Comments on: User Editable Comments

By: leduntitled

leduntitled — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:03:47 +0000

Editable Comments
Thanks to Mark Jaquith and his script found at scriptygoddess, you will now be able to edit your comments for…

By: jason

jason — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:44:22 +0000

Very cool

By: Blinger

Blinger — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This looks really great, when I get some time I will add it on the weekend. I have one regular commenter who emails me asking to make corrections to his comments.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Fantastic! I’ve been longing to provide this facility for ages.
There’s a slight problem with the script, in that it only works if the Blog ID equals 1. You need to alter editcomments.php in order to get it working if you have multiple blogs.

Find the line that says:

$query = “SELECT comment_entry_id, comment_text FROM ” . $my_mt_prefix . “comment WHERE comment_id=’$query_comment_id’ AND comment_email=’$query_email_address’ AND comment_ip=’$query_ip_address’ AND $query_time - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(comment_created_on) - 60

and change it to:

$query = “SELECT comment_blog_id, comment_entry_id, comment_text FROM ” . $my_mt_prefix . “comment WHERE comment_id=’$query_comment_id’ AND comment_email=’$query_email_address’ AND comment_ip=’$query_ip_address’ AND $query_time - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(comment_created_on) - 60

Then find the line that says:

header (”Location: ” . $my_rebuild_cgi . “?mode=entry&blog_id=1&entry_id=” . $row2['comment_entry_id']);

and change it to:

header (”Location: ” . $my_rebuild_cgi . “?mode=entry&blog_id=” . $row2['comment_blog_id'] . “&entry_id=” . $row2['comment_entry_id']);

I think those are the only changes that need to be made.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Good catch, David, and a proper solution. I’ll put that into the next version.

Right now I’ve got another “bug” I’m working on. The cgi that rebuilds only rebuilds the files directly associated with the entry. So while the individual entry archive and monthly archive will be rebuilt, the main index template won’t… so people who have JavaScript expandable comments on their front page won’t see any edits until someone leaves a proper comment and forces a rebuild.

The solution is obviously to have the CGI rebuild the main index as well, but I have to account for different possible names for the main index template… so the best solution might be to just have it rebuild all index templates that are marked to be rebuild. That’s what happens on a normal comment submission anyway.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Noooo I wanted to implement this but it doens’t work on mine, my ip is dynamic :-@

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It should be change such that it checks maybe just the first bit of the IP rather than the whole thing because looking at my commentors on my blog a lot of people have dynamic IP or their Ip changes

By: Mark J

Mark J — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Your ISP gives you a dynamic IP? That’s nothing unusual. Very few people have static IPs.

This script isn’t intended to allow them to edit their comments for the rest of eternity. The default setting is 30 minutes.

Their IP address isn’t going to change in 30 minutes unless they force it to change.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well mine does :-S, but I was able to test out the script before that happened :S

By: Mark J

Mark J — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Updated to v0.5!

1. David’s fix was implemented, for blog_ids other than “1″.
2. All index templates set to rebuild are rebuilt, so comments displayed on those pages are updated.
3. is removed before the comment is shown to the user on subsequent edits (for those who are limited commenters to a set number of edits).

For people who were using v0.4 (should be everyone… builds before that weren’t really public), all you have to do to upgrade is drop in the new copies of editcomments.php and mt-rebuild-entry.cgi, and then reset the permissions on mt-rebuild-entry.cgi

Keep those bug reports, feature requests, and comments coming…