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1 | Jennifer

November 6th, 2003 at 8:18 am

Yes, it will still go into the MT database – however be aware that right now we're running into some problems with this script/hack and MT-Blacklist – and preventing comment spam.

Essentially this is what can happen: a comment spammer attempts to leave a spam-type comment – MT-Blacklist will stop it and prevent it from being posted to the site (providing it meets one of the blacklist criteria) but not before it gets sent to your subscription list. So while they don't get their spam on your site – your subscription list still gets the spam in the email.

So, if comment spam is not a problem for you – then you shouldn't need to worry. If it IS – then you might want to take that into consideration…

2 | Jianshuo Wang

November 6th, 2003 at 11:15 am

Jennifer, thanks very much for your response. I didn't expected yet and also, it is a very good demostration of the neccessarity of your wonderful code since I may miss your comment if I didn't subscribe to the notification.

I have setup the code on my site. However, it seems I met the common problem that a lot of website owner met: The SMTP authentication problem. I only have SMTP server that requires authentication. (I am using the virtual hosting and don't control the mail configuration). So the PHP script does not work on my site. It is a big headache. I was really shocked that I didn't find any useful guide after searching on the web for about two hours.

Do you happen to know if there is any way to work with the SMTP AUTH in PHP? Thanks.

Again, the scripts you created are very useful and well written. I like the design of the setup.php too – the color looks nice.

3 | Oneida

November 10th, 2003 at 8:43 pm

Wow, a highly functional MT mod that just slide in there like melted butter! You've definitely set the standard for classy mods and mod installation instructions!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Oneida

4 | Kevin

October 30th, 2003 at 7:12 pm

Any word if this works with MT-Blacklist?

5 | Jennifer

October 30th, 2003 at 9:41 pm

It SORT OF works. The comment won't be posted on the site if it's been blacklisted – but the people who have subscribed to your comments will get the notification (so they'll sort of get spammed).

6 | Jianshuo Wang

November 5th, 2003 at 11:59 pm

So I have to modify the comment page code in my MT. Will the comment still goes to the MT comment database?

7 | Jon

September 27th, 2003 at 1:38 pm

I installed this script and it seems to work fine, except in cases where preview is used. I searched through this comment thread and saw a few references, but I didn't see a resolution. Here's what I'm getting when posting after a preview:

No entry_id

Any idea for why I am getting this? The only thing I did different in my installation was to not add the form section to allow folks to subscribe without posting a comment.

8 | Gabe

September 23rd, 2003 at 1:58 pm

Problem solved – a tear down and reupload fixed it. Must've been pilot error

9 | gabe

September 18th, 2003 at 10:02 pm

Hmmm. Why is it always me? …

This looks fantastic, and I'm really excited to get it working, but when I run setup.php, I just get this error:

"Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."

Looking in the error_log, I see:

"[Thu Sep 18 18:39:19 2003] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /web/live/xxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/mt/comment_sub/setup.php failed
[Thu Sep 18 18:39:19 2003] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.129] Premature end of script headers: /web/live/xxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/mt/comment_sub/setup.php"

IPs and url removed to avoid 31ee7 h4x0r attacks against my incompetence

The files are all uploaded in ascii mode, they are all unix format, not dos. Permissions are set per the readme I created the commentsubscribe directory and chmodded 777 (I tried it in both cgi-bin and htdocs, just in case).

I downloaded version 1.2 from this site, and haven't touched the code in any way.

Any suggestions would be so appreciated that you wouldn't hardly believe it.

-Gabe

10 | Teller

July 2nd, 2003 at 11:01 am

Just one thought – it would be really nice if in the readme.txt there was also "how to uninstall". I'll probably figure it out but that would surely save some of those nerves of mine

Cheers!

11 | bhw

May 2nd, 2003 at 2:07 am

Okay, I think I have the script working properly on my site, so please ignore my last comment.

But now I have a different question. I realized that in the subject line of the messages being sent out to subscribers displays the name of my site. I'd rather it didn't do that because the word "bitch" is in it, and I don't want people who use a work e-mail address to get profanity filtered or something.

Is there a way to configure the subject line in all messages that go out so that the name of my site doesn't appear there? I'm assuming the script is taking the site name from the MT configuration file — is that correct? I want to leave it there so that the name is correct when I ping weblogs, etc.

Thanks!

12 | teller

April 13th, 2003 at 6:49 am

Hei,

After little bit of confusion, reading posts here and poking around the files I seem to have got it to work.

Thanks for the nice script ladies

13 | bhw

May 2nd, 2003 at 12:29 am

I'm attempting to install this script, and I've been able to configure the comments-config.php configuration file.

When I go to edit my comment listing template in MT, though, I don't see the exact line of code after action= that the instructions tell me to replace.

The instructions say to find this in the form tag:
action="<$MTCGIPath$>mt-comments.cgi"

But what I see is this: action="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>" name="comments_form" onsubmit="if (this.bakecookie.checked) rememberMe(this)">

So before I screw up my comment template by guessing, which is how I usually spend my late evenings, I thought I'd check with you to make sure that I should replace that entire set of stuff after the action= with what the setup file recommends, basically a pointer to emailtolist.php.

Thanks!

14 | Jennifer

March 2nd, 2003 at 10:58 pm

The only other thing I can think of is it might be a path issue… check your settings for the script…

15 | B Wooster

March 21st, 2003 at 2:27 pm

Feature request: would be great if there was a configurable way to add a fixed list of email address that will get email every time a comment is made on a MT blog.

For example, we have four authors who work on one blog, and it is very low frequency usage (so we don't want to visit the web page everyday ), and it would be great if all of us got an email everytime someone posted a comment (or a new entry for that matter, but that is not what your script does, so I'll still looking for ways to do that.)

16 | Casey

March 2nd, 2003 at 10:38 pm

No, I checked and I don't have any htaccess files in any folders. Can you think of anything else it might be?

17 | Jennifer

March 2nd, 2003 at 9:25 pm

Perhaps you have some kind of htaccess set up to redirect anyone going into either your "mt" folder or the "comments" folder (where you apparently have all the script files) to your home page?

(Please note that if you set the htaccess on that "mt" folder – it applies those rules to all SUBDIRECTORIES too)

18 | Casey

March 2nd, 2003 at 8:26 pm

I set up this script but when I hit "post" I get returned to my home page in the popup window and I'm not subscribed. Anybody know what could cause this?

The error page is: http://www.caseyscasa.com/photos then click on comments

19 | Brian McGroarty

February 14th, 2003 at 3:34 pm

Hey hey – thanks! This is exactly what I need. I'll look at it this weekend.

20 | Jake

February 15th, 2003 at 2:38 pm

Great Mod! Keep it up! Anything more coming out for greymatter ?? !!!

21 | filou

February 24th, 2003 at 7:16 pm

I've edited the html (by putting in the default as subscribe) so that whenever someone comments they are automatically subscribed to the entry

Is there any problems with this? As far as I can tell noone is getting multiple emails when commenting (and being subscribed once more) to something they have commented previously.

It seems to kinda work, but for some reason I cannot get to the webpage where the subscribe/unsubscribe can be done via the email address. However I am unsure whether this is related to the "edit" or not. When the email address is entered and the button pressed, it just reloads the page.

Another problem is emails are being sent inconsistently with some people's emails not triggering the script to send the email and as far as I can tell there is nothing extraordinary about those emails and they are receiving emails of other "commentors"

anyone else done this, or experiencing these symptoms?

22 | faiz

January 29th, 2003 at 3:37 pm

Good mooring nice site

23 | alba

December 11th, 2002 at 11:24 pm

All Fixed! Thanks!

24 | AJ

January 26th, 2003 at 4:34 pm

Hey girls!
This is a great script! I am now implementing it on my new site I am designing, but it doens't work completely:
Commenting goes pretty well, but I never receive any e-mails with posts. I have posted comments from arno@sindono.com as well as test@sindono.com (which doesn't actually exist). These are stored in a proper 1.txt file, but I don't receive any mails…

how to fix this? I don't know where to look, because I don't see any error messages.

25 | alba

December 11th, 2002 at 8:40 pm

update: the ericalba.org blog comment form only remembers the url (but not the name and email) so i'm 33.3% if the way there. still trying to work it out.

26 | alba

December 11th, 2002 at 8:38 pm

jennifer, that fixed the photolog blog, i'm still having a bit of a prob with the ericalba.org blog.

more information than i asked for is great, how else ami gonna understand this stuff.

it's a great script, btw.

27 | Jennifer

December 11th, 2002 at 4:22 pm

Make sure you leave the "." where they're supposed to be… just change the text

That was referring to the javascript code… NOT what was in the form tag… just wanted to clarify…

28 | Jennifer

December 11th, 2002 at 4:19 pm

Alba, a possible reason why your remember me doesn't work anymore is because of the way you're calling up and placing the remember info… the code you have is:

document.forms[0].email.value = getCookie("mtcmtmail");
document.forms[0].author.value = getCookie("mtcmtauth");
document.forms[0].url.value = getCookie("mtcmthome");
if (getCookie("mtcmtauth")) {
document.forms[0].bakecookie[0].checked = true;
}else {
document.forms[0].bakecookie[1].checked = true;
}

you see that "forms[0]" part? You've added another form to your page so forms[0] means it's going to look for the first form in your page (which is actually your "photo archives" select box. (So this is actually completely unrelated to the subscribe thingy)

In any case, if you explicity state which form you're referring to in that remember me code, it should work… so instead of:

document.forms[0].email…etc.

make them all say:

document.comments_form.email…etc…

or

document.comments_form.author…..

("comments_form" is what you have named your comments form… you can see it in the <form> tag itself … name="comments_form") Make sure you leave the "." where they're supposed to be… just change the text

Probably more information than you asked for, but maybe it helped explain what was going on…

(email me if you still need help)

29 | alba

December 10th, 2002 at 8:51 pm

my last post biffed, also look at http://www.ericalba.org/photo/archives/002164.php#002164
and check out the code and see if i did something wrong.

the subscribe works, the 'remember me' don't.

30 | Jennifer

November 21st, 2002 at 6:13 pm

At first glance – those kinds of errors uaully mean that either the directory doesn't exsist – or the script was supposed to be able to create it and the folder didn't have the right chmod… Can't really guess what the problem is without more info…

31 | alba

December 10th, 2002 at 8:40 pm

hi lynda,

i've just added subscribe to comments but it seems to be messing with my 'remember me' function.

could you look at http://www.ericalba.org and also and let me know how i can fix it?

32 | David

September 15th, 2002 at 11:28 am

You so rock!

Thank you so much for creating this wonderful script and making it available to the blogdom.

33 | alba

October 24th, 2002 at 3:07 am

i'm a bit of a johnny come lately to this but i just installed it on my MT blog and it works great…

except that when i tested a comment submission that was lacking required filed the script processes it and my normal error page comes up.

so whomever subscribes to this post will get a mail with the incorrectly submitted comment.

how do i fix this?

34 | Hnk

November 21st, 2002 at 6:01 pm

Warning: fopen(" /home/1512/nedr/www.nedrichards.com/public_html/hnk/scriptfiles/commentsubscribe/1282.txt", "a") – No such file or directory in /home/1512/nedr/www.nedrichards.com/public_html/hnk/scriptfiles/functions.php on line 29

Warning: Failed opening ' /home/1512/nedr/www.nedrichards.com/public_html/hnk/scriptfiles/processing.tmpl' for inclusion (include_path=") in /home/1512/nedr/www.nedrichards.com/public_html/hnk/scriptfiles/emailtolist.php on line 38

That cannot be good…. *looks worried*

35 | Shannon

August 29th, 2002 at 11:13 pm

I recently added this to a blog and everything worked fine except that the comment didn't post. The test comment didn't make it past the email that was sent out. (Which went out perfectly, I might add.)
Any ideas for this php illiterate and ignorant soul?

36 | Shannon

August 29th, 2002 at 11:39 pm

Nevermind. I figured out my problem. I had also put mt.cgi in my path to mt but I didn't catch it during the test because I subscribed without posting and then made a post.
Thanks for the script and for the chance to ask for help though.

37 | Merlot

September 11th, 2002 at 4:20 pm

To the Goddesses who have worked so hard …

It's a fantastic script. I downloaded the MT version, followed the directions and everything went as planned. It works GREAT. Many many thanks!!

I do have a script error on the page as noted by IE6, but that could be from removing the remember me cookie improperly. I will have to look around and see if any one else has this error. Thanks again!

38 | Jason

August 2nd, 2002 at 10:13 am

Awesome package! Great installation inscructions. Thanks.

39 | Donna

August 21st, 2002 at 5:21 pm

This seems to be rocking along – thanks, Jenn and Lynda! (And I agree with Promo, I'll be curious about who's subscribing to what…)

40 | Lynda

June 26th, 2002 at 11:57 am

It would be very easy to do if anyone would like to take this project over. I'm not using MT anymore which makes developing for this add-on sort of difficult..

41 | Mariann

June 24th, 2002 at 12:40 pm

Meredith, I installed the script separately for each blog (my own and Wolfrunners) and it's worked out fairly well.

42 | Promo

June 26th, 2002 at 11:53 am

I just added this, but my curiosity is getting the better of me.

Has anyone coded a page to read which comments have subscribers, and who they are?

Kinda like checking your referrers, it'd be fun to see which posts are popular.

43 | Etoile

June 24th, 2002 at 11:52 am

Hmm, the e-mail from the comment I just posted came through, but the one telling me I'd subscribed (without posting) to my own still hasn't shown up.

44 | Etoile

June 24th, 2002 at 11:51 am

Awesome, I seem to have gotten it right on the first try! (Though I don't seem to have gotten a confirmation e-mail…maybe it's still on its way.)

My only question is about using this with multiple blogs. I have two in my current installation of MT, and I'd like to use this script for both. I *think* I would need to install it separately on each, because it'll be looking at things like <$MTBlogName$> and all that…but if I can get away with not doing a second installation, that would be great. Is it possible, or should I just go ahead and do it?

(Hi, Mariann!)

45 | Mariann

June 18th, 2002 at 3:25 pm

Ah, and I did that, plus checked with Dream Host's technical support. I have to renamed the files to PHP-CGI (.pcgi) in order for them to work! Now that I know this, I can globally search/replace all the .php references to .pcgi, per Dream Host's files. Hope it's okay to modify the script. Thanks.

46 | Lynda

June 18th, 2002 at 3:13 pm

Thanks for doing that, Jenn!

Since I'm no longer using the script (I'm using pMachine now which has its own version of subscribe to comments built in) I don't think I can support it or develop it anymore, sadly.

I will help with what I can, but since I'm not using it in application, I'm probably going to forget most of it.

47 | Jennifer

June 18th, 2002 at 3:00 pm

Google is my best friend for script debugging.

I strongly recommend it as a tool for beginners and experts alike. You'll be amazed what you'll uncover!

I entered this in a search in google:
"php error open_basedir restriction in effect"

Do that and you'll find a lot of links about what may be causing the problem…

From what I read – it's likely a restriction with your host. You'll probably need to contact them. Other people reported having that type of error when their site was running php in "safe mode"…

48 | Tina

June 12th, 2002 at 4:29 am

They're in a subdirectory. I'm guessing that the problem may lie in the setup somewhere, seeing as it's an unedited line of the script that it's finding fault with. I'm going to try and set it up again later to see if that's the case.

49 | Mariann

June 18th, 2002 at 2:20 pm

Awesome script and so easy to install… the tutorial was clearly expressed and I had absolutely no difficulties setting up the script. The added benefit of learning how to password protect directories was also very nice. Bravo!

50 | Mariann

June 18th, 2002 at 2:43 pm

Ack, my turn to have issues with the script. I get this error:

Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in /home/.radar/kosub/mariann/scripty/functions.php on line 29

Warning: fopen("/home/kosub/mariann/commentsubscribe/196.txt", "a") – Operation not permitted in /home/.radar/kosub/mariann/scripty/functions.php on line 29

Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in /home/.radar/kosub/mariann/scripty/functions.php on line 35

Warning: fopen("/home/kosub/mariann/commentsubscribe/subscriptions.inc", "a") – Operation not permitted in /home/.radar/kosub/mariann/scripty/functions.php on line 35

please wait… your comment is being submitted.

I don't know where the .radar came from.

51 | kd

June 11th, 2002 at 6:56 pm

in this case, the script is trying to find files in your root (public) directory. is this where your files are? you don't have them in a subdirectory?

52 | Tina

June 11th, 2002 at 6:50 pm

At the moment, I'm getting a message of something along the following lines:

Warning: Failed opening '/home/teenster/public_html/feedback.tmpl' for inclusion (include_path=") in /home/teenster/public_html/addsubscriber.php on line 30

What's even more annoying is that I'm certain I've put in the right paths, and the line in question is a line it tells me not to touch. Any ideas?

53 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 31st, 2002 at 11:46 am

Lynda,

You're right; I was missing the title tag in the bottom form. I must have overwrote it when making other changes.

I now have titles in the subscription manager, but it's still missing in the e-mail titles.

54 | Lynda

May 31st, 2002 at 11:49 am

Title needs to be in both the comments form and the subscription box form… I only see it in your subscription box form.

55 | Lynda

May 31st, 2002 at 7:48 am

Sorry I haven't been much help. Kymberlie, when you're upgrading from the previous versions, there is not supposed to be a link to the entry for OLD subscriptions, just NEW ones. In order to do it for old ones, we would have had to create an entry list for MT and done a slew of complicated steps that would have been even more confusing.

Please make sure you've followed all the directions – it sounds like you don't have the proper hidden input TITLE tag in your form.

56 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 31st, 2002 at 3:13 am

I was able to go back and see where I had messed something up in the set-up and now the subscription manager and the e-mails generate the right links without me having to put /scriptfiles in there. I still, however, can not get a link with the post name next to the ID number in the subscription manager and the e-mails are coming as "[Neurotic Fishbowl] New Comment on ". Maybe I'll figure it out and fix it yet.

57 | kd

May 30th, 2002 at 2:02 pm

pretty sure i did that, and it didn't work — maybe i'll give it another shot.

58 | kd

May 30th, 2002 at 6:54 pm

ok, well, now it works perfectly — and i made up a different header include so i wouldn't be displaying the image or anything, just using the stylesheet, oh, it looks so cool now.

now i should put the skin thingy on the subscription manager, huh? oh man, this is fun.

59 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 30th, 2002 at 11:44 am

kd, when I added my skins I forgot to add the code:

<?php $headervar = "/home/kymfish/public_html/designs/cheader";

$extension = ".php";

include ($headervar.$skin.$extension);?>

Try seeing if you've got something like that in the two .tmpl files.

60 | kd

May 30th, 2002 at 1:38 am

i have a question: i have done the cookie part of the editing the script files, but any attempt i've made at using the cookies to change the page background has failed. in my colored background skins, i'd love to have just the colors on the 'please wait' page look like the rest — any tips on that?

61 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 29th, 2002 at 5:56 pm

Woo hoo! I fixed the problem. For whatever reason, the URLs being generated for the subscription manager and the auto unsubscribe didn't have /scriptfiles/ in the path, so they were getting 404 errors. I have noticed, however, that only a few entries in the subscription manager have the actual post title and the direct link to the post next to the entry name. Also, the subject for the e-mails are coming back "[Neurotic Fishbowl] New Comment on " but there is no post title. I'm going to mess around with it a little more, but wanted to let y'all know what I had found since I've been posting my problems here.

62 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 29th, 2002 at 1:48 am

Sigh. I just cannot get the manage subscriptions and the auto unsubscribe link to work. I also noticed that my "Click here to upgrade" gave me an error. Could it be a wrong path name some where that might be causing it?

63 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 28th, 2002 at 1:42 pm

Okay, I managed to get the skins to work (forgot a line of code. Oops!), but the un/subscribe auto link and manager are still down.

64 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 28th, 2002 at 12:29 pm

Darn! And the automatic unsubscribe link in the post isn't working right either. I must have a config file wrong or something somewhere.

65 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 28th, 2002 at 12:27 pm

I upgraded, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be picking up my skins. Also, whenever I click on the "Manage Subscriptions" link, I get a 404 error. Well, at least the e-mail subscription and posting is working!

66 | lavonne

May 20th, 2002 at 11:33 am

okay, i got the path wrong – all fixed now. [thanks, kd!]

67 | lavonne

May 20th, 2002 at 2:09 am

I got the following message when I tested it for the first time. Can you tell what I'm doing wrong? I checked the path and it looks right to me.
—-

Warning: Failed opening '/home/users/s/surreally.com-68572/public_html/bornfamous/processing.tmpl' for inclusion (include_path=") in /users2/s/surreally.com-68572/public_html/bornfamous/subscribe_to_comments/emailtolist.php on line 38

68 | Lynda

May 18th, 2002 at 9:33 pm

we'll have to look into previewing.. I think I actually know what the problem is, so I'll have to fiddle with it.

Kymberlie, download the latest script and reupload the files – directions to skin are now in there.

69 | kd

May 18th, 2002 at 9:26 pm

ok — i just now saw that last bit about the new download, so i downloaded it, and uploaded it and it didn't change the way the preview screen acts.

i've just turned off the preview button, for now, becuase it really does bad things to people's HTML, and it's the HTMLers that really like to see their previews…

thanks for trying though!

70 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 18th, 2002 at 8:53 pm

Is there a way to make the templates work with skins? I have a cookie check, but just playing around with it broke the functionality.

71 | kd

May 11th, 2002 at 1:11 pm

yeah, switching to the newer preview template fixed that problem, and it's the preview screen itself that puts in the slashes.

72 | Lynda

May 12th, 2002 at 5:53 pm

I found what i believe to be the reason behind the slashes. Something was being called out of order in the emailtolist.php for previewing.

A new download has been added to the site, so simply download it and replace the emailtolist.php with the old one and let us know if any other strange behavior crops up!!

73 | Lynda

May 11th, 2002 at 9:02 am

Kd – is it only adding the slashes when you go to preview or is it adding them when you hit post as well? If only when preview, that's *truly* odd. hehe.

74 | Lynda

May 11th, 2002 at 9:08 am

And as far as it breaking your preview template, I think older versions of MT didn't include the comment box for the preview template, which would effectively not allow this to work.

On the to-do list is to allow you to put in your own form names (if you don't have MT standard) and then generate a complete form for you to copy and paste in there so we can avoid stuff like this.

Still completely baffled on why it doesn't strip out the slashes though… Oh crap. Actually, i think something we changed when adding ease-to-skin may have caused the problem. Let me check it out.

75 | Lynda

May 11th, 2002 at 9:01 am

The thing is Pete, we DO use the stripslashes command to avoid just that, the slashes showing up in the ' characters, etc.

I'm entirely puzzled why that's happening.

76 | Pete

May 11th, 2002 at 3:59 am

kd… I had this problem as well… it's a PHP server option called "MagicQuotes" and, essentially, it puts the escape characters in all of the form submissions automatically. I'm not sure if there's a way to turn it off on a script by script basis… I had the same issue on my server with my home-brewed comments. If you're all into PHP, you'll want to look at the documentation for the stripslashes command. (http://www.php.net/stripslashes)

77 | kd

May 11th, 2002 at 3:52 am

one more thing? i notice when i use the preview screen it inserts an escape charachter before any ' — which can be edited out in the preview screen, but if it's not edited out, it shows up as \' in the final comment post.

and it doesn't seem to do this on this site. am i just weird?

78 | kd

May 11th, 2002 at 1:43 am

only one weird thing happened. it broke my preview template, and at that point i noticed it also breaks the back button.

however i solved this by doing what i'd been intending to do anyway, upgrading my preview to include the comment box for further editing. now, it works like a charm and who needs a back button at that point?

now i think i'll go customize my preview template just a bit more. ahh, nothing like friday nights coding my blog.

79 | kd

May 11th, 2002 at 1:15 am

you are indeed goddesses of the highest order. that was quite possibly the easiest really fancy thing i've ever done.

oh, this rocks. and thanks to Kymberlie for pointing me in your direction.

80 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 8th, 2002 at 4:59 pm

I just wanted to mention that Lynda was able to fix the site for me. She is too cool and definitely a Scripty Goddess. Thanks to Lynda for her help!

81 | Lynda

May 8th, 2002 at 8:24 am

Just to note – doesn't look like Kymberli's truly using popup comments. It looks like she has individual archives set with just the comment info.

Her problem was that she put into the http path to MT the FULL URL INCLUDING mt.cgi

Since the script calls up mt-comments.cgi itself, it was going to url/mt.cgi/mt-comments.cgi

Since we're including the static info in a hidden field (which I believe tells MT what page to return to) I don't see why we'd need to add anything, but perhaps we should do another test (on a FRESH copy of MT's templates so our renaming quirkiness doesn't get in the way. lol)

82 | Jennifer

May 8th, 2002 at 6:29 am

just another note – I know that it DOES work with pop up comments. I actually did test that – however – I think there was an additional template you have to paste code into – the "pop-up comments" template… and the "list comments" template.

83 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 8th, 2002 at 1:46 am

Lynda, thanks to all of your help, this is now functioning over at The Neurotic Fishbowl! I can't thank you enough for helping me out!

84 | Lynda

May 7th, 2002 at 11:58 pm

Kymberlie – in your input type="submit" field, add this:

name="post"

it should work then.

85 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 8th, 2002 at 12:05 am

I added that into both places and now when I post a comment, it takes me right into my MT config! Eeek!

86 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 8th, 2002 at 12:07 am

But I am subscribed! Just got the confirmation e-mail! LOL

87 | Lynda

May 8th, 2002 at 12:16 am

I've seen posts on the MT boards about people getting the login screen when they go to post comments, so I'm going to search for that.

A possibility – it MIGHT not work with popup comments. I don't believe we've ever tested that (although I don't see why it wouldn't)

88 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 7th, 2002 at 11:52 pm

Lynda, I went and made that change (you were right – the path was wrong), but now instead of getting a 404 error, when I submit the form the index page loads in the comment window and the comment isn't posted. Could it be the problem with my "remember info" cookie?

Btw, thanks for the help!

89 | Lynda

May 7th, 2002 at 11:42 pm

This is to note: the action path generated in the setup.php is from your config_comments.php file – if this value isn't correct, simply correcting the action path in your action line is going to generate errors in other places.

My suggestion would be to go back to the setup.php and make sure the paths are CORRECT and reflect the location you've uploaded the scripts and the location of the commentsubscribe folder.

THEN copy and paste the action line from the directions (reruning the setup.php will modify the config_comments.php so the path can be called correctly by the other portions of the script)

90 | Jennifer

May 7th, 2002 at 11:37 pm

Kymberlie – make sure the "action" path is correct… my guess is that you don't have it pointing correctly to the emailtolist.php file.

You have it as:
http://www.neuroticfishbowl.com/emailtolist.php but the file doesn't seem to exist there… did you put it in a folder somewhere?

91 | Tobias

May 7th, 2002 at 2:19 pm

2 words: kick ass!

92 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 7th, 2002 at 11:29 pm

I've got the script showing up in my comments box, but I get a 404 error when I try to subscribe/leave a comment.

93 | Jennifer

May 6th, 2002 at 11:37 pm

Let me be the first to subscribe to this post and say… YOU TOTALLY ROCK!!! THIS WAS SUPER EASY!! (can you still hear me after all that yelling!) LOL!

94 | Jennifer

May 6th, 2002 at 11:40 pm

hehehe… "super easy to IMPLEMENT" I should say! We (especially YOU) worked our butts off on this script.

95 | Lynda

May 7th, 2002 at 12:15 pm

For those playing along at home – the script is now available for Greymatter users.

96 | kristine

May 7th, 2002 at 1:18 pm

That just rocks! Did you post on the GM forums about this? I bet they will be excited to hear
You girls rock!!!!

97 | Guyman

December 9th, 2004 at 8:52 am

I must say that email addresses are to be displayed here cause i believe we are above scammers by faith we can move mountain.