104 Responses to EZ Subscribe To Comments
  1. Oscar Says:
    March 15th, 2005 at 11:57 pm

    Tom - I’m sorry to say that I just haven’t kept up with this script, since it is basically obsolete and MT Notifier is a far more elegant solution. EZ SHOULDN’T conflict with MTBlacklist though, but I don’t understand why the script should time out in just looking at subscriptions either, even if the database is empty. I don’t see an obvious problem. Perhaps it is having trouble accessing the database? Or writing to it? But I can’t imagine why this would be, especially because Blacklist uses plugindata also, so if that’s working, EZ should also. Sorry I can’t help better. But, I would definitely consider Notifier.

  2. Tom Keating Says:
    March 15th, 2005 at 10:43 pm

    I use MTBlacklist on my MT 2.661 blogs installed on IIS running ActivePerl. I can access the sub-to-com.cgi interface just fine. But when I try and “Show Subscriptions” or click “Show Subascriptions by Email” the script times out.

    Also when I post a comment, it goes through successfully, but I never receive any notification.

    I wonder if MTBlacklist is interfering?

    Here’s a link to my Comment Listing Script in case you see anything obvious. Thanks in advance for your help. Comments Listing

    (saved as text file)

    Also, if you have a debugging test script, please email it to me.

  3. e Says:
    February 15th, 2005 at 07:41 pm

    hi oscar,

    great work on the plugin. i seem to be having the same problem that kevin dangoor had around 2/12 of last year. the script installs fine, the interface comes up ok, and everything looks right. but when i post and subscribe, while MT notifies me as the blog owner that a post has been made, and i can see the subscription in the sub-to-com.cgi interface, nothing actually happens. instead, i see this in the error log:

    [Tue Feb 15 14:08:24 2005] [error] [client 198.95.226.224] File does not exist: /home/ed/public_html/500.shtml
    [Tue Feb 15 14:08:24 2005] [error] [client 198.95.226.224] Premature end of script headers: /home/ed/public_html/mt/sub-to-com.cgi

    any ideas?

    thanks!

  4. Oscar Says:
    December 11th, 2004 at 02:17 pm

    Okay, faf, now you’re asking the tough questions, since it’s been awhile since I’ve looked at this thing closely, but for you, I’ll look again ...

    Let’s try this ...

    Go to line 3839

    There you will se the following code. These are the hidden values passed in the usual MT comments template.

    ————————————————
    <form method="post" action="$script_name" name="comments_form"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="$form{entry_id}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="author" value="$form{author}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="email" value="$form{email}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="url" value="$form{url}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="bakecookie" value="$form{bakecookie}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="text" value="$form{text}"/>
    ————————————————

    Duplicate the last line, and then change the word "text" to whatever the name of your random number field is, so if it is named "foobar" you have:

    ————————————————
    <form method="post" action="$script_name" name="comments_form"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="$form{entry_id}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="author" value="$form{author}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="email" value="$form{email}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="url" value="$form{url}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="bakecookie" value="$form{bakecookie}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="text" value="$form{text}"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="foobar" value="$form{foobar}"/>
    ————————————————

    I think that might just do it, but let me know what happens, and we can troubleshoot further if it doesn’t work.

  5. Faf Says:
    December 11th, 2004 at 01:29 pm

    i would rather modify it to work for me… can you show me where exactly to make the changes to pass the extra values.

    i’ve got one value for a random number for spam checking but it doesnt get passed on… so the first time submission always fails

  6. Oscar Says:
    December 11th, 2004 at 01:13 pm

    Maggie, I have no idea whether this script works with MT3 - I would doubt it. But, nonetheless, you should get it to come up at the stage of installation you are talking about.

    I would recommend using Chad’s Notifier plugin for MT3, but if you wish to try mine, let me know how it goes. I would just try re-uploading the script - maybe it got corrupted on upload.

    Thanks for pointing out my page load problem, btw. I think I fixed that Damned computers!!!

    And, I am fine. Hope all is well with you too

  7. Oscar Says:
    December 11th, 2004 at 01:08 pm

    faf - no, the script does not pass every variable passed to it. I didn’t have any reason to write it that way at the time, though it would have been nice if I had. Any new variable would have to be hard-coded into the script.

    I am recommending Chad’s Notifier plugin to people, since it is much more professionally written, and he has kept up development through the latest versions of MT. EZSTC has never really satisfied me because I tried to do it without hacking MT code, and that was never 100% possible. It has always had a few problems.

  8. Maggie Says:
    December 10th, 2004 at 01:35 pm

    Hi Oscar,  I’m doing a fresh install of your script, however, when I point my browser to http://divamaggie.com/sub-to-com.cgi I get nothing .  The sub-to-com.cgi is CHMOD to 755 and I’m not sure WTF is up.  Any ideas??  btw…your pages are taking forever to load.  Did you know that.  btw…how the heck are you???

  9. Faf Says:
    December 9th, 2004 at 04:48 am

    do you know if this script passes every field submitted to it by the form to the mt comments script?

    i implemented a spam prevention solution that require passing a random number to mt comments but it seem to fail everytime a submission has to go thru sub-to-com.

  10. Oscar Says:
    August 27th, 2004 at 09:10 pm

    Hi Kymberlie - Well, allow me to say that without having looked more closely at it, if I were going to implement this function right now on an MT blog, I would use Chad’s Notifier plugin. 1) It is up to date, 2) it is integrated into the MT code in a way that I tried to avoid (for now essentially obsolete reasons) and thus is not dependent on weird ways that different browsers operate, and ... well ... a lot of reasons.

    That said, a number of people do use this script with plenty of satisfaction, so, since it is installed, you could stick with it. If I ever get a free minute, I will try to add CSS to the processing window. In the meantime, it does accept HTML, so you can paste the CSS in there (I know ... it duplicates it), but that would work, unless you have many skins.

    The next couple of weeks will be impossible for me, so there’s no way I can get to looking at it, but maybe sometime after that I could tune it up.

    Chad’s plugin gets rid of that whole processing window anyway, and makes the whole subscription thing essentially transparent the way it should be, btw ...

  11. Kymberlie R. McGuire Says:
    August 27th, 2004 at 10:54 am

    I’ve applied this to my blog and it seems to be working.  The only question I have is this: is there anyway to apply a CSS file to the processing screen?  I had my comments posting screen set so that it would pull from a matching CSS file.

  12. Dan Says:
    August 11th, 2004 at 07:12 pm

    Tested with Firefox and IE6.  When I posted a comment on my test post, I get 5 emails now, in this order:

    1. From: comments, To: testing@...
    2. From: comments, To: testing2@...
    3. From: testing2, To: myemail@...
    4. From: comments, To: testing@...
    5. From: comments, To: testing2@...

    Anything else I can look up that might help?

    My test post is here:

      http://www.vraal.com/MT/dan/archives/000244.html

    Thanks!

    Dan

  13. Oscar Says:
    August 11th, 2004 at 07:04 pm

    Hi Dan,

    Does it do this with all browsers? The problem with this script has always been trying to make it hackless, and there was always something of a race condition with browsers - each one handled onUnLoad and the like a little differently. Sometimes, people’s individual servers handled the same code differently - causing some to send, some to send twice, and some not to send at all. That said, it was very rare that I would get this complaint. So, I’m not entirely sure, but it would be helpful if you could test with a couple of different browsers ... (also, presumably with the latest version of the script) ... thanks ...

  14. Dan Says:
    August 11th, 2004 at 06:18 pm

    I’m trying to get STC working correctly, and it does send out emails, great!  The problem I’m seeing is that it seems to be sending two copies of emails?

    Any idea what I’m doing wrong?  I just followed the manual instructions, and am using inline comments.

    Any hints welcome!

  15. Says:
    May 14th, 2004 at 01:02 pm

    test

  16. Oscar Says:
    April 28th, 2004 at 01:22 am

    I’ve been testing MT3 since the alpha as well, with the initial plan of tweaking this script to update it for compatibility. I have assumed that the new plugin hooks would allow me to do away with some of the old kludges. I have a MT3 test blog up and running and it looks great! Unfortunately, however, I have been so busy with real-life work that I just haven’t had the time to take a close look at the script with respect to MT3. I hope to get to it sometime soon! I welcome any information and/or suggestions.

  17. Justin Baeder Says:
    April 28th, 2004 at 01:09 am

    Adam-
    I can’t think of a way to do that without manually copying your template into the custom page box, which I’m assuming you know about. I don’t think includes would work, since those processing pages are CGI files. I’ll be interested to see your implementation.

  18. Adam Says:
    April 28th, 2004 at 12:14 am

    Now that MT3 is in public beta and I can officially “come out” as a tester, I was wondering if this plugin is compatible with 3.0 as-is. If you’re not sure yet yourself, I can try it out on my “guinea pig” blog and let you know how it goes.

  19. Matt Says:
    April 27th, 2004 at 10:10 pm

    Great script! Is there anyway to make it so it can include my main template for the Processing your comment ... page and also the page that loads when just subscribing to the entry and not posting a comment?

  20. Jason Lefkowitz Says:
    April 21st, 2004 at 12:05 am

    Oscar,

    I recently moved my EZ-Subscribe-To-Comments enabled blog from one host to another, and now I get a 500 error when I try to get to the sub-to-com.cgi script via my Web browser.  I checked my HTTP error logs, and found this:

    “Storable binary image v2.5 more recent than I am (v2.4) at blib/lib/Storable.pm
    (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 355, at lib/MT/PluginData
    .pm line 28”

    I was getting a similar error when I installed MT-Blacklist, so I used the YAML option instead of relying on Storable… but thing is, on my old host I had both MT-Blacklist (YAML version) and EZ Sub-to-Com working fine.  So a Storable issue with MT-B is not necessarily a dead-end with Sub-to-Com.

    I checked the script, it’s set to 755.  Can’t figure out what else to do… any thoughts?

    Thanks for the excellent script!

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