Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: BlogCFC Alpha 2 Launched

BlogCFC Alpha 2 Launched

Didn't I say something about not having a new version for a while? I finished the second alpha today, which includes the improvements I mentioned in the earlier post, and trackback support.

Trackback support comes from work that Dave Lobb did for his blog. I'm not 100% satisfied with it yet, but thanks go to him for doing 99% of the work. How do you use it? Well, if your blog system supports doing TB hits, you just hit my blog url at trackback.cfm, with a form post containing title, except, your blog_name, and the URL of the entry. The form post should have a query string that equals the ID of the entry you are hitting. If you don't have a system that lets you TB other blogs, you can click on the Trackback links on the entry and add it manually. The response from this is XML and not user friendly, so I'll be changing that.

If you are the admin and are linking to another blog, you can click on the Trackbacks link to hit that other blog. The form appears below the form the site visitors see. It's hidden though for people who are not logged in.

So... as I said, I'm not 100% happy with it - but luckily it won't take much for me to get it just right for me. (Sorry Dave, I'm super-particular about my code. ;)

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 5:23 PM. It was filed in the following categories: BlogCFC. It has been viewed 4,620 times and has 13 comments.

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Comment 1 written by Raymond Camden on 22 September 2005, at 6:26 PM

FYI, TBing my site does NOT clear the cache. Will fix that later on.
Comment 2 written by Rob Brooks-Bilson on 23 September 2005, at 8:27 AM

Does it make sense to list trackbacks first, or comments?
Comment 3 written by Raymond Camden on 23 September 2005, at 8:31 AM

You know, I don't know. I think comments maybe _should_ be first, although on other blogs I've seen TB first.

Let's take a vote. :)
Comment 4 written by Ben Forta on 23 September 2005, at 9:18 AM

Make it configurable, of course! :-)
Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 23 September 2005, at 9:20 AM

Well - that I'm not so sure about. I don't want the INI to get -too- complex. I'd rather make my client code a bit easier to modify. I'd love to get it into a nice template system, with crap like

%entryTitle%
%entryBody%

%comments%

But that may be more a BlogCFC 5.0 thing. ;)
Comment 6 written by Ben Forta on 23 September 2005, at 9:25 AM

Ah, I am all for making things as runtime configurable as possible. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
Comment 7 written by Pete Freitag on 23 September 2005, at 11:05 AM

Cool - so where's the trackback url? I see you can enter the trackback via a form post, thats cool. Most blog software that support trackbacks let you enter a trackback url's when you do a post.

BTW I have a few entries on implementing trackbacks in my blog here: http://www.petefreitag.com/tag/trackbacks
Comment 8 written by Raymond Camden on 23 September 2005, at 11:14 AM

The trackback URL is missing - it is on my list to add. Basically it should be

myhost/track.cfm?XXXXXXX

where XXXXXX is the UUID of the post. Which is hidden now due to my SES URLs. :) So I definitely need to work on it a bit.
Comment 9 written by Dave on 26 September 2005, at 7:59 AM

Ray, quick note, the Javascript Name for both your Comments window and Trackback window are the same causing one to overwrite the other upon open.
Comment 10 written by Raymond Camden on 26 September 2005, at 8:10 AM

I think I prefer that actually Dave. FYI, a new alpha will be on soon. I'm adding Print format support.
Comment 11 written by Dave on 26 September 2005, at 8:14 AM

Ok I wasn't sure but I thought I'd just mention it.
Comment 12 written by Ian Winter on 27 September 2005, at 3:09 PM

On a feature note for v2, any thought to added support for del.icio.us. I mean in the sense of ability to tag post, not pinching the idea but like Pete Frietag has done on his blog?
Comment 13 written by Pete Freitag on 27 September 2005, at 8:29 PM

Just to clarify I don't use del.icio.us to tag my posts, that is all stored in my db. I simply provide a link for people to bookmark an entry on del.icio.us.