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Simply providing the author/artist and album/book title in the keyword search isn't doing it -- I keep getting books instead of DVDs and audio CDs.

Fortunately, that's just rewriting a Macro or two (er, four).

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=540

I've already got this simple but elegant hack working in phpBB. Now it's just a matter of porting it to my MT installation.

[EDIT]

Done! Want to know how to do it yourself? Read on! (Note: This MT add-on assumes you've already installed the fluffyblog Using phpBB as your MovableType comment engine in 23847392 easy steps tutorial to your MovableType installation.

Continue reading "Add Quick Reply phpBB hack to MT."

So I'll have to update the Fujifilm affiliate links in my bicycle touring packing list outfitting the multimedia traveller and to some new merchant.

[DONE]

Actually, wasn't linked to Wolfe Camera anyway, but this got me motivated to clean up some of the other stuff.

Here's something to research...

Side Blogs

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Continue reading "Side blogs"

With the current CSS banner class, a 100% width table forces the banner to be GT the window width. In Netscape, this doesn't cause any problems...but in IE -- lookout!

Have to rethink the banner formatting.

[EDIT] OK, that's done. Much better...

Also changed the templates for NoMad MaN to match My Messy Workbench.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=13386

Look for Davil's MOD.

Provides the user with the ability to subscribe to a whole forum!

This will also provide a "backdoor" method for allowing blog visitors to receive notificaiton of all new updates.

[EDIT]

That was just too complicated -- mod never seemed to get out of Beta, too many posts with suggested changes...

I'm about to try this one instead:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=293

Or at least I was until the site went down, just now!

It's back. We're on.

[EDIT jan 18, 04]

Completed. Want to know how? See New Topic Notification.

http://trikuare.cx/mt/archives/000425.php

Still working on step Get the correct comment counts.

[edit]

Comment counts installed.

Now working on comment display, which is not working at the moment. fetch_all is not getting the list of posts, for some reason.

[edit]

got that going (Missing CRLF at the end of a comment in the code, caused a crucial line to get deleted.

Next item up on this list is to integrate fluffy's display code, which includes login/logout links. Very nice.

[EDIT]

OK, done with that. Next up: recent discussions list, which should be easy enough...

[EDIT]

Actually, that took some debugging. Fluffy's php was hard-coded for FluffyBlog, so I abstracted the hard-coded stuff to allow a bit more flexibility for use in both my blogs.

It's operating in MyMessyWorkbench, just have to port it over to NoMad MaN -- but it's time to head out to my cousins' for xmas dinner...

[EDIT]

Complete!!

Just completed phase I of implementing phpBB as the new comment engine for this blog.

If you like the way the commenting facility is implemented on this site, kudos should be forwarded to fluffy, who wrote the tutorial describing how to do it (and added a bit of code to integrate MT and the phpBB forums which do it.)

The tutorial is big and takes numerous steps, but if you follow the instructions explicitly, it'll get you where you're going. I'd misread a step and fluffy was prompt and quite helpful in resolving the issue.

http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/glue.php

Install this plugin to provide "glue" functionality for MTCategoryList and other listing tags (Only MTEntryEntryCategories is empowered by MT to glue entries together.)

Use it to glue the category menu appearing at the top of the Category Index.

[EDIT completed JAN 06 03]

Also made some minor formatting revisions to the category archive.

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I created a Category Archive Index template in the Index Templates section. It creates the file http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/NoMadMan/CategoryIndex.html, listing all categories, with their descriptions, and the entries in them. It also uses <a name="..."> to create links to anchors within the document, which I use to build a menu bar at the top of the document.

To do this yourself, create a new index template called CategoryIndex.

Copy the default MasterArchive index template to your new CategoryIndex template.

Insert the code below into CategoryIndex, replacing the <MTArchive> container.

<div align="center">
<MTCategories glue=" | ">
    <a href="#<$MTCategoryLabel$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTCategories>
</div>
<div> </div>
<dl>
<MTCategories>
    <dt><a name="<$MTCategoryLabel$>"></a><a
    href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><h2><strong><$MTCategoryLabel$>
     (<$MTCategoryCount$>)</strong></h3></a> </dt>
<dd><blockquote><$MTCategoryDescription$></blockquote>
    <MTEntries>
        <a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><strong><$MTEntryTitle$></strong></a> :: 
        <MTEntryCategories glue=" | ">
        <a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><em><$MTCategoryLabel$>
        </em></a> </MTEntryCategories><br />
      </MTEntries>
    </dd>
      <br /><br />
</MTCategories></div>
</dl>

When you rebuild, there'll be a new CategoryIndex in your blog root directory. Just add links in your other templates and you're ready to go.

Obviously way too tired to be doing this. Slooooow. Bleh.

Anyway, finally got some category stuff displaying. Added some links to the header but also made it so the categories an entry is in will display to the right of the entry. Even wrote up a little tutorial for it, uhhh, yah here.

I'll knock off after propagating that code throughout the templates. That oughtta take, oh, another 5 hours!

How'd I get the "Notebook" category link to display on the same line as the entry title?

This one's really easy. First, take a look @ The MT Wiki MTCategory page. You'll get the basics there. And while you're there, bookmark the MT Wiki site -- very useful.

Armed with that little tidbit of knowledge, all I did was find MTEntryTitle tag in my index templates. They looked like

            <h3 class="title"><$MTEntryTitle$></h3>

I wrapped them in two-cell tables, like this.

<table width="100% border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign=top><td>
    <h3 class="title"><$MTEntryTitle$></h3>
</td><td align=right>
    <MTEntryCategories glue=", ">
        <a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
    </MTEntryCategories>
</td></tr></table> 

The title is in the left hand cell and the piece of code from MT Wiki is in the right-hand cell. I set that cell to right justify.

No sweat!

p.