Not Matts Script…

About a week ago, there was a guest authored post that involved using a script from Matt’s Script Archive. I’ve since been told (quite vehemently by some) that those scripts on Matt’s Script Archive are old, buggy, have major security flaws and should be avoided at all costs. (I never used them, so I didn’t know)

In any case, there ARE replacements to those scripts, and they can be found here: NMS (Which I think someone said stood for Not Matts Scripts ??).

The post that involved using them has since been taken down. (In case you’re wondering the post was about how to make “private” comments in MT - for which there’s an even simpler solution than the one in described in the post - which is to show the comments form on your page, but just don’t include the code to display the comments.)

4 Responses to “Not Matts Script…”

  1. ceejayoz Says:

    In case you’re wondering the post was about how to make “private” comments in MT - for which there’s an even simpler solution than the one in described in the post - which is to show the comments form on your page, but just don’t include the code to display the comments.

    Don’t forget to turn on e-mail notification of comments!

  2. Dennis Jackson Says:

    I’m good friends with Matt. I don’t know what he is up to with his scripts. Yes, they are extremely old. They were wonderful back in the day. I’ll have to chat with him on the subject. He is aware that the scripts are very buggy

  3. David Mintz Says:

    How old can it be if it’s intended to interact with an MT blog?

    OK, I’m just being snarky. I do not question the proposition that Matt’s scripts suck, he’s gained tremendous notoreity in the Perl community.

  4. Undercrank Says:
    Not Matt’s Script Archive
    Matt’s Script Archive used to be the one-stop-shop for your simple Perl script needs; you can now get new”better written and more secure” versions put together under the banner of “nms”.