Script: List-recent-comments (GM, PHP and perl)

Feb 13 2002

coding

At long last (read: I finally asked Gareth how to do this) I’ve finally managed to sit down and write a greymatter modification that generates an external file with data about recent comments. I’ve currently got it set up to generate five results, but it can be customized for as many or as few comments as your little journaling heart desires.

As usual, it made perfect sense once I finally gave up and said to Gareth, “How in the world do I do this?” He gave me five lines of explanation, and that turned out to be all I needed.You can pick up a copy of the recent-comments.zip file here. It contains a code snippet to add to gm-comments.cgi, as well as directions on how to modify the final PHP output.

Now that this is done, I can finally do what I’ve wanted to do for ages—enable comments on all posts over on geek-chick.net. Let the madness begin.

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Submitted by gfmorris on 14 February 2002 - 9:26am

w00T! Now, the question is, can I take the code snippet that's inserted into gm-comments for the next GM upgrade?

Submitted by domesticat on 14 February 2002 - 9:30am

I'm not so certain that it's a good idea to make this a part of the standard package. The path to the data file has to be edited. Oh, I suppose you could just drop it in the cgi-bin directory and be done with it, but here's the key...the second part of the mod requires PHP to decode the data file. Thereby implying that you've gotta have PHP to run GM, which isn't the case. You just have to have PHP to run 99% of the mods that I write.

Submitted by gfmorris on 14 February 2002 - 1:09pm

Well, we could do some code remangling in porting the thing from a PHPish way to a Perlish version.

Submitted by passer by (not verified) on 1 August 2002 - 12:21pm

Awsome .. thx.

Submitted by Maggie (not verified) on 30 January 2003 - 9:27am

Hi there, I am trying to implement this code on my daughter's site at http://brie.divamaggie.com . My question is...where I have to put $comment_logfile="/path/to/your/recent_comments.php"; would it be "/divamaggie/brie/recent_comments.php" ? as http://brie.divamaggie.com is where the main index is located. Is this file recent_comments.php the new file that must be created and CHMOD'ed to 666? I'm just not certain how to enter the path correctly in gm-comments.cgi , recent_comments_display.php and whether or not there is a blank file to be made called recent_comments.php. I would really appreciate your help in this regard.

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