Comment page not working after upgrade

By Bob Ransom on Mar 19, 2009 at 8:19 PM 4 Vote 0 Votes

Hi,

This is the code I used to pop-up my comment page but since upgrading from 3.3x to 4.2x it no longer works. (Window pops open but returns "invalid entry" error.)


<MTEntryIfAllowComments>
<a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>?entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false"> info & comments <$MTEntryCommentCount$></a>
</MTEntryIfAllowComments>

Can someone tell me what might have changed in the upgrade that would break this?

Thanks,

Bob

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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Mike T | March 20, 2009 8:58 AM | Reply

Can someone tell me what might have changed in the upgrade that would break this?

The comment script was changed. If you look at the version 4 templates, they no longer do popups because the mode you need to do what you're doing was removed to make things simpler.
Bob Ransom | March 20, 2009 9:08 AM | Reply

Thanks for the answer, Mike. Do you (or does anyone) know an easy work-around so that I don't have to redesign the main pages to show comments?

Right now I'm wishing I'd skipped the update.
Mike T | March 20, 2009 9:46 AM | Reply

If you find a link that has a JavaScript launcher for the popup, change the link to <a href="<mt:EntryPermalink/>#comments">
Cory W. | April 21, 2009 9:37 PM | Reply
Hi Mike/Bob - I'm having the same trouble: whenever someone submits a comment they meet the following message - "Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Invalid request".

I looked for a JS launcher in the comments template but could only find:
```
<script type="text/javascript">

    

    </script>
```
Removing it didn't help and there isn't a link to change to what Mike listed.

Any idea where I'd find that trouble spot or another reason I'd be getting this error? I started the blog with 4.24 and haven't edited the mt.js file. the Comments template hasn't been edited either other than adding some line breaks.

Thanks for the help!