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January 13, 2003
ComeBack is here!
Okay, here is the packaged up version of ComeBack for Movable Type.
- Download cb-mt.tar.gz or cb-mt.zip
- Unpack the archive and place:
- ComeBack.pm in your lib/MT/App/ directory
- ConfigMgr.pm in your lib/MT/ directory
- cb_url.pl in your plugins/ directory
- mt-cb.cgi in your base MT directory
- Add the following line to your mt.cfg file if you have to rename mt-cb.cgi to something else (e.g mt-cb.pl):
ComeBackScript mt-cb.pl
The plugin part adds the following tags to MT: MTComeBackScript and MTEntryComeBackLink. You can use them just like their Trackback cousins.
I also implemented an example ComeBack pinging script. You can download send-cb.tar.gz or send-cb.zip. In there are two files, send-cb.pl and XML/ComeBack.pm (which is basically a hacked-up version of Tim's XML::TrackBack perl module.
Play around with them and see what happens.
Update: Fixed a couple bugs. Download the new archive.
Posted by rayners at January 13, 2003 07:27 PM
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Comments
D'oh! My apologies. I put that up last night, and I had to get to bed pretty early, so I hadn't fully tested it yet. Just grab the latest archive, which contains a patched version of ConfigMgr.pm for MT. That should work fine.
Posted Via: send-cb.pl (Version 0.1)
Posted by: David Raynes at January 14, 2003 10:35 AM
Okay, I'm still pretty fuzzy about how ComeBack works. Do both parties have to have ComeBack installed? If I was to enable it on the plugin directory, and you were to ping the directory when you added a plugin, then people could leave a comment for YOU over there and it would show up both on the plugin comments page AND in your thread that you pinged from? Hmmm.....
Posted by: kristine at January 14, 2003 05:11 PM
i'm testing it on my blog, the comments are sent, and i receive notification but the script returns a 500 error when i use the version i downloaded.
i figured i needed to send a content header so i tried this:
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
and text/xml ... when i try that, i dont get a 500 server error but i do get an xml error in the top of the page, when i veiw the source i get this:
Received: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <response> <error>0</error> </response>
and in the page it get this: Received: 0 Woo hoo! Ping to http://www.dotfaf.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cb.cgi/754 sent successfully
++++
Any thoughts? Or is that how it's supposed to work? i'd rather not get a 500 server error or an xml error.
Posted by: Faf at January 19, 2003 05:50 AM
the page ate my xml error. anyway.. one last question then i'll go sleep... can send-cb.cgi be anywhere? so long as XML/Comeback.pm is in the same folder? or does it need to be in mt.cgi directory?
the form isnt remembering all of my info just the name
Posted by: Faf at January 19, 2003 05:56 AM
> mt-cg.cgi in your base MT directory
I think that was supposed to be "mt-cb.cgi".
Your page is a wonder of nested DIVs in Safari, too. Kinda cool :)
Posted by: Richard Soderberg at January 26, 2003 09:59 PM
Where did you get that blog script, it's really good
Posted by: blackjack at February 12, 2004 12:09 PM
Help! I have a problem!
When I add the line to my mt.cfg file, I get the following error when I try to log in:
"Got an error: ./mt.cfg:187: variable 'ComeBackScript' not defined"
Any ideas? I followed your instructions exactly and have uploaded all files using ASCII. Commenting out that line lets me in but I imagine it will also deactivate the ComeBack mechanism.
Posted by: Neil T. at January 14, 2003 08:52 AM