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How to have some other characters in entry basename automatically written

2011-12-22T19:45:29Z

Hi there.

Movable type automatically fills the Basename field while writing the title of an entry. I want to know that how can I have some other characters to be written automatically while writing that character in the Title field. I think this capability is brought by a javascript file, but I don,t know how and where to edit.

Would you please help me?!

Publish a post using XMLRPC.

2011-12-21T05:09:18Z

Hi guys.
I'm trying to develop publishing post function using XMLRPC for my app.

I use "metaWeblog.newpost" method for post function.
The problem is this post function works well except server response.

I mean If the publishing was successfully finished then I'm supposed to be get post_id from server. But I got some faultString like following.
"Can't call method \"label\" on an undefined value at lib/MT/Entry.pm line 968.\n"

So I had searched with this strings to figure out what is wrong.
And I found one solution for this problem.

The guy who said figured out same issue shared this information.

have to edit /lib/MT/Entry.pm
Below codes
my @ cats = sort {$ a -> label cmp $ b -> label} @ $ cats

my @ cats;
eval ( 'my @ cats = sort {$ a -> labelstrong> C MP $ b -> label} @ $ cats ');

But It couldn't resolve my problem.

Anyone knows what is wrong?

openDialog undefined in 5.12 MTOS

2011-09-04T19:23:34Z

Hi!

I got a little problem while testing a old plugin for MT4 inside MT5 (mt-plugin-configassistant): the openDialog function is undefined.

I found that quite weird since the MTOS developer documentation, in the section "Spawning a Dialog", tells about that function.

Is the documentation outdated and the function changed his name? Inspecting mt.js do not clarified the matter to me, i still failed to find a suitable replacement for it.

entry_category_id includes NULL results instead of integer

2011-04-03T08:10:15Z

Hi.
I'm trying to use a mysql query for showing some entries related to a category. First, I've sent the category_id using a form and get method in a file named compare.php !!!
In a new file named step2.php, I wanted to show the names of all the entries related to chosen category.
So, the code I have used, is this :

$category = (int)$_GET['category_id'];

$query = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM mt_entry where `entry_category_id`=$category")or die(mysql_error());

Unfortunately, there is no Category ID in entry_category_id and all of results are NULL !
Can somebody help me to write this query ?! I would really appreciate it.

MT 5 dynamic publishing issues

2011-04-02T21:14:36Z

I recently tried to enable dynamic publishing for my archive pages. I use nearlyfreespeech.net as my host, and the publishing path there differs from the "work" path that must be used for dynamic php generation. (The regular publishing path, which works fine in all the perl scripts, is /home/public. The path needed for PHP scripts is /f2/sitename/public.)

I tried hacking a little in lib/MT/CMS/Blog.pm and managed to get past the open_basedir mischief, but now I just have a helpfully obtuse error page, styled nicely using my blog's design:

"Page Not Found

An error occurs."

Clearly I have missed something. I have no idea how mt.php generates these pages, and investigating is getting me a lot deeper into this than I was hoping. Any help from experienced MT coders would be appreciated.

Step by step how to install MT on localhost

2010-10-11T07:31:16Z

Hi. I like to test movable type on localhost.Does anybody can like to help me with instalation on xampp and windows xp sp3.I tryed but,,,,

Restore from backup fails silently

2010-07-21T21:51:35Z

I'm following the instructions to migrate to mysql from Pg I found here - http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/mt5/database/migrate-sqlite-postgresql.html

The backup works fine, but when I go to restore, nothing happens. Basically, the mt.cgi script runs on my server for a few seconds, and then exits. I can't find any errors in the Apache logs, and I'm not sure where else to look.

Is there any good way to debug this? Or maybe there's a way to run the restore from the command line?

Problems with permalinks

2010-07-20T22:31:12Z

Hello everyone, I'm new using Movable Type and I have a problem.

I import my WordPress post to Movable Type and all went well, but seeing the changes in my site I see that this is the type url angellonline.com#postid (you can visit site
) and clicking on them go to the page file per month, but do not allow access to the post, the truth is that I am concerned that not to do to change this, believe they can help me.

Sorry for my English, I'm using an automatic translator

Need some Advise

2010-06-14T13:40:52Z

Please - I'm struggling with this choice ad need some insight from someone who might understand the difficulty I am having choosing the right CMS

We design/ develop custom small business websites and need to decide on ONE CMS platform to adopt and use for all our sites. We've used Joomla/ Drupal/ Wordpress / Concrete5 / ... We need to choose one that works for us and stick with it.

1. An easy to configure and understand Admin site (most of our customers are tech- challenged) Must be intuitive, easy to add and edit

2. LOTS of tools/plug-ins etc for integrations - We do lots of Mashups (Facebook/Twitter/Google Picasa and maps Video,, etc ...

3. Our developer is a LAMP guy -- php/jscript/html/css/ will he liek working with MT

4. Great SEO support

5. Quick to adopt new internet trends and standards

thx
Mike

MTOS 4.33 - Perfect storm of MySQL backup/restore suck. Who likes a challenge?

2010-06-13T04:28:35Z

MTOS 4.33
I have a very large MySQL database, with almost 10 years of entries (1400 or so).
The ultimate goal is to switch completely over to OpenMelody without any data loss (I'm aware that it's still beta, but I'll need to figure this out at some point anyway).

1. It's on a shared server, so the webserver times out early on if I try and Backup (file is only 100k, 2. MySQL dump of the db is 12.4 Mb, and phpmyadmin has a max import size of 10,240KB
3. My host doesn't allow telnet, which otherwise could be used for importing larger MySQL databases.

I'm a bit of a MySQL n00b, but I think I've researched this pretty thoroughly, and now I'm asking for help.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.

"Improved" mt-tmpl-preview

2010-05-13T20:05:50Z

For some reason mt-tmpl-preview module stubs out the WARN method, which it later on actually uses (on error). I also added a proper exit code, and fixed a "perl -w" error. Error messages are now displayed if the template cannot be compiled.

This is a handy utility for us noobs.

How do I go about submitting these changes?

How to export MT 4.23 Data

2010-05-13T17:28:40Z

I have a MT 4.23-wn version and i'd like to export some data to external system.

Do you have an API or do i need to connect to mySQL directly and pull the information.

Scheduled & Unpublished Entry Template Tag

2010-04-15T21:25:12Z

I'm trying to access the tags of entries.
The following will give me the tags of all published entries, completely skipping over scheduled and unpublished entries.





<$mt:TagName$>

It looks like MT doesn't treat scheduled/unpublished entries as Entries.. It's ID doesn't get listed when I do


<$mt:EntryID>

However it will get listed if I just do

<$mt:var name="id"$>

Is there someway to access the tags of an unpublished or scheduled entry? A plugin or a mystery tag? Or am I going to have to write a plugin to do this?

Publish Queue Error - MT::TheSchwartz Issue

2010-04-02T07:23:44Z

here is the thing,
when I run /path/to/run-periodic-tasks I get this error:

Can't locate MT/TheSchwartz.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib ../lib extlib ../extlib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /path/to/run-periodic-tasks line 32.

I've check these:
-permisson is set to 755
-CPAN confirms TheSchwartz-1.10 is installed

I'm runnin MT 4.33 under centos-5-i386

I truly appreciate your help

Multiple sign-in required with htaccess password protected directories

2010-03-12T23:10:28Z

Hi,

I have my MT blog in a htaccess password protected directory within a larger site. I get a password prompt when I get to the blog, then I get another password prompt when I go to an entry page. The entry is in a year/month subdirectory

Any idea how to get rid of these subsequent password prompts?

URL looks like this
https://.../blog/2010/03/my-entry.html

Running Movable Type Pro version 4.32-en

-paul