbseo_url_ = vbseo_post_url($r_post_id, $_GET['postcount']);
vbseo_safe_redirect($vbseo_url_, array(VBSEO_POSTID_URI, 'postcount'));
}

This makes me assume that the ('THIS_SCRIPT', 'showpost') is going to still be present in the re-written .html vbSEO files, however my integration with the "showpost" this_script method isn't working. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

What would be the best way to integrate a sidebar on the showpost area of my forums while using vbSEO?

Thanks for any help!

Basically, if you get it working without vBSEO, it will work with vBSEO too. In many cases you can simply modify "SHOWPOST" template in vB admincp to customize showpost pages.

Thank you for your quick and courteous response!

This is exactly what I assumed, as I know the vbSEO addon is very well done and the "This_Script" is an important part of VB. The only reason I am having a hrd time with this, is because I have two forums, one with vbSEO and one without. They are identical forums in terms of hacks and modifications, and when adding the sidebar I took the exact same steps on both sites. (And then I did these exact same steps 3 more times just to make sure I wasn't missing something).

The site without vbSEO worked great, and the site with vbSEO showed no change... Are there any settings in vbSEO that I could check for troubleshooting? Is there any reason why the "This_Script" wouldn't be associating with the "showpost" method?

Thanks again for any help. If anyone else has such a mod (sideblock on showpost), please let me know how you accomplished it. Thanks!

My apologies! On one forum I was using the entire showpost.php file, and on the other I was using the showpost "This_Script" method. I guess it was my mistake to assume they were the same thing.

For anyone who has this issue in the future, the showpost.php file, does the same functions as you would find in the showthread "This_Script" method.

You are welcome to close this thread, and thanks again!

I'm glad you got it sorted!