PHP SimpleComments

Tried it out and it seems to be working flawlessly, with more such ports MT’s dynamic/static engine can actually be chosen with the flick of a switch (more like a checkbox) which would be awesome!

Thanks for the link! I hope folks will find it useful.

Accessing the database directly is a horrible kludge, but unfortunately there seems to be no other way to directly access all comments and pings for the blog under the current PHP plugin API. What I was told at the MT developer’s forum is that they’re working on a fix, and when that’s released I’ll update PHP SimpleComments to use it (or rather, to check the version and use the good way instead of the evil way when it’s available).

On the other hand, as far as I can tell, there’s no way to use MT3 dynamic publishing with non-SQL databases, anyway—the entire API is built on top of the ezsql class.

Another limitation, which I just remembered this morning, and which I’ll note on the project page: due (again) to PHP API limitations, there is no way to use the moderate argument to show unmoderated comments. I’ll fix that sometime soon and and put up the fixed version. But it will take more evil database access. Oy gevalt.

N.B.: as promised, PHP SimpleComments is now available, and the moderate attribute is implemented, albeit at the cost of spreading evil. See the project page for details.

Brad Choate has also ported the plugin to PHP (apparently at the same time, he emailed me about it this morning) and has released the plugin under the same license as the Perl version (MIT). He’s allowing his PHP port to be distributed along with the original.

Thanks for the work; It was really what I needed