MT-Notifier 2.0.0 »
I've finally finished up with MT-Notifier version 2 (technically, 2.0.1). There aren't a whole lot of changes on the surface, but it should be faster and it has been upgraded to work with the Movable Type 3.0D interface. I've greatly enhanced the management functions for both administrators and users. I've also pulled the email notification out into a template, for those of you who want to muck with it but don't like changing the code.
This release includes an upgrade facility from v1.4.0 subscriptions, and also includes the ScriptyGoddessconversion piece. I'm working on a conversion for EZ Subscribe to Comments, but I haven't had a chance to finish it up yet. It should be done soon. Other than the shiny new interface, the most noticeable difference will come in the subscriptions themselves.
MT-Notifier now supports subscriptions to an entire category and to an entire blog (corresponding opt-out records are available). That way you can provide email notifications to those who want to keep up, but not necessarily on a particular entry. All opt-out records are honored - so if you are subscribed to an entry, but have an opt-out for the category to which the entry belongs, you won't receive that notification.
The other major changes are under-the-hood. The infrastructure has been updated so that data access is modular - this means if there are additional data storage formats that are requested, they can be added (relatively) easily. The structure is there. I haven't actually done any adding yet. This means that Plugindata (and therefore Storable) are still required at the moment. But that should change in the reasonably near future.
I've tested things pretty throughly, but as always, if you run into problems please let me know.
Comments (8)
Any screenshots of the admin UI?
Posted by Anil Dash | July 6, 2004 3:52 PM
I am getting this error message when I go to http://www.fivestarcricket.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-notifier.cgi?__mode=mnu after attempting to login:Can't locate object method "load" via package "MT::PluginData" at extlib/jayseae/notifier.pm line 967.
Server Info: OPERATING SYSTEM:
Linux version 2.4.20-020stab009.3.777-smp
(st@rel251a.eng.sw.ru) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110))
Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.3.4 mod_perl/1.27
Posted by Neil | July 6, 2004 6:45 PM
I was using an older version wonderfully, moved to MT 3.0 and then upgraded MT-Notifier. Unfortunately I am not unable to connect to the MT-Notifier interface.
The URL is http://www.girlandgeek.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-notifier.cgi?__mode=mnu
But all I ever get is a HTTP 500 - Internal server error.
Any immediate thoughts? The files are in the correct directories, mt-notifier.cgi is 755. Not sure what else to check...and it was working before without a problem.
Thanks!
Ryan
Posted by Ryan | July 7, 2004 7:02 PM
Any chance of having older versions of MT-Notifier becoming available again. I.e. a 2.6x compatible version? No support, just the downloads?
cheers,
barneyb
Posted by Barney | June 13, 2005 1:08 PM
Most older versions have always been available. Simply add an underscore and the version number to the standard download link. The last version compatible with 2.x was 1.4.1, so the file name is MT-Notifier_1.4.1.zip.
Posted by Chad Everett | June 13, 2005 1:15 PM
Thanks Chad. Worked like a charm.
Posted by Barney | June 20, 2005 1:51 PM
Hi
I'm using MT-Notifier 2.5 and it doesn't send any mails if new entries are made... no errors, nothing i'm not sure what's the problem :/
My MT is 3.15.
Posted by LukasS | August 3, 2005 9:47 AM
Hi Lukas - About the only thing that will hold up notifications is if the email notification isn't turned on in your setup. Can you check?
Posted by Chad Everett | August 29, 2005 3:29 PM