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1. Oscar Says:
   April 18th, 2004 at 06:30 pm

   Thanks Justin. Yes, people often don’t know about that line. Very important for inline!

2. Justin Baeder Says:
   April 18th, 2004 at 05:51 pm

   Oscar- I just had a problem with my comment-posting code in my individual archives (I use inline comments) that I thought would be helpful to share.
   My “remember me” feature was not working (unrelated to EZSTC), and in the process of fixing it, I inadvertently deleted this line of code:
   <input type=“hidden” name=“static” value=“1” />
   from this section of my template:
   <div class=“comments-body”>
   <form method=“post” action=”<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>” name=“comments_form” onsubmit=“if (this.bakecookie[0].checked) rememberMe(this)”>
   <input type=“hidden” name=“static” value=“1” />
   <input type=“hidden” name=“entry_id” value=”<$MTEntryID$>” />
   This omission makes MT take the user to the MT comment script after they post a comment, which isn’t good if you aren’t using popup comments. I assume the “static” part means one is using inline comments rather than viewing from “mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=xxx”.
   Like I said, it really has nothing to do with EZSTC other than that I could just as easily have deleted that crucial line when installing EZSTC. Also, people like me may blame your script when this is the error. Thanks for the great script.
   Oh, and ShoutBox spam seems to be growing…

3. minori Says:
   April 6th, 2004 at 10:09 am

   Hello!
   I installed your great plug-in. It works just fine with English Posts.

   But I sometimes use Japanese, which contains 2 byte characters. When I use Japanese in comment, the letters are destroyed. I think I need to set CHARSET to UTF-8 and I tried hard to find where in the code to modify, but never succeed.

   Would you please give me some hint?
   Thank you very much in advance.

4. Oscar Says:
   March 8th, 2004 at 11:38 am

   Hi Paul - I DID get your email. Sorry to be long in responding, but I have been overloaded with non-computer work. I willm take a look as soon as I can ...

5. Paul Says:
   March 8th, 2004 at 08:41 am

   Hi Oscar,
   I sent you an email a few days ago about my problems…
   I don t know if you had time to look at him but my server went down for a few hours this We and some mails might have been lost… please let me know.
   Thank you for your time and help. and devotion.

6. Oscar Says:
   February 19th, 2004 at 05:19 pm

   Thanks Justin. The test script I sent just cleaned up a few things, but I have no idea whether any of that is really necessary. So far, the folks who have had trouble have solved it by hunting down other problems on their servers. I am working on a few other things related to the script, so I won’t bother with another release at the moment unless someone finds that the current script doesn’t work for them. Thanks again for the update.

7. Justin Baeder Says:
   February 19th, 2004 at 01:01 pm

   To answer your question - I’m not sure which part wasn’t working. It may just have been the MT template/form tags. At any rate, subscriptions are working. Thanks!

8. Justin Baeder Says:
   February 19th, 2004 at 12:29 pm

   After I installed the script you emailed me, I still couldn’t get it to work. When I uploaded the plugindata module, it started working. I had also had a few issues with closing the tags in the wrong place, but this was easier to fix because I could just copy and paste from a site that worked (in this case, MT-Plugins, since I like their layout and use the same features). It works great now.

   I hope this experience is useful to others. To summarize what I did (not in order, but what ideally would have been the order):
   1. I had my webhost install the storable.pm module, which they did within ten minutes, since it wasn’t already on the server.
   2. I installed the plugindata.pm module in cgi-bin/extlib/MT/plugins. CHMOD to 755. (not sure if this is necessary)
   3. I added the EZ Subscribe to Comments plugin file to my main MT directory (the cgi-bin). CHMOD to 755.
   4. I modified my templates to include the necessary subscription forms (by copying the HTML from pages like this one that work).
   5. I tested it with my email account.

9. Oscar Says:
   February 19th, 2004 at 06:18 am

   Justin - Which thing worked? The plugindata module or the test script I sent you?

10. Justin Baeder Says:
    February 19th, 2004 at 03:07 am

    Ah, yes. That works. Thanks for your help and excellent plugin!

11. Justin Baeder Says:
    February 19th, 2004 at 02:36 am

    I’m still trying to get it to work…I think I have Plugindata in the wrong place or not installed. Where does it go? I found a copy of it somewhere, and put it in /extlib/MT/plugins. Is this where it goes?
    Thanks!

12. Justin Baeder Says:
    February 18th, 2004 at 07:20 pm

    Thanks for writing this great script. It’s running, and I have all the modules installed on my server, but I’m not getting the emails when I try a test subscription on my site. So I thought I’d do a post here after subscribing and see if it works. Thanks!

13. Oscar Says:
    February 13th, 2004 at 09:45 pm

    You have all the modules you need on your linux server.

    If you are getting a “Premature end of script headers” each time you post a comment to an entry that has a subscription, then there is either a server side problem or some bad data in the comment listing template being passed. I just can’t get the script to produce an error here (not to say that there might not be a bug somewhere).

    Do you have a link to the test blog I could take a quick look at? Otherwise, I’m just not sure what the problem is ... no one else has reproted it (yet!) ...

14. Kevin Dangoor Says:
    February 13th, 2004 at 09:21 pm

    I do get the comment emails from MT (including the handy link back to MT-Blacklist). So, MT doesn’t have any issue sending mail. There are no other required perl modules or anything?

15. Oscar Says:
    February 13th, 2004 at 02:09 pm

    Hmmm ... it doesn’t throw any errors on either of my two servers, so I’m not sure what the problem might be. Do you get regular notification emails of posted comments yourself? Are you possibly not hooked into your emailer? This uses MT’s Perl email hook.

16. Kevin Dangoor Says:
    February 12th, 2004 at 10:33 pm

    Yes, the script’s info page does come up, and my test subscriptions are even saved. I had actually already changed some settings (most specifically the sending email address). So, it would appear that the database is set up OK.

    I’m using Mozilla 1.5 and haven’t tried any other browser with it at this point. The symptoms seem to point to a server-side issue, anyhow.

    Unfortunately, I don’t have much access to poke around on my server. I could try adding some logging statements to the script sometime to see if I can track down the problem. I figured I’d see if you had heard of anything similar before I went down that route…

17. Oscar Says:
    February 12th, 2004 at 10:17 pm

    Hi Kevin - No, it should work. Try these two things - first point your browser to the script. Does the script’s Info page come up? (I assume so, since you got to the instructions). If so, go to the configuration page and select the blog, then click “Save” for any one of the sections. That should establish the database (it should work without this, but ...).

    Then try a test again. Also, what browser are you using? Does it work with a different one? Any info you have will help me track down the problem.

    Also, did you subscribe to a test post? Does the subscription show up in the management page?

18. Kevin Dangoor Says:
    February 12th, 2004 at 10:04 pm

    Hi, Oscar

    This looks like a great script! I’ve set it up on my test blog, and the comments are posted to the site just fine, but I haven’t received any email messages. I have MT-Blacklist installed, so I should have all of the pre-reqs met. Other than cosmetic changes, I’ve pulled the forms straight out of the instructions.

    I just looked at my server error log, and it is showing the rather unhelpful message “Premature end of script headers”. This despite the fact that I am forwarded on to the comment listing page.

    Is there anything else I need to have installed for sending to work properly?

    Thanks!

19. Oscar Says:
    February 11th, 2004 at 10:46 am

    Hi Kristine - Yes, I saw that link at the Directory, and was reminded of that function in the ScriptyGoddess version. The short answer is that a link is sent with every notification e-mail (at least that’s the default - blog owners can elect not to include it). When users click on the link, which includes a 10 character code unique to their subscription to that entry, they are brought to a page where they can manage all their subscriptions, i.e., change the duration, unsubscribe, opt-out of an entry, or opt out of the whole site.
    If they unsubscribe to the entry that brought them to the page, they can only get back to the page by following the link and code from another one of their subscriptions - since the code for that one is now gone. But, they can choose all the actions they want first, and then click “Update” on the user page.

    Heh, that was the short answer. The long answer is:

    When Jennifer at ScriptyGoddess first solicited contributions to the “subscribe to comments” problem, she was particularly interested in comment and subscription security. In the original version, I think the worst malice a person could wreak on the “Manage Your Subscriptions” page would have been to sign in with someone else’s email address and delete all their subscriptions (not likely really). Now, they would be able to add an entry-wide or site-wide opt out as well. It just seemed better to ensure that only the person actually receiving the notification email would be given access to their “manage” page - hence the code. But, once there, they can manage ALL their subscriptions at once.

    I am open to suggestions. It would be easy to allow a link where people could just use the email address without the code. I could include that as an option in the configuration page, but it seems a little too “unsecure” for these times. But I will respoind to what folks want in the script.

20. kristine Says:
    February 11th, 2004 at 01:26 am

    Oscar, on the ScriptyGoddess script, there was a way to add a “manage subscriptions” link right in the Individual Archive for the entry.  (the plugin directory still has this link, even though it doesn’t work, because I haven’t had a chance to figure this out until now ) Now I see that when I make a comment, it tells me where to go to manage my subscription, but is there a generic URL that can be used for USERS to see all their subscriptions in one place?

    Under “Reader Interface Page”, it sounds like there isn’t, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask.   Thanks!

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