tips and tricks for movable type
permalinks for comments
August 04, 2002
This bit of code will make the comment date a permalink to the comment on your Individual Archives Page. (I haven't yet thought hard enough on how to create a link that pulls up the pop-up comments window.)
In your Comments Listing Template and your Individual Archive Template, modify the default code like this (key changes in color):
<div class="comments-body">
<a name="<MTCommentID pad="1">"></a>
<$MTCommentBody$>
<span class="comments-post">Posted by: <$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$> at <a href="<MTEntryLink archive_type="Individual">#<$MTCommentID pad="1"$>" "self.status='permanent link to this comment';return true" "self.status='';return true"><$MTCommentDate format="%I:%M %p"$></a></span>
</div>
</MTComments>
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Comments
That's great! Thank you. :)
Cool, thanks!
i am extremely thick when it comes to these things... i only have Monthly archives, would i just substitue "monthly" for "individual" in that hunk of code?
thanks :)
oh hang on, scratch my last comment... that won't work will it? coz it links to the individual archive page.
what i am after is something like Meg uses at notsosoft, except she doesn't use MT... i should post this on the MT forums shouldn't i.. hehe
Try this code instead:
<div class="comments-body">
<a name="<MTCommentID pad="1">"></a>
<$MTCommentBody$>
<span class="comments-post">Posted by: <$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$> at <a href="<$MTCGIPath$>mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>#<$MTCommentID pad="1"$>" "self.status='permanent link to this comment';return true" "self.status='';return true"><$MTCommentDate format="%I:%M %p"$></a></span>
</div>
</MTComments>
That gives you a permalink that will bring up the contents of your popup comments window (though not in an actual popup window - but that's the same thing Meg's permalinks do).
I guess linking to the popup didn't require as much thinking as I originally imagined when I posted this entry - but I'd still like to see it pull up a popup size window. Doable with Javascript, but I'd want it to be friendly to non-Javascript browsers like MT's OpenComments function is. Too close to my bedtime to get caught up in that right now! =)
Oops - scratch part of that - you can't use this:
#<$MTCommentID pad="1"$>
So, while it will link to the popup page for that entry's comments, you can't link to the specific comment's anchored location on that page - because the URL calls the mt-comment.cgi script, not a static HTML document.
Unless someone else has some ideas! =)
Gosh, another thought:
If <MTEntryID> doesn't work, try <MTCommentEntryID> instead.
Strangely, I can't locate anything in the MT docs that confirms that MTEntry tags work in an MTComments listing - yet the first code I posted (which I use here in this blog) contains an MTEntryLink tag, and it works just fine. Hmmmm. I thought you needed an MTCommentEntry container tag to do that.
woo hoo! You and your code/scripts ROCK!
thanks :)
I'm sort of new at this and I am having a hard time getting this to work. I replaced the code and nothing happened. All I want is a little "permalink" at the bottom of each entry. What am I missing? Is there some other code somewhere that needs to be changed? I feel dumb asking this...but I am not sleeping much these days and I just can't figure it out.
thank you again. I am using this one on my site. I'll have to update my toolbox blog and link these posts of your I'm finding.
Execellent!
thx
Thanks for posting this. Random question, though: My sidebar has a section for links to recent comments, which takes advantage of these permalinks. On my main index page, this works brilliantly. On my individual archive pages, though, what I end up with are only links to recent comments on that entry. The code is exactly the same in both places. Any sense of what I need to do in order to make the recent comments listing reflect the entire site on the individual entry pages? Thanks!