scriptygoddess

It's my pleasure to announce that our latest addition to the scriptygoddess site is none other than Amy, from domesticat.net!

Welcome!!!!

Leaving this post here for archival purposes – but the latest version of the script is now in cgi format – find more info here

Ask, and ye shall receive. All the feedback (INCLUDING the request that this be a download!) has been incorporated!!

At this moment –
This script will work with previewing comments.
You can unsubscribe from a comment notification thread via email.
You can click on the link to the post, directly from the comment notification.
And, the code has been broken apart for easier implementation – and zipped up for your downloading pleasure.

Report any bugs to me. (I've done some local testing, but it's now 1am… we know what happens when I stay up this late coding…)

UPDATE: Once again – we've updated the script…er… actually I should say LYNDA updated the script, and an AMAZING job she did. You will not believe how SIMPLE it is to implement this puppy now. See the most recent post about this.

One of the questions I have seen frequently on the MT boards is the need to have a blog index include the last 7 days worth of posts – even if they are 20 days apart. Dori even asked me about it on Friday, but I didn't think it could be done without running scripts. With a bit of poking around, Mena has posted a way to do this in the support forums. Now you don't have to worry if you only post 1 time a week, your blog will still display 7 days of posts. (Or more if you want to!) Isn't it funny how once you see the solution you realize how easy it is?

Leaving this post here for archival purposes – but the latest version of the script is now in cgi format – find more info here

This is so easy you're going to laugh… it's very much cut and paste, very little customzing.

Please note that very soon I'll be re-doing things here so that scripts like this will be in a download section, and you'll just be able to download the whole thing with a readme of instructions… but in the meantime….

Also note – this was a team effort between myself and Lynda (who you can see from the last post did quite a job on this!)
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MT 2.11 has been released! It's a bug fix version, and a quick fix if you've already upgraded to 2.1!

Ok.. this CAN be done… I KNOW it can… I'm close… but not quite there… Here's my "plan" for the code:

Create an intermediate "processing" file that will be the "action" instead of the mt-comments.cgi. On this page I will:
1) see if a "subsribe email list" file exists.
2) if so, parse it into an array
3) iterate through the array sending emails to each person's email (that's whats in the array – it's an array of emails of people who have subscribed to the comments for that post) with just the Author and text of the comment
5) We'll load all the values of the comment form (from the previous page) into hidden form elements.
4) Then onLoad, we'll submit the form like normal – to mt-comments.cgi so that the comment is logged, and the blog author gets their comment notification, etc.

Creating a "subscribe to comments" form has still yet to be completed, but that, I would imagine would be pretty simple… on the page itself create a secondary form – creating that subscribe email list (with the post ID in the filename to seperate it from other posts).

Ok, here's where I am, and here's the problems I'm having: (Everyone and anyone is free to comment and help out with the script! This is all in the name of fun and learning, and all are welcome to participate!!!)
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Back when I put together my photolog I was looking for a popup script to pop up my images without having to specify width or height or creating a separate html document for each image.
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ieSpell – Freeware Spell Checker for Internet Explorer! "ieSpell is a freeware Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for heavy web mail and/or forum users." (Via Chris Pirillo)

Great thread in the MT support forum! It was suggested to make a Index template in MT that generates the file automatically whenever you post. Ben has posted all the code needed to put this in to place – I'll be implementing it this weekend on my blog. All credit goes to the booge.

Movable Type 2.1 is now available for download… Come an' get it!