trackback
Update: I’m afraid that although I removed the url to ping from Phil, it still pinged. I must have done something wrong. Sorry Phil for this absolutely uninteresting post !
Testing the trackback concept. So far I haven’t figured it out yet. I’m working with the Category trackback plugin and when I’m on pages from other bloggers, it seems to work well. But when I want to trackback one of my own categories, I get an error when posting it:
MT::App::CMS=HASH(0×837ccf4) Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /…/ www/ …/ web/ blog.morgaine-lefaye.net/ cgi-bin/ lib/ MT/ Util.pm line 580.
When I look at the URLs to Ping in MT, I see two URLs to ping, the one for the page I linked to about the plugin and one to the post I was commenting on (for testing purposes) in my own blog. Think I’d better remove the first to ping 
Furthermore, I pinged in an earlier attempt and deleted the post after I published it. The trackback remains though. And when I open the trackback window and open the link to that (deleted) post, it still seems to be there…
This indicates clearly I’m far from being a geek I suppose…
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May 8th, 2003 | 
Some people seem to be able to implement all the latest nice features without encountering (major) problems. I’m clearly not one of those persons…
Friends of mine tell me to keep in mind I only started using Movable Type a couple of days ago, didn’t know a thing about PHP and did really well in being able to install the thing by myself.
But I want those smilies, I want visitors to be able to skin the site, I want to get in the trackback concept, I want… well, guess I want too much too fast.
Thanks for your understanding Phil. I’m afraid I’m far from understanding the trackback concept. I understand pinging a single post, I understand how this ‘pinging a category’ should work but it’s not working for me yet.
It pinged http://www.blog.morgaine-lefaye.net/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/2and it seems this is the individual entry.
I added the <$MTCategoryTrackbackData$> tag to the category archive template as you said.
I guess I should add this tag somewhere on the main index template as well, just adding it gives errors about not using the proper context but hé, I’m a complete nitwit.
When I go to a category and look into the source code, I clearly see it ads information. Guess I should insert something somewhere but what & where? Beats me.
For the moment I try to be happy about having managed NOT to use the standard MT templates
Count yourself lucky – as an alpha geek, i have to KNOW how those damn smilies work . . .
Sue, you got it easy.
Oh ! How I admire people who can actually do this on their own !
I simply paid the piper, so to say…
Zero geek quota here.. Although I did somehow manage a CSS, sortof, kindof, maybe..
Bravo * clap* *clap*
And, uhm, that should be <MTEntries> and <MTCatgories> tags . . .
Forgot to convert the left thingie to html special characters . . .
Just a thought after a quick run through of phils code, and it would appear that the <MTCategoryTrackbackData> is most definitely returning ” in this instance. Now i don’t claim to (a) Be phil, or (b) be a perlmonger (my forté being php), but i’d check the aforementioned posistioning of this tag, and then uhm, well, i don’t konw.
I’m enough of a code-monger to grok the meaning of the script, but not enough of a perl-monger to be able to backtrack the error.
Uhm, sorry, I’m gonna go watch some X-Men cartoons now, just because i can, and because i’d probably end up IM’ing you all night trying to fix it if i stayed thinking about htis too long :|
It’s definitely outside any And tags?
Admittedly, I’m not sure on the second one, but hey, you managed to summon the Ringnalda ™, and that’s impressively geeky enough!
All my posturing about the deeper meaning of TrackBack aside, I’m just playing around with toys and looking for other people playing with their toys and mine. So don’t sweat the odd accidental ping.
My offhand memory of line 580 is that it’s the error you get when you ping a URL that returns something other than an XML-RPC response. Is it picking up the TrackBack URL for the category, or the HTML URL?