Request : subscribe to comment plugin ?

Andrew · 2005-05-28 15:09:20

Very true. I actually did just that for the admin notepad plugin (and previously the notepad hack).

MattH · 2005-08-11 20:41:04

Just to bump the thread: This is a feature that I’d really love to have. Any progress or hackish solution?

Andrew · 2005-08-13 15:11:09

I have it on my to-do list for monday when I get back in town to at least try and assess the status of this – I’ll let you know.

alicson · 2005-08-13 16:25:29

> Andrew wrote:
> I have it on my to-do list for monday

for he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fe-el-low….. which nobody can deny!!

Andrew · 2005-08-16 06:35:48

Ok, I’ve submitted a bare-bones beta patch (that likely will need quite a bit of major adjustments) in order to get per-post comments feeds in RSS. I’ll move on to Atom after I receive a response. The good news is that it looks like quite a reasonable modification, as long as I’m not ignoring something major.

As far as subscriptions go, (like MT’s emailing of comments and subscription management), I hope it doesn’t disappoint anyone that I won’t be touching that. I feel that feeds for comments are more than sufficient for keeping readers updated.

Andrew · 2005-08-16 19:52:13

Ok, patch updated. I’m not recommending this to any inexperienced users, but if anyone feels like playing around a bit you can grab the patch and try it out. It was based off of v4.0 r807.

You may be asking why I did this approach instead of a plugin. Well, first off it’s not possible to modify rss.php’s and atom.php’s behavior from within a plugin. So that meant I really was looking at creating a standalone drop-n-go file, which would just complicate things. This patch is forward-friendly (if you’re svn-savvy) and can easily be brought into the core, once approved.

Affected files:

/textpattern/publish/rss.php
/textpattern/publish/atom.php
/textpattern/publish/taghandlers.php

It also adds a tag <txp:comments_feed_link />, which is similar in functionality to the other txp feed tags.

Acceptable URLs are as follows:

http://domain.tld/?rss=1&area=comments (all comments rss feed)
http://domain.tld/?atom=1&area=comments (all comments atom feed)
http://domain.tld/?rss=1&area=comments&id=1 (per-post rss feed for id 1)
http://domain.tld/?atom=1&area=comments&id=1 (per-post atom feed for id 1)
http://domain.tld/?rss=1&area=comments&limit=20 (all comments rss feed limit 20)
http://domain.tld/?atom=1&area=comments&limit=20 (all comments atom feed limit 20)

There may be bugs or changes, so maybe only install on a test site for now unless you know what you’re doing.

Future features that are outside of this scope:

Clean feeds (this goes hand-in-hand with also extending /rss & /atom to accept section, category, limit)
Per-category & per-section comment feeds? (sorta superfluous)

Last edited by Andrew (2005-11-09 05:53:13)

Andrew · 2005-08-16 21:33:05

I’ve set up a download for those of you who may want to try it out (unzip to /textpattern/publish). It includes the three files that you’ll need to replace and is intended for use with Txp v4.0.

This isn’t for the faint of heart however, and I strongly recommend that you first backup and thoroughly compare your originals with the replacement files. A file-diffing utility such as Beyond Compare would help to easily see what changed between files.

Andrew · 2005-08-16 21:42:58

And for those of you who can’t do without email subscriptions (I acknowledge that most inhabitants of the InterWebNets are still not feed-savvy), perhaps some combination of this with R-Mail?

Andrew · 2005-08-31 16:19:26

bump Any word on the feasibility of this patch, zem?

tinyfly · 2005-08-31 21:45:05

Right now you can set your RSS feed so that any new comments will update the feed and it will show up as new in your reader.

alicson · 2005-08-31 21:55:27

> tinyfly wrote:
> Right now you can set your RSS feed so that any new comments will update the feed and it will show up as new in your reader.

yea, that’s a nice option, but not quite the same thing is it. ;)

Andrew · 2005-08-31 22:00:07

Yes, not at all the same – and for two reasons:

It doesn’t contain the content of the comments in the feed.
This will trick web-based readers (normal readers, too) into constantly thinking your articles are being updated, when they’re not.

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