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Paul Scrivens August 5, 2003 12:01 PM

Very, very nice work. Thanks Adam.

Ian Fenn August 5, 2003 1:30 PM

That’s great - thanks!

Phillip Harrington August 5, 2003 8:33 PM

You could also do a rewrite to make www.me.com go to me.com (or the other way around).

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^me.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://me.com/$1 [L,R]

Phillip Harrington August 5, 2003 8:34 PM

Which would take care of the me.com/www.me.com problem before it’s a problem. Sorry.

Phillip Harrington August 5, 2003 8:35 PM

Hey it’s working! This is fun! Now ya just gotta get rid of the jerks who post too much! :-)

Jesper August 7, 2003 3:14 PM

Phillip: Use .me.com as a host and it’d match anything.me.com or just me.com.

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August 7, 2003 10:32 PM
Movable Type Tweak for Comments Cookie
Excerpt: Adam Kalsey has posted a helpful tweak for Movable Type's Comments cookie to more consistently apply its ability to remember the user (if the user has selected the checkbox to be remembered, of course). Check out Adam's August 5th post, Remember Me, Mo...

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August 8, 2003 12:06 AM
Some fixes to make to the MT Comment system
Excerpt: http://kalsey.com/2003/08/remember_me_movable_type/...

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August 8, 2003 5:02 AM
Remember Me improvements for MovableType
Excerpt: Thanks to Brainstorms & Raves for this - Adam over at Measure Twice has come up with some fixes/improvements for MovableType’s ‘remember me’ functionality on the comments page. Would of spotted this myself but forgot to add Measur...

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August 12, 2003 10:47 AM
Fixing comment cookies in Movable Type
Excerpt: Adam Kalsey has an excellent article on fixing Movable Type's "remember me" mechanism. The JavaScript produced by Movable Type doesn't handle "remember me" cookies across different portions of a domain (www.site.com versus site.com)...

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August 19, 2003 5:52 PM
A fix for cookies in comments form
Excerpt: Remember Me, Movable Type :: Kalsey Consulting Group...

aroon December 9, 2003 10:36 PM

WOW. thank you so much, ive been trying to figure this out forEVER. just wondering about that last part though. [your comments seem to be different] on my comment template [stock] i already have these lines:

if (getCookie(“mtcmtauth”)) { document.commentsform.bakecookie[0].checked = true; } else { document.commentsform.bakecookie[1].checked = true; }

which is sufficient for making sure that radio button is already selected as to not confuse people.

thanks so much for the info!

aroon December 9, 2003 10:45 PM

unfortunately it didnt fix my problem =\

my comments refuse to even try to set cookies. i figured this out by using firebird and having it ask me anytime a website tried to set cookies. all my friends mt blogs set cookies fine. mine didnt even try.

i guess ill search even more for a fix. again, thnx for the info though, im sure it will help a bunch of poeple

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December 10, 2003 8:13 AM
Comments updated
Excerpt: After prompting from Alicia, I investigated the comments issue. MT sets the path on the cookie to the current directory. What this means is that if you are using permanent links, then the cookie will only remember you on an...

Slice Guy September 10, 2004 12:38 AM

What is the difference in “movable type” and “blogging”, I am wanting to add this functionality to my website? Thanks for helping out a webmaster newbie.

Adam Kalsey September 10, 2004 12:45 AM

Movable Type is a software product that is used to create blogs. If you were to apply your question to cars, you’d end up with “what’s the difference between Ford and Driving.”

Blogging is something you do and Movable Type is a product you can use to do it. Movable Type is aimed at people who are comfortable with installing and managing products on their Web servers. For everyone else, they have a product called TypePad. You can find out more about Movable Type and TypePad at http://movabletype.com/ and http://typepad.com/

Jorge Lesmes March 4, 2005 4:38 PM

Hello guys.

My remember me is not working. Ive done all you say here but nothing happened. Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

NataLie April 19, 2006 1:20 PM

0k.. h0w d0 this w0rk?? i’m c0nfused??

wholesale June 17, 2006 12:21 AM

Yeah Ive got same problem..think I need to use a different software, this is giveing me a headache

kwmccabe August 9, 2006 6:59 AM

Interesting that you don’t have the “Remember personal info?” checkbox on your own comment form.

It should be noted where these changes are to be made. - defaulttemplates/sitejavascript.tmpl, for instance, for new blogs - mt.cgi : Edit Template: Site JavaScript (i.e., in the database) for existing blogs


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