Commenting on blogs Sep27 '04

# (1 of 5): Dale » dalegroup.net

7 minutes after the fact. (Mon 27 Sep 2004, 7:20 PM CST)

I suppose this brings up the topic. Should users register to blog sites? I know wordpress supports the option but many don't use it. Would it be easier to handle comments if there was some kind of login system? Although I think people like blogs because they can post once and don't feel like they need to say anymore.

I like that commenting system and have been planning to add *something* like that in mine. Although if I get around to it is another thing. :p

# (2 of 5): Dale » dalegroup.net

22 minutes after the fact. (Mon 27 Sep 2004, 7:36 PM CST)

/offtopic

Cool you got trackback working :D

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# (3 of 5): Matthom

29 minutes after the fact. (Mon 27 Sep 2004, 7:42 PM CST)

Dale, I can SEND trackbacks, but I can't RECEIVE them. I need some way of storing the trackback information in my database, and then displaying that as a comment, in the order that it was received.

You're not off the hook yet. I will still be bugging you about it. ;)

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# (4 of 5): Dale » blog.dalegroup.net

5 hours, 29 minutes after the fact. (Tue 28 Sep 2004, 12:42 AM CST)

The way I do it is I have another field called trackback in the database. If it is a normal comment the field = 0, if it is a trackback it is set to 1. Then you just check it as you display the comment and change it as needed.

Wordpress does it differently. It stores the trackback inside these tags: (is that going to display?) and checks that when it reads it out of the database.

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# (5 of 5): Joshua Street » joahua.com

2 days, 3 hours after the fact. (Wed 29 Sep 2004, 10:28 PM CST)

Hmm. Dale, your trackback sending is broken... observe the post here: http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/09/26/freetel-are-evil#comment-110

"Spam by $_POST" -- looks as though your PHP is a little muddled...

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