I am still having some issues with comments being recorded and
showing on the comments page. I have went over and over it all.

http://www.bastardinc.com

Who knows, could be like usual, I skipped something once again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--Mick




--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "peromedic"
<peromedic@y...> wrote:
>
> I realize that this post is old, but the number count problem seems
to be a common issue.
>
> in the past I have used FTP to upload comments to old posts (like I
did when I switched
> hosts). And it worked great.
>
> I am wondering how well this wil work if I attempt it again
(deleting and uploading the
> comments files and folder again), then changing the permissions to
777.
>
> I don't really want to lose all of the comments, and wondered how
much luck anyone else
> has had with this process. (thanks)
>
> --- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "boltyboy69"
<matthew@m...> wrote:
> > This works fine BUT you MUST delete the old comments files first.
> >
> > matthew Holt
> > --- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, Listas <listas@o...>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello dotcomments-support,
> > >
> > > i was almost pulling my hair out, because the countcomments was
not
> > > working.
> > >
> > > then i discovered that the problem is on the readme file, line
204
> > >
> > > when you read:
> > > <a href="javascript:viewComments(<$BlogItemNumber$>)"><? echo
> > commentCount(<$BlogItemNumber$>); ?></a>
> > >
> > > should be:
> > > <a href="javascript:viewComments('<$BlogItemNumber$>')"><? echo
> > commentCount('<$BlogItemNumber$>'); ?></a>
> > >
> > > what's the big deal, you might ask.
> > >
> > > The big deal are the single quotes. If you use this line without
> > > quotes, javascript will convert the huge number to another one,
and
> > > when PHP tries to open the file javascript funcion as passing
to
> > it,
> > > the file doesn't exist.
> > >
> > > example: my postid was: javascript:viewComments
> > (106147597912476108).
> > > when the first user created a comment, PHP recorded a
file
> > > called "106147597912476110.comment". Since You use a
> > nonquoted
> > > number through javascript, you comment engine will
work.
> > But
> > > not the counter. PHP will try to open the file
> > > 1.0614759791248E+017.comment, and get a 404.
> > >
> > > But i could post and read, because javascript was
passing
> > > 106147597912476110 to the file comments.php.
> > >
> > > Then, when i figured out (after a bunch of alert()
> > debugs), i
> > > quoted the numbers and everything started to work. but
i
> > had
> > > to rename my old comment files.
> > >
> > > It's a great comment system, simple and powerfull, with only a
bug
> > on
> > > the installation instructions. great work.
> > >
> > > Oh; i also made the form a little more beatiful adding a line
in
> > the
> > > style section (line 93), comments.php:
> > >
> > > input, textarea {font-family: <?php echo $font_face; ?>; font-
> > size: <?echo $font_size; ?>}
> > >
> > > that's all folks. happy coding.
> > >
> > > system: msie 5.5, mozilla firebird, win2k sp4