Comments for MTMacro

Comment from Brad on 2002-08-13

2002-08-13T08:32:14Z

Hi Brad

This may be a stoopid question, but where does one find the postproc.pm? It wasn't in the zip file and I've had a breif look at some of the other plugins you've made but can't seem to find it.

Or am I doing something obviously wrong?

Brad
http://rat-bag.net/blog

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Comment from Brad on 2002-08-13

2002-08-13T08:44:55Z

Cancel that...I'm just thick...found it :-)]]>

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-13

2002-08-13T08:45:24Z

Sorry-- the 'postproc' plugin (actually not a full plugin since it really doesn't do anything on it's own) was supposed to be in the distribution. I've updated the zip file to include it. You can find the postproc plugin separately within my 'Movable Type' category archive (click the 'Movable Type Tips' link at the top of the page to jump over to it).]]>

Comment from Brad on 2002-08-13

2002-08-13T08:55:36Z

Thanks Brad,

By the way, I posted a message at the MT Support forums, I'd like you to have a squiz at when you have a moment (don't want to double up and post it here too)

http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3d589e3b60ffffff;act=ST;f=20;t=6690;st=0

Brad

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Comment from glm on 2002-08-17

2002-08-17T09:33:54Z

this may be another stoopid question, but doesn't hooking Amazon into MT force you into the commercial for-profit clause of the MT license? Doesn't the MT license say something to the effect "if you make money off it, you have to pay the commercial license"...]]>

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-17

2002-08-17T15:44:01Z

Excellent question. Since my site uses it too, I asked Mena about this specifically. She said no-- a personal site using associate links to Amazon would not require a commercial Movable Type license-- unless you're "making $1000 a month" or something. I replied, "yeah right-- if that happens, I'll split it 50/50 with you!". Hopefully they'll clarify this point in their FAQ or license agreement.]]>

Comment from Jason Mevius on 2002-08-20

2002-08-21T03:36:08Z

I've almost finished implementing the MTMacro plugin to check for when MTAmazon returns no results.

I'm trying to search for the term:

and replace it with the sting

Not found at Amazon..

I can't figure out how to format the string attribute of MTMacroDefine to transform the <, >, and the " characters.

Any ideas? I'm so close to launch..

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Comment from Court Kizer on 2002-08-23

2002-08-23T10:25:37Z

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I've been working with this macro for about 3 hours now, and can NOT get the #### thing to work. I'm sure it's probably something stupid i did.

Here's what i decided to test:

[img]/images/smiley1.gif[/img]

I PLACED the code about right after my first body tag in index.html template

Then around the code in index.html template that renders the weblog entries i placed

SO i have like this:

*BODY

[img]/images/smiley1.gif[/img]

*WEBLOG ENTRY CODE

The only thing that happens is up to where mtmacrodefine is, a smiley loads. What the #### am I doing wrong? I read over the documents over and over, but i can't find a example of where to put the code. :(

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-23

2002-08-23T16:11:09Z

The MacroDefine tags can be placed anywhere you'd like in your template, as long as it is ABOVE the MacroApply tag. Tags are processed in order, so if you use the apply tag before the macros are defined, it won't do anything...

It sounds as if you either haven't installed the plugin right or you're not using Movable Type 2.21. And I hope that instead of [img], you're really writing or something to that effect...

Also, you may have just had a typo, but you close the with ...

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Comment from Quadsk8 on 2002-08-23

2002-08-23T17:14:44Z

Brad

That works beautifully! Impressive programming.
I used your macro locallink/offsitelink and seen how DiveIntoMark even put an IMG inside.

But I cannot figure out myself following (even more difficult) macro.

My outside links are counted by countlink.cgi which resides on my domain:
http://www.groovycompany.nl/linktnaar/countlink.cgi?www.bradchoate.com/

Could I auto-macro-cally replace the normal http://outside-> link with http://countlink.cgi?outside->

And can this Macrocontent change be done with the same macro changing the style of the ctags?

Hope I made this question clear, maybe you can point me in the right direction?

Thanks and have a nice weekend!
Lawrence

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-23

2002-08-23T17:54:54Z

This should do it-- basically this will rewrite the href attribute, tacking on your CGI to the front. The original URL is added to the end and URL encoded. Your CGI will need to URL decode the link and add the 'http://' back to the URL:

Collapse that all back to one line to avoid extra spaces in the resulting HTML.

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Comment from Quadsk8 on 2002-08-24

2002-08-24T18:28:35Z

Thanks Brad,

You helped a lot and I got it working perfectly. For anyone who would like to see the final working macro I made a partly english post about it on my Blog: http://www.groovycompany.nl/Blog/Archives/000139.php#more

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Comment from Tina on 2002-08-24

2002-08-25T02:39:04Z

This is just a stupidly silly question, I'm sure the answer is staring me in the face and I'm pretty embarassed to even have to ask it - where exactly do you create the macros?! Is there a form filled in that takes care of it all, do you put all the code in a seperate file and include that, or stick it between the head tags?! I've not been blessed with a particularly technological (or sensical) mind, help!]]>

Comment from Brian on 2002-09-06

2002-09-06T23:23:53Z

*sigh* I'm having some difficulty getting MTMacros to work. I'm using MT 2.21 with apache-1.3.23-14, perl-5.6.1-34.99.6, and mod_perl-1.26-5 on RedHat 7.3. I've got MT running with mod_perl, FWIW.

The problem I'm having is that MTMacros seems to die when processing the macro definitions. If I define a macro as
bar baz bap

directly in the template, when the template is rendered, I end up with
bar baz bap

It looks like something's dying when processing the tag. Can someone help?

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-09-06

2002-09-07T05:27:20Z

With mod_perl, you have to specifically add the 'mt/extlib' directory to Perl's include path. The way I did it on my server is to add a line like this:

PerlRequire /path/to/startup.pl

in the httpd.conf file. That Perl script includes a line like this:

use lib qw(/path/to/mt/extlib /path/to/mt/lib);

With that in place, the required files under the 'extlib' directory should be visible to mod_perl.

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Comment from Kurt on 2002-09-07

2002-09-07T18:32:19Z

Well, I'm with Tina above...can't quite make head or tails with this one. I'm sure (eventually) I can figure out how to create my own macros, but just using Mark's (http://diveintomark.org/inc/macros) for now, I still can't even get that far!

Uploaded install files as said, created a "bradchoate" sub-directory within /extlib/, and even 755'ed the "macros.pl" file for good measure though it isn't specified I need to do that (didn't mess with chmod permissions on the other two files).

Took Mark's complete macros file and created a template module with it, and then referenced that module with the tag from Mark's post (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/15.html#better_living_through_regular_expressions)
at the top of my index.html and individual entry templates. rebuilt (fine). then created test post with a bunch of acronyms, published, but no acronym tool tips on live (test) site.

From a thread at MT's Support Forum, there's an implication that I need to specify a path in my mt.cfg file, but I looked at that file and there doesn't seem to be any obvious place (like "plugins") where I would do so.

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Comment from Kurt on 2002-09-07

2002-09-07T19:00:46Z

Well, it never fails, 5 minutes after you hit the Post button, you figure it out....I did't see that bit about the ApplyMacro tag....works fine. Now, if I can only wade through the rest of the gobbledygook upstairs and write some of my own...I mean Mark's acronyms are great, but I don't find myself typing API very often...]]>

Comment from girlie on 2002-09-07

2002-09-08T03:57:52Z

I posted this over at the forum but thought I'd add it here as well (with less description). I'm getting this error message:

Can't declare undef operator in my at extlib/bradchoate/macros.pm line 34, near ") ="

Boohoo!!

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Comment from Charles on 2002-10-07

2002-10-08T01:10:36Z

Hello,

I was able to successfully install and run MT, but I can't make this plug-in work. My new installation had no "plugins" or "extlib" directory, so I made them, and put the files in the proper places. I did a very simple search/replace macro, but it doesn't work.

I'm sure the problem is that I'm missing a newbie step, but it feels like the instructions may be missing something.

-- Charles Wiltgen

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Comment from TeledyN on 2002-10-10

2002-10-10T22:02:35Z

This is weird: Can anyone tell me why this macro won't compile -- the error I get is that

MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x8066e58) Argument "[MTMacroAttr name='lastn' default='3']" isn't numeric

which means it doesn't expand that one MTMacroAttr call ... but why doesn't it?

here's the macro:

\' border=\'0\' hspace=\'5\' />	">

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Comment from TeledyN on 2002-10-10

2002-10-10T23:07:35Z

further to my last post ... I removed those backslashes, but it still will not resolve those [MTMacroAttr name='search'] strings; they are passed to the amazon plugin verbatim. What did I forget?]]>

Comment from Adam Kalsey on 2002-10-10

2002-10-10T23:14:38Z

In general, you won't be able to use expressions or MT tags in tag attributes. Some plugins can handle attribute values of [MTTagName] because they were written to convert those values to the actual content before the plugin does it's stuff.

This techinique first appeared in MTAmazon thanks to an idea and some sample code from Brad. MTAmazon was designed to allow MT expressions like [MTTagName] in the search attribute, but it doesn't support them as values for any other attribute.

The plugin is actually not expanding any of the macros in the attributes (except for in "search"). The reason you get an error on the lastn attribute but don't get one on the others is that lastn requires the value be a number. The other attributes don't, so when they get [MTMacroAttr ...] as a value, they accept it and move on. The lastn attribute sees that and dies because it's not a number.

If you were to remove the lastn attribute from the template, you'd stop getting the errors, but you'd never get any content back from Amazon. That's because they wouldn't understand a search method [MTMacroAttr name='method' default='Keyword'].

This whole thing has gotten me thinking, though. All my plugins should support MT tags as values to all attributes.

The next version of MTAmazon is under development to support the new releases of MT 2.5 and Amazon Web services 2.0. I'll make sure that it also allows all attributes to contain MT tags.

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Comment from Shawn Yeager on 2002-10-12

2002-10-13T01:14:02Z

Hi, Brad. First, thanks for all the great contributions. I've just dug into MTMacros, following Mark Pilgrim's lead on using it to create hovers for acronyms. I've run into a challenge I can't seem to lick. That is, how to deal with acronyms that appear within an HREF. If I use the 'no_html' attribute, then I'll disable the intended affect. However, on the rare occasion that a URL contains a string that matches one of my acronymns, it corrupts the URL.

For example, having defined MTMacroDefine's to cover "IP" and "DMCA," the following URL gets fudged:

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20021003_eff_pr.html

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-10-12

2002-10-13T01:28:34Z

Shawn: But that was the very reason why I added the 'no_html' option. Have you tried it? It will prevent string and pattern macros from altering any HTML tags (and their attributes naturally), like the 'A' tag.]]>

Comment from Shawn Yeager on 2002-10-12

2002-10-13T02:45:33Z

Thanks for the reply, Brad. I misunderstood and thought it would prevent alteration of text BETWEEN tags, not within tags. I'll go back again.]]>

Comment from Shawn on 2002-10-19

2002-10-20T06:18:55Z

Hi, Brad. Per the examples given by Mark Pilgrim, I'm using MTMacros and MTRegex to do acronym hover-over expansion. I'm using MTInclude's at the very top of each of my templates. The question is this: I now end up with a number of blank lines in the resulting HTML -- I assume after the macros have been processed. It's cosmestic only and not, of course, a functional problem. But I'm wondering if there's a switch or other method to have these blank lines "consumed" rather than left in the final HTML.

You could look at the source of http://algorhythm.org/ as an example.

Thanks

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Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-10-19

2002-10-20T06:25:41Z

That's easy-- just delete any new-line or space characters inbetween Movable Type tags. If you do that, that should remove any empty lines you're seeing.]]>

Comment from Harry on 2002-12-19

2002-12-20T03:58:37Z

What a nice macro, and how bad I got no idea of how patterns work. Is it possible to write a rule that

- replaces ampersands in URLs only with &

or that

- replaces all ampersands with & but does not convert the ampersand in > ?

Your (or another readers) help would be so much appreciated.

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Comment from David Whip on 2002-12-30

2002-12-31T00:57:29Z

I'm having a bit of a problem with a pattern in MTMacros. Its documented at http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e10b1ee5f2affff;act=ST;f=20;t=12213

I'd appreciate it if you could take a look when you get a chance.

Thanks

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Comment from David on 2002-12-31

2003-01-01T01:24:15Z

Brad

Thanks for looking at my problem. the major issue turned out to be ... d'oh ... I thought that I had put a MTInclude tag in my Index ... but I hadn't. Everything is working fine now.

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-03

2003-01-03T17:54:35Z

Hi Brad - thank you for your excellent plugins. I am using MTAmazon, and it is working because I can get the wishlist to work. However, your complex amazon search macro with overLIB showing the picture, is not. When I rebuild, I get -

MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x8331398) Use of uninitialized value in length at /virtual/rcogley/public_html/mt/extlib/bradchoate/macros.pm line 79.
MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x8331398) Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /virtual/rcogley/public_html/mt/extlib/bradchoate/macros.pm line 81.

Could you possibly give me an idea of where to start looking?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards
Rick

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-03

2003-01-03T18:54:05Z

By the way, I am calling a template module with the macros in it, and that is where I pasted the long code example you have above, replacing the developer id and associate id.

Here is the URL of the template I am calling.
http://www.cogley.info/mt/tmpl/rc-macros.tmpl

It is working for the acronym expansion, fwiw.

Is there a rule as to where to put the code?

Kind regards, and your help is much appreciated.
RIck

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-03

2003-01-04T03:34:55Z

Thank you Brad for your mail about replacing the double-byte chars with ' marks. THat did the trick on the rebuild errors. Duh. I wondered what the funny marks in the macro were...

However, even with the overlib script added at the top of the main index template, I cannot seem to get your amazon macro to work, trying the "tangerine dream" example. What I am seeing is -

I�m also interested in .

... with a blank where the overlib hyperlink text should be.

Would you kindly take a look at this, on http://rick.cogley.info/eblog ?

Thanks so much.

Kind regards
Rick

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-03

2003-01-04T03:35:26Z

Thank you Brad for your mail about replacing the double-byte chars with ' marks. THat did the trick on the rebuild errors. Duh. I wondered what the funny marks in the macro were...

However, even with the overlib script added at the top of the main index template, I cannot seem to get your amazon macro to work, trying the "tangerine dream" example. What I am seeing is -

I�m also interested in .

... with a blank where the overlib hyperlink text should be.

Would you kindly take a look at this, on http://rick.cogley.info/eblog ?

Thanks so much.

Kind regards
Rick

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Comment from Norm on 2003-01-03

2003-01-04T06:36:24Z

Hi Brad,

I'm having the same problem Court Kizer was having back in August. Smilies visible at the MTMacroDefine...

I think I have all my paths setup OK and no spelling errors.

Any suggestions?

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-04

2003-01-04T14:20:50Z

Brad -

As a follow on to this, I discovered some interesting things. Perhaps it would help others, so I will post here.

>> I still have the trouble with your demo macro, though, and I'd really appreciate your help on that.

I'm using the latest versions of MT and MTAmazon, but I was having a problem getting any MTAmazon template code to come up in posts. The MTAmazon code was working on the sides of the blog, but not in the posts.

On the MT forum, I found out I needed processtags and mtpostproc to fix this problem of in-post tags not working. So, I found them and did the installs.

However, when I ftp'ed processtags.pl to the plugins directory, and chmod'ed it to 755, right afterwards I uploaded my index template with the process_tags="1" added to the MTEntryBody tag. Then when I rebuilt the site, the rebuild process hung, and I got a 500 error when loading mt.cgi.

I decided to reverse what I had just done, and sure enough, when I delete processtags.pl, mt.cgi loads just fine.

After some more sleuthing, somewhere on the MT forum, someone mentioned adding this -

# use bradchoate::postproc;
if (MT->VERSION =~ m/^2\.2/) {
require bradchoate::postproc;
}

to processtags.pl, and it seems to have solved the problem of mt.cgi hanging. Now I can see the results from the MTAmazon tags in my posts.

However, I don't really understand why it worked. Can you perhaps explain? Maybe it's not really fixed or maybe it's something that will help you add code that will fix this problem I seem to have stumbled on.

Thanks and kind regards,
Rick Cogley
rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp

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Comment from Rick Cogley on 2003-01-04

2003-01-04T14:23:36Z

Brad,

I seem to have fixed my problem of MTAmazon not displaying tags, but I still have problems with your macro not working.

The way I fixed the MTAmazon in-post tags problem, was to add processtags.pl. However, it caused mt.cgi to crash, and after some searching, somewhere on the MT forum, someone mentioned adding this -

# use bradchoate::postproc;
if (MT->VERSION =~ m/^2\.2/) {
require bradchoate::postproc;
}

to processtags.pl, and this seems to have solved the problem. Now I can see the results from the MTAmazon tags in my posts.

However, I don't really understand why it worked. Can you possibly explain? Maybe it's not really fixed.

Kind regards
Rick Cogley
rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp

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Comment from Tom on 2003-01-27

2003-01-27T19:28:07Z

I installed the MTMacro plugin in my template and it works like a dream, my plan was to use the implementation to automate the entry of text for the Geourl plugin for MT. Unfortunately both plugins run when the entry is rebuilt and it seems that the geourl plugin is dependent on text being in the post prior to the rebuild. My implementation plan was to use the macro plugin to add the [[[lat]]] [[[long]]] text based on my location at the time of the post and have the geoulr plugin read that data. The dependency has got me stumped. Anyone have any ideas? Details about the Geourl plugin can be found at geourl.org]]>

Comment from Alyssa on 2003-03-05

2003-03-05T19:14:41Z

I installed MTMacros and set it up to handle emoticons/smilies... and get this error:

"Building entry 'something' failed: Build error in template 'Individual Entry Archive': Error in tag: You did not specify the type of macro."

What am I doing wrong?? Do I have to specify a macro type in some way not covered in your documentation?? I've put all the macro definitions in a module, called Emoticons, and call it with the tag in my templates. Each macro definition looks like this:

Help!!

Thanks,
Alyssa

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Comment from Alyssa on 2003-03-05

2003-03-05T19:17:12Z

Eek... the code didn't show up... I'll try again:

In the error, I'm getting an error in the tag:

I'm calling the Emoticons module with this tag:

Each macro definition looks like this:

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Comment from Alyssa on 2003-03-05

2003-03-05T19:18:23Z

Okay, I can't get it to show up... but I'd be incredibly grateful if you could email me or something and help me get this fixed!! Thanks!]]>

Comment from Rizwan on 2003-03-19

2003-03-19T11:42:01Z

Helpage!

I toss

height="12" width="12"
alt="red_mana" />

into my index php.

and in a blog i put !R

... and it doesnt replace.

I used the Amazon script that was recommended and it still didnt replace.

Where are we to put the macro tags?

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Comment from Rizwan on 2003-03-19

2003-03-19T11:48:28Z

Gah, it was macroapply

Next question, I get
"Build error in template 'Main Index': Error in tag: Error in tag: Error building macro tag amazon: Error in tag: You used without a search string.
"
when using your sample amazon script (with my affil code and dev code) and the sample html included... any idea why?

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Comment from Rizwan on 2003-03-19

2003-03-19T11:52:22Z

I�m also interested in (open)amazon keyword=�tangerine dream�(close)some TD music(open)/amazon(close) results in

Build error in template 'Main Index': Error in tag: Error in tag: Error building macro tag amazon: Error in tag: You used without a search string.

followed by a string of
MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x173dda0) Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\domains\GROUPN~1\users\rizwank\PUBLIC~1\GEEKYM~1\blogcgi\extlib/bradchoate/macros.pm line 116.

Help please!

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Comment from Fil on 2003-03-30

2003-03-30T21:39:07Z

Rizwan,
I too am getting that error. I stripped down the code and made it work without the "overlib" references.










" title="Buy now at amazon.com-- only !" " align="left" border="0" hspace="5" />




Amazon Price: ">








" title="Buy now at amazon.com-- only !" " align="left" border="0" hspace="5" />
Amazon Price: ">

You might give that a try, but I'd like it to work the way Brad has it on his documentation page.

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Comment from Fil on 2003-03-30

2003-03-30T21:40:45Z

Whoops, NM.
Brad filters out the "code" html tags so you cant see all the code.
Email me and I'll help you out with that.]]>

Comment from Gert on 2003-04-17

2003-04-17T13:09:46Z

Hi!

I'm trying for quite some time now to change the img-tags in my archivefiles into url-tags (to cut back on traffic).

See here for an example: http://cooliosbabes.flabber.nl/templates/example.txt

I can't seem te get the right expression to use for MTMacroDefine.

Can somebody please help me?

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Comment from Jason on 2003-04-23

2003-04-23T21:51:40Z

I've been pulling my hair out the last couple of hours trying to get this to work for the sample Amazon macro (which I modified for my devtoken and associate id of course). I kept getting an error when rebuilding, related to my amazon macro.

I finally tracked it down to the MTIfNotEmpty tag. You must have the IfEmpty plugin installed to use these tags.

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Comment from sabrina on 2003-04-23

2003-04-24T05:39:03Z

Whoa. I got this working in like five minutes, including the time to scp the zipfile to my hosting provider. Seriously, this is beautiful, exactly what I was looking for.

Rizwan, I got one of those errors with my first attempt at expanding a macro and I traced it back to the regex I'd supplied -- I had a typo and also forgot the trailing / mark. Maybe you did something similar?

cheers,
--sabrina :)

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Comment from Michelle on 2003-05-19

2003-05-20T01:46:16Z

I've installed MTAmazon and MTMacros successfully, but I'm having a problem with the Amazon macro. Some of the results returned have apostrophes, which causes overlib to choke. Any ideas on how to fix this would be welcome.

Thanks for the great plugins! When it does work the results look great!

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Comment from Amit [Netahoy] Agarwal on 2003-06-02

2003-06-02T22:33:18Z

HiBC,
I need yr help. Its very simple.. I can't seem to make ne of the plugins work. The HTML output just shows a last half of the Tag
Eg
Adding this on the template

and

On rebuilding the file the html source shows

I am using W2k, Apache 1.3.26, Perl 5.006, Mod_perl 1.25

I posted on MT Forums here
http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=21068&s=49b5b8453bbd0c63186595323a5e1b96
but haven't found ne volunteer yet. Kindly help.

I tried the Mod perl tip u mentioned above bu it too is giving errors
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[Tue Jun 03 01:10:24 2003] [error] c:\mt-modperl.pl did not return a true v
at (eval 4) line 1.

Syntax error on line 1070 of /usr/conf/httpd-php423.conf:
c:\mt-modperl.pl did not return a true value at (eval 4) line 1.

Note the errors or messages above, and press the key to exit. 26...
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I tried changing every type of paths both relative and other... but always see this eror on starting Apache

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Comment from Amit [Netahoy] Agarwal on 2003-06-02

2003-06-02T22:45:03Z

Adding this on the template

[BracketsS]MTMacroDefine name="smile" string=":)"[BracketsC] [BracketsS]img src="smile.gif" alt="smile"[BracketsC] [BracketsS]/MTMacroDefine[BracketsC]
and
[BracketsS]$MTEntryBody apply_macros="1"$[BracketsC]

On rebuilding the file the html source shows

[BracketsS]img src="smile.gif" alt="smile"[BracketsC] [BracketsS]/MTMacroDefine[BracketsC]

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Comment from tarun on 2003-07-28

2003-07-28T08:17:46Z

One thing I noticed with you amazon example is that if I want to collect links via the Collect plugin, those that are created by the Macro are not collected, any thoughts on why...]]>

Comment from Lacy on 2003-08-19

2003-08-20T00:02:29Z

Hi Brad! I've utilized several of your plugins on my site and they work like a charm! My fav is the MT Macro one, which allows me to autolink/auto tag frequently used text and images.

I've implemented MTAmazon in a sideblog using the overlib javascript as well -- and it works great. (see http://www.silverberry.org) However, I'm trying to implement the Amazon linking you've described in this post on MT Macro and cannot get it to work. I've created a blog for testing purposes -- and here's what I'm ending up with. I'm not quite sure what the problem is. I have the apply macros and process tags within the MTEntry Body tag -- but it still won't process it into the overlib. I've worked on it for several days now and can't seem to make any progress. Any thoughts??

You can see the test site for this code at http://www.silverberry.org/StaticPages/amazonmacro.php

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Comment from Lacy on 2003-08-19

2003-08-20T00:02:29Z

Hi Brad! I've utilized several of your plugins on my site and they work like a charm! My fav is the MT Macro one, which allows me to autolink/auto tag frequently used text and images.

You can see the test site for this code at http://www.silverberry.org/StaticPages/amazonmacro.php

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Comment from Sarah on 2003-09-28

2003-09-29T02:17:32Z

Hi, I'm trying to get the Macro to work with smilies, and I'm really struggling. I keep getting this error:

Building entry 'BLANK' failed: Build error in template 'Individual Entry Archive': Error in tag: You did not specify a name for your macro.

I'm not sure what the "You did not specify a name for your macro." means. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Comment from T-Square on 2003-10-01

2003-10-01T18:32:41Z

I am trying to implement this for the MTAmazon functunality. It is working...kind of.

It only searches books. I put in type="dvd" and it still only searches books.

Any idea what I am doing wrong.

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Comment from T-Square on 2003-10-01

2003-10-02T03:25:34Z

Scratch that...five minutes after I posted I found the problem.

Now I have another issue. Since adding this in I am getting funky characters on my entries

(example) Read More » (/example)

Any ideas?

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MT Plugins

2002-08-13T08:27:44Z

Brad Choate has been a busy little beaver lately, creating new plugins for MT left right and centre! I've got some of his working and this post is basically testing a new one he's come up with called MTMarcro. If

MT Macro Plugin

2002-08-14T19:45:36Z

Brad Choate ver�ffentlicht MT-Plugins am laufenden Band. So langsam wird es richtig ausgeflippt: MTMacro stattet MT mit einer Makrofunktionalit�t aus, die kaum noch zu �berblicken ist. Everything is possible. Hier werde ich erstmal ganz einfach anfange...

MT Macros, baby.

2002-08-16T01:23:56Z

MT Macros, baby. MT Macros. Quem l� o

MT Macros

2002-08-16T06:17:51Z

Brads done it again with MTMacro. This is some great stuff, i'll have to set it up this weekend. If got some ideas all ready. Looks like marks already putting

igottadonewtechiestufftostaysane

2002-08-16T07:36:13Z

[brad choate dot com] MTMacro note to self: check this macro stuff out. and this one too

Clever stuff:

2002-08-16T14:59:10Z

Movable Type Macros.

MT Macros

2002-08-25T02:28:40Z

Found this new-fangled gadget - MTMacros. Looks very cool indeed so far, except for one thing. As we all know

Movable Type macros for Everything2

2002-08-26T01:59:33Z

Back in the (good/bad...proabably bad) old days when the sunpig site was running on some scraps of PHP code I'd

Wonder how to add

2002-09-04T21:34:43Z

Wonder how to add a new entry. With that resolved, I'm testing a new plugin for MT called Adminimizer

Ahhhh

2002-09-09T06:02:07Z

... it's time to relax, and you know what that means ...

MTMacro installed

2002-09-29T20:16:16Z

Brad Choate's extremely powerful macro kit. This should be fun!

Installed MTMacro As Well

2002-10-09T23:57:00Z

I've also gone and installed MTMacro. Though I did have some trouble with it initially, in the end, I discovered

Welcome to the New CeeJayOz.com

2002-10-10T05:38:53Z

Welcome, folks, to the new CeeJayOz.com! :-D The site is now a "weblog" - a place for me to post

MTMacro Improved (Slightly)

2002-10-11T03:23:42Z

Because of how I wanted to use MTMacro (so far at least), I decided to add a fouth type of

MTMacros Plugin

2002-10-21T20:14:57Z

He traducido al castellano la documentaci�n del plugin MTMacros de Brad Choate. Versi�n en castellano de la documentaci�n de MTMacros A ton of thanks, Brad.

this is stolen

2002-10-25T08:35:30Z

so here's a few more things fun and informative facts about the redesign… i finally figured out how to

strike tag

2002-11-07T02:23:53Z

This is SUCH a geeky post. I'm excited about HTML tags. LOL, if this is totally uninteresting to you, just

strike tag

2002-11-07T02:29:03Z

This is SUCH a geeky post. I'm excited about HTML tags. LOL, if this is totally uninteresting to you, just

Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

2002-11-08T02:54:58Z

:evil: This is just a test. It just means the MTMacros Plugin is working.

More Site tweaks

2002-11-10T17:01:31Z

Update on site features and fixes

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:36:33Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:39:37Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:41:58Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:47:35Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:50:17Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

a few tricks

2002-11-11T03:51:29Z

I've had a few extra minutes to clean a few bookmarks off my desktop. One of them was to dive

More MTMacros Fun

2002-11-11T05:24:49Z

Kristine's post about the MTMacros plug-in got me inspired to play around and now my life is even easier! I've

MT colophon

2002-11-17T05:48:51Z

Makali has ruminated on Movable Type, and I'm about to be able to switch my Radio readers over here, so

Installed MTMacro As Well

2002-11-19T22:32:43Z

I've also gone and installed MTMacro. Though I did have some trouble with it initially, in the end, I discovered

Awsome!

2002-12-03T13:36:06Z

[brad choate dot com] MTMacro *notes down as the next on his to-do list*

Implemented the MT-Macros plugin

2002-12-05T13:17:04Z

All hails to Brad for this one! Now, if this is done correctly the following words will be changed to

MTMacro: simple, and it works

2002-12-08T18:48:20Z

MTMacro: simple, and it works

2002-12-08T18:52:14Z

MTMacro: simple, and it works

2002-12-09T23:30:12Z

Very cool! It's not immediately obvious how easy MTMacro makes some pretty complex tasks. I'm just starting out, but I

minor backend work

2002-12-10T04:06:18Z

Hastur makes fool of self while hacking MT

minor backend work

2002-12-10T04:34:36Z

Hastur makes fool of self while hacking MT

Have A Smilie

2002-12-12T21:48:17Z

Alrighty...I started working on this last night, and I thought I was at a good stopping point to go to

Have A Smilie

2002-12-12T23:50:19Z

Alrighty...I started working on this last night, and I thought I was at a good stopping point to go to

MACROS

2002-12-15T21:20:35Z

I would like to use MTMacro and Overlib to create two things: 1) A glossary of terms 2) A revised

Blog: How My Blog Works

2002-12-19T23:11:08Z

How my blog works, what software (and plugins) are used and how it all sticks together.

MovableType Powered iMood!

2002-12-20T00:20:35Z

The big news from yesterday is the introduction of the iMood-style mood indicator at the top of the side menus.

MovableType Powered iMood!

2002-12-20T00:22:05Z

The big news from yesterday is the introduction of the iMood-style mood indicator at the top of the side menus.

MovableType Powered iMood!

2002-12-20T00:25:37Z

The big news from yesterday is the introduction of the iMood-style mood indicator at the top of the side menus.

MovableType Powered iMood!

2002-12-20T00:30:28Z

The big news from yesterday is the introduction of the iMood-style mood indicator at the top of the side menus.

RSS Ads in Movable Type

2002-12-25T01:47:16Z

Using the Regex plugin to insert intelligent advertising into an RSS feed.

RSS Ads in Movable Type

2002-12-25T01:48:58Z

Using the Regex plugin to insert intelligent advertising into an RSS feed.

MT Macros

2003-01-01T00:46:50Z

How do you shorten your work in MT? Macros.

Full Potential

2003-01-02T19:41:34Z

I've been looking at the MTMacros plugin all morning, when

MTMacros

2003-01-04T05:32:33Z

MT, XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS. Estoy probando los MTMacros con las indicaciones de acr�nimos de Dave.

Trackback is Go

2003-01-10T03:25:20Z

Aquarion seems to be running a parallel implementation process to what I am doing. The difference is that Aquarion is

Macro Magic

2003-01-11T15:52:51Z

I have my Book Review markup macro working the way I want it to now. Or at least pretty close.

MTMacro

2003-01-12T07:48:18Z

I wanted a way to automate acronym tags on my site. So I did some googling and came up with the answer (I knew there had to be a way). It's MTMacro. Its a Moveable Type plugin, you download it install it, and then follow Mark's directions. I am going ...

Implemented the MT-Macros plugin

2003-01-14T15:06:34Z

All hails to Brad for this one! Now, if this is done correctly the following words will be changed to

The More, The Less, The Macro

2003-01-25T20:17:40Z