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important note about comments

Date: March 07, 2003 | 2 Muharram 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: website, features
I decided to try my comments upgrade tonight. It's kind of working and kind of not. You can post comments and they will be displayed, but the threading doesn't work yet and comment subjects don't work yet. It appears to be a problem with writing to the database. I have sent an email message to the developer of the threaded comments script asking for help.

You will notice that I no longer have pop-up windows for my comments. When you click on the "Comments" link, you will be taken to the display of existing comments (if any) in the same browser window. When you go to post a comment, it will also open in the same window.

This part is very important: If you get a 500 error while posting a comment, there is a link on the error page that will get you back to the blog home page. Please follow this link rather than clicking the "Back" button on your browser. If you click the "Back" button your comment will be double-posted or you may get caught in a loop. The link to the blog home page is your escape route. Go to the blog home page, and find your way back to the blog entry to try again. I know this is a hassle, but now that you can no longer just close a pop-up window to escape, it's the best you can do.

Inshallah, I will be able to get the database problems fixed soon and can finish my comments upgrade. If it just doesn't work, then I can go back to the old way of doing comments.


Update

While I'm waiting to hear back from the developer of the threaded comments script, I've added two more features to my comments. These are Live Comment Preview and clickable smilies. When you are typing your comment, a live preview will show up along the side of the comment entry form. The smilies will also show up as images instead of code in Live Comment Preview if you use clickable smilies to insert them. Clickable smilies of course are just that. Open the smilies palette, and click on the image of the smilie that you wish to insert.

Spell-checking, threaded comments, comment subjects, live preview, and clickable smilies were the features that I wanted to add in my comments upgrade. Threading and comment subjects are still not working, but the rest is good to go, al-hamdulillah. I hope that you find these new features of benefit to you, inshallah.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 01:03 AM

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one of the top five commentors on this blog! LauraJ said: Total comments: 17   gold star

Hey Al-M, just wanted to let you know that I did get a 500 error, clicked the link, but was taken to a totally different page on the site.

Also, my message did show up in the thread.

~ Posted at March 7, 2003 08:30 PM | Comment Permalink
moderator Al-Munaqabah said: Total comments: 996   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

There are three links on the error page, because I'm using it for three different blogs. Two of them start with "Al-Muhajabah" and the other one is called "niqabi". Does that describe what you saw? If so, you may have clicked on the wrong link. I checked the URLs on my error page and they appear to be correct.

One of the reasons I'm trying to stress that people shouldn't click the "back" button is that it does re-submit the comment and most of the time their comment made it into the database after all. I'm trying to cut down on double-posts this way. Basically, what's going on is that when the comment is submitted, MT stores it in the database then rebuilds all the pages where the comment or a comment count might appear. Sometimes the server kills the process during the rebuild. So the comment is in the database but the rebuild is only partly done. That's why it will show up sometimes.

~ Posted at March 7, 2003 08:59 PM | Comment Permalink

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