Comments on: Smart “Edit This Entry” Links in Movable Type

By: byte AliBaba@KOR

byte AliBaba@KOR — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:48:50 +0000

Thanks Sam!
This is something I’ve wanted to find.
Hmm…
Why not so many comments are in here?
This is very very good entry.
I think this method is the best one.

Ah~ In above mt3.0, I guess your suggestion is adapted by six-apart.
I found cookie name was changed “user”—> “mt_user”.

Thank you!^^

By: Jason Mevius

Jason Mevius — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:03:09 +0000

I was searching for an ‘add an entry’ link for a collaborative calendar site. Could this be modified so that if you’re logged in as a MT user for the system, that you could click the calendar date to add a new entry with that date prepassed to MT’s ‘New Entry’ functionality?

I’m horrible at PHP. Any ideas?

By: sam

sam — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:18:30 +0000

Updated with Mark’s suggestion!

By: sam

sam — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:00:49 +0000

Good call, Mark!

I’m not used to logins that aren’t case sensitive (I’m a *nix dude), so I never even thought to check if MT’s login was case sensitive or not. Your suggestions make perfect sense, eregi() seems to be the correct function to use, just for elegancy reasons.

Its very late and I’m going to bed. However, tomorrow I’ll update my script, make sure it works, and then update this page.

Thanks.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:07:09 +0000

Yeah, me again. So as it turns out, if you use eregi() instead of ereg(), the string search is case insensitive.

“Take note that ereg() is case sensitive! For case-insensitive use eregi().” from http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpref/42.php

Okay, I’ll leave you alone now!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:00:47 +0000

Found it! If you use the function strtolower() or strtoupper() on both strings before comparing them, it will eliminate this problem.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:53:24 +0000

WARNING: this script is case-sensitive, but your MT login ISN’T. For example, if your MT login is “John”... “john” will work to log you into MT. But when this script tries to match the cookie to your author name, they will not match case, and you won’t get your “edit” link. So what you need to do is log out of MT, flush your cookie, then log into MT but MATCH THE CASE of your MT username. That way it will be saved to the cookie as such and then everything will work as intended. If I knew more about PHP I’d suggest a way to make the cookie check not case sensitive… maybe I’ll go research that.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:40:59 +0000

Awesome. Since I had a dynamic IP address, the only way I could validate that I was myself was to use the No-IP service, and compare the IP address associated with that address with my current IP. If they matched, I made the link. But this is more elegant and useful for people who do not want to use a dynamic dns service like No-IP.

By: Andrew's Blog

Andrew's Blog — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:38:30 +0000

Convenient \”Edit This Post\” links

Inspired by Sam, I implemented, for use in b2, the EditThisPost stuff that Sam implemented for use with MovableType. It is a good idea. When I get too many comments, or when I next see some comment spam, I’ll implement “edit this comment” link…