[pmwiki-users] foxblog question

Maria McKinley parody at u.washington.edu
Tue Nov 13 05:49:10 CST 2007


On 11/11/07, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> Sunday, November 11, 2007, 8:50:33 AM, Maria McKinley wrote:
>
> > I'm afraid I have one more question about the blog recipe. I got rid
> > of the comments counter on the Blog index, but I can't seem to figure
> > out how to get rid of it on the blog page. I have tried editing the
> > Site pages FoxBlogTemplate, FoxCommentBox, FoxCommentTemplate and
> > LocalTemplate, but I can't find anything to delete that gets rid of
> > the Comment counter and edit comment page link. Where else should I
> > look?
>
> you changed Site.FoxBlogTemplate, so any new pages created with
> NewBlogPage will not have this, but the pages you already got have the
> reference to $FoxPostCount in it. See
> http://www.shadlen.org/~maria/pmwiki/Blog/BloodyHell?action=source
> line 12:
> !!!!!Comments: {Comments.{$Group}-{$Name}$FoxPostCount}
>
> As far as I know, {$FoxPostCount} should work. It counts the
> occurrences of the string '#foxbegin' in the page, which is used in
> every comment posted. so you can change the above line to:
>
> !!!!!Comments: {{*$FullName}$FoxPostCount}
>
> You can try it on your blog page first, and if it works change it on
> Site.FoxBlogTemplate.
>
> What does not work with the newer fox.php is $FoxCount.
> And as you see from the source line quoted above (from the original
> FoxBlogTemplate) the comments were meant to go into a separate
> Comments group, on a page Group-PageName, ie.
> Comments.Blog-BloodyHell.
>
> As you set up the FoxCommentBox, it appends to the current page, rather
> than a target page in a Comments group. So you simplified this and
> have no need for the $FoxCount var. But try  {{*$FullName}$FoxPostCount}
> as a counter.
>
>
>   ~Hans
>
>

Whoopee! that works, thanks a bunch. I can't imagine I'll get many
readers, much less comments, so for now I am not worried about having
separate comment pages. ;-)

cheers,
maria



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