This is Really old news, but I thought I’d post about it since I slacked and didn’t earlier. TextPattern Gamma 1.0 has been released. I’ve been waiting for this. Of course, it’s still Gamma, but it shows incredible potential. I’ve only installed it locally on my mac, but I might (should I find time) install it on a public web server. So far I like it.

Ok so I was watching the previews, only to realize that one of the girls in The Girl Next Door is none other than Sung-Hi Lee! (Sung Hi’s site contains nudity) Now, I’m just about thinking about going to see this movie. Even though it looks stupid, can’t pass up a movie with Sung Hi in it. I missed most of the episodes of Mortal Kombat when she was in there. :cowtiny:

Ok, so I forgot to eat dinner today. Just had some fishsticks. Not bad. But they would taste better with some tartar sauce. I mean, who casually has tartar sauce in their fridge?

Chris at chrisruzin.net has developed a Blogtimes Plugin for ExpressionEngine! I love it, now I need to compile the GD Library into PHP then I’ll be set! :)

Here’s to all the developers creating cool plugins! :cowtiny:

Ask and ye shall receive! Dave has requested the inline comments and trackbacks. Well, I’ve come up with something, and here it is! This is still a preliminary script, and I can’t guarantee that it will work, but I do have it working on this site, and I’m pretty confident that it will work fine. This plugin is easy to set up, just upload it into your plugins directory in your system directory. The instructions are in the ZIP file as well as USAGE.

pi.tbcomment.zip

If you have any problems with this, please let me know. This plugin is still experimental!

Ok. I now have SimpleComments beta 1 working here on this site (EE Blog). There is one big issue:

Formatting. The way we can put certain tags and display comments with our own format makes it very hard to format a trackback entry. Because of the way we have it set up, It’s not quite as easy as putting them in and going with it. I’m up for any suggestions on how to accomplish a “standard” on how to display trackbacks within comments.

That’s the only problem that I have right now. Does anyone have any comments about that? To see it in action, just click on the comments of any trackback entry and you’ll see what I mean.

Ok. Here are some issues I’m having. I need some mySQL help here.

Basically what needs to be done to combine the trackbacks and the comments is to combine the two tables into one. This would require a UNION command.

I understand that there is no UNION command in MySQL 3.x. There is support in 4+, but I don’t use 4, and I want to make this plugin usable by either version. I understand there is a method to “simulate” UNION commands. (UNION in MySQL 3.x)

The only issue I see with this is that I have to create a “dummy” table. I’d hate to have to have people create one just to use the plugin. Is there not a way to set create a temporary table? I remember having to do that in the past for PsychoBlogger to simulate doing sub-selects. I’m just not sure if that will work properly.

Anyone have any experience with this? I’m just wondering if that will suffice.

As was requested, I have made a “recent trackbacks” plugin. This one works just about exactly like the Recent Commented Entries plugin, but instead displays your most recent trackbacks.

pi.recent_trackbacks.zip

Unzip and follow the installation instructions. Usage instructions are also included in the ZIP file. If you cannot download the file by clicking on it, right click to save.

Disclamation Proclamation: I can’t guarantee this won’t harm your install. This plugin is unsupported by pMachine, and any questions regarding this plugin should be directed to me.

Ok, since Dave asked for it, I’m working on it. EE SimpleComment. Basically it’ll be just like MT SimpleComment. Except it’s for ExpressionEngine.

I’ve decided to make it a plug-in instead of a module, because 1. modules aren’t that easy. :) 2. it only displays stuff. This plugin does NOT take the place of the comments module. There’s way too much there for me to remake it. Why reinvent the wheel when Rick has already done a great job?

So look forward to it in the next few days for testing. Happy days! :cowtiny: