Comments on: Author's RSS Feed field in comments

By: Bloggie Broad

Bloggie Broad — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Breaking from the breaking news….
to announce that you can post your RSS feed in…

By: Psst!

Psst! — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.ryskamp.org/brain/psst/archives/2004_03.html#000575
Add field to MT…

By: Live in the Delirious Cool

Live in the Delirious Cool — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Commenting, it's where the fun is.
Can you believe in all this time I've never once hacked or altered my MT files? This might be worth it. Also, a nice, easy fix to the "remember me" problem seen in MT commenting.

By: Bloggie Broad

Bloggie Broad — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bloggie Scripty Reverb
I like to keep an up-to-date listing of all the…

By: Big Pink Cookie

Big Pink Cookie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I See You…
I see all these people floating through my personal blogosphere, but no one is stopping to say hi. Come on…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

(I meant .RDF or .XML feeds)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

FYI – if you'd like to display a long list of XML feeds from anyone that's ever commented on your site and filled out that field, use this code:

mysql_connect ("localhost", "DBUSERNAME", "DBPASSWORD") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("MTDATABASE");
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT comment_author_rss, comment_author FROM mt_comment
WHERE comment_author_rss <> " order by comment_author";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0; $i < $numrows; $i++) {
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
if (stristr($row['comment_author_rss'], ".rdf") || stristr($row['comment_author_rss'], ".xml")) {
echo $row['comment_author'];
echo "
";
echo "";
echo $row['comment_author_rss'];
echo "";
echo "
";
echo "
";
}
}
?>

By: JLT

JLT — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the great help as always! Keep up the great work, I really appreciate it.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes – sort of. The hack can be used to add any type of extra field – with the exception that what I add to comments.pm – is some code to check to make sure it's a valid URL. If you wanted it to add the field directly to the database…then instead of this part:

my $rssfeed = $q->param('rssfeed') || ";
if ($rssfeed) {
require MT::Util;
if (my $fixed2 = MT::Util::is_valid_url($rssfeed)) {
$rssfeed = $fixed2;
} else {
return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
"Invalid URL '[_1]'", $rssfeed));
}
}
$comment->author_rss(remove_html($rssfeed));

Just add this:

$comment->author_rss($q->param('rssfeed'));

By: Al-Muhajabah

Al-Muhajabah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jennifer, this isn't specifically about your new plugin-hack, but I want to thank you for giving such detailed instructions. I had been trying to implement a plugin-hack to create threaded comments and a new comment subject field. But for some reason, it wouldn't work!

It turns out that I had forgotten about the subscribe to comments script. Since I didn't put the new fields in the processing.tmpl page, they got lost before they were entered in the database.

After I read your instructions here (and after I stopped banging my head on my computer monitor!) I went and added the new fields to processing.tmpl. Now it works like a charm!

Comments on: Author's RSS Feed field in comments

By: Bloggie Broad

By: Psst!

By: Live in the Delirious Cool

By: Bloggie Broad

By: Big Pink Cookie

By: Jennifer

By: Jennifer

By: JLT

By: Jennifer

my $rssfeed = $q->param('rssfeed') || "; if ($rssfeed) { require MT::Util; if (my $fixed2 = MT::Util::is_valid_url($rssfeed)) { $rssfeed = $fixed2; } else { return $app->handle_error($app->translate( "Invalid URL '[_1]'", $rssfeed)); } } $comment->author_rss(remove_html($rssfeed));

$comment->author_rss($q->param('rssfeed'));

By: Al-Muhajabah

my $rssfeed = $q->param('rssfeed') || ";
if ($rssfeed) {
require MT::Util;
if (my $fixed2 = MT::Util::is_valid_url($rssfeed)) {
$rssfeed = $fixed2;
} else {
return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
"Invalid URL '[_1]'", $rssfeed));
}
}
$comment->author_rss(remove_html($rssfeed));