Hello All,

I've just learned that the final dotcomments distribution (from 2001)
can be exploited to send outgoing spam. The hosting company I use has
disabled my /comments directory until I resolve this problem. The
related posts here seem to refer to spam appearing within comments or
email harvesting, not the exploit I'm getting hit with (perhaps I've
mis-understood the posts?).

Anyway, has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a fix?

Thanks for your time.

Will this work for the 2.5 code as well? Impatient clickers (or people who don't
have the
capacity to understand SINGLE CLICK double post all the time. (and my server is
relatively
fast).





--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "meekut" <yahoo@w...> wrote:
> I wrote a quick addition to the 2.4 code that provides at least a tiny
> measure of protection against spam by making sure that any comment
> that's submitted is different from the last comment.  This would also
> stop the accidental double posts that happen from time to time when
> someone reloads the comments page after posting.
>
> I'm pretty sure that this won't cause problems on any server that
> dotcomments already runs on, but it might, so make sure you have
> backups. :)
>
> My code replaces:
>
> --- Line 45ish ---
>   if($banIPMode != 2) {
>     $file = @fopen("comments/$commentID.comment", 'a');
>     fwrite($file, $thisComment);
>     fclose($file);
>   }
> ---
>
> with:
>
> ---
>   if($banIPMode != 2) {
>  // dupe check \\
>  $lastComment = @file("comments/$commentID.last.comment");
>  if ($lastComment[0] == $dupeCheckComment) {
> 	 $duplicateComment = 1;
>  } else {
> 	 $file = @fopen("comments/$commentID.last.comment", "w");
> 	 fwrite($file, $dupeCheckComment);
> 	 fclose($file);
> 	 $file = @fopen("comments/$commentID.comment", 'a');
> 	 fwrite($file, $thisComment);
> 	 fclose($file);
>
>  } // end dupecheck
>   }
> --
>
> Very simple, and at least mildly effective.  I'm working on a Slashdot
> style lameness filter as well.  I'll let you know how that progresses.
>  Feedback is very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike West

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

How possible is it that this following change to my domain (this was an
announcment by
my domain host) is causing it?
<i>
<b>PHP Configuration Change, allow_url_fopen Disabled (Policy Change)</b>

Posted: Mar 16th, 2005 - 11:42:06 AM PST (1 day 5 hours ago)
PHP provides a feature allowing a programmer to open, include or otherwise use a
remote
file using a URL rather than a local file path.  Unfortunately, that feature is
the source of a
large number of security holes in PHP web applications running on our servers
and we
have been spending an increasing amount of time handling issues resulting from
those
security exploits.  In the interest of overall system security, we have decided
to disable this
feature as of now.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  Please
contact our
support team if you have any questions.
</i>

--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "peromedic" <peromedic@y...> wrote:
>
> http://www.perotheus.com/
>
> I am not sure what happened. I originally backed up my template code, edited
some
stuff with Greyduck's assistance in an attempt to not publish the email
addresses. I was
having problems with it (at some point I made the email field NON-Mandatory and
I don't
remember how I did that. And the code changes using his sample generated a parse
error
> in the php. So I put the original code back. (Which worked before).
>
> When the comment count didn't work, I searched the support boards for help and
now
my comments are all 0 (not just reading 0... literally the files are in the
directory but they
are not transferring. Quick version of the questions:
>
> - How do I upgrade all of the script code in the template and still keep the
old
comments?
  I can use FtP to dowload all of my comment files before I change things, but I
can't figure
> out what went wrong when I made the above changes.

http://www.perotheus.com/

I am not sure what happened. I originally backed up my template code, edited
some stuff
with Greyduck's assistance in an attempt to not publish the email addresses. I
was having
problems with it (at some point I made the email field NON-Mandatory and I don't
remember how I did that. And the code changes using his sample generated a parse
error
in the php. So I put the original code back. (Which worked before).

When the comment count didn't work, I searched the support boards for help and
now my
comments are all 0 (not just reading 0... literally the files are in the
directory but they are
not transferring.

Quick version of the questions:

- How do I upgrade all of the script code in the template and still keep the old
comments?

I can use FtP to dowload all of my comment files before I change things, but I
can't figure
out what went wrong when I made the above changes.

Need to change permissions (chmod 777) on the script, the comment
folder, and possibly the folder containing the script. I had this same
set of errors a couple days ago...

--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "sexee_thugette"
<sexee_thugette@y...> wrote:
>
> hi this is my blog comments page http://www.pimp-
> vibes.net/comments/comments.php for some reason i get these errors
>
> Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
> in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 39
>
> Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
> in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 40
>
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
> (output started
> at /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php:39)
> in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 43

hi this is my blog comments page http://www.pimp-
vibes.net/comments/comments.php for some reason i get these errors

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 39

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 40

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
(output started
at /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php:39)
in /home/pimpsnet/public_html/comments/comments.php on line 43

http://dailybugle.net/blog/testcomment.php

Ok, I've got everything working nicely now. Comments show up, the
count is accurate. Admin controls work. Spam protection is solid.

The only thing lacking right now is that the cookie doesn't seem to be
retaining the user info. I think usaf_angela mentioned the same issue.

Haven't found any good explanation for it yet, but I did notice that
it seems to be broken (dissabled?) on mobiustrip44's site as well.
Anybody have some ideas?

----- Original Message -----

From: mobiustrip44

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:12 PM

Subject: [dotcomments-support] Überdotcomments

just added to the file library a tweaked-out version of dotcomments w/
comment deletion, IP banning, blogger post-page support, spammer
checking, and url & lengthy-text truncation!

not for remote setups.  may require additional tweaking to work on
your server.  doesn't seem to be compatible with dreamhost atm, but
we're trying to work that out.

see it in action at jewschool.com.

In case anyone was curious, I did figure out how to do some basic form
validation. At least, someone has to enter something resembling a
valid-looking email address to leave comments on my site, now. On the
other hand, I long ago tweaked the script so that email addys aren't
displayed on the page (by popular request).

If you're horribly curious, the source is here:

http://greyduck.net/comments.phps

I did have cgicomments setup a little while back. I'm hoping that once
I get this incarnation working that I'll be able to modify my old
comment files to the new format so that I can bring all the old
comments back.

Anyway, I'm currently testing the script stand-alone
(http://dailybugle.net/comments.php?12345) and have changed it to use
the absolute path the comments dir as you suggested. No luck there.

$comments_path = "/home/myaccount/public_html/comments";

Thanks!

--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "Angela Allen"
<angela@l...> wrote:
> Well, looks like your blog files are in /blog...your comments
directory and comments.php should be in there as well, according to
the dotcomments setup.
>
> Did you have the "normal" dotcomments version set up before?  If
not, it might help if you use the system path to your /blog directory
instead of a URL in your $comments_path variable in both comments.php
and the PHP script at the beginning of your blog template.  Doing that
solved all my installation problems.  ;)
>
> Give it a shot and let us know how you get on...
>
>
>                   ~ Angela ~
>                   Proud wife of USAF SSgt Kerry Allen ~ 11 October 1999
>                   Proud big sister of USAF SrA "Dewey" Taylor
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>                   LunaClick.net  ~  About Me  ~  Albums  ~  BlogSpace
>                   ECHS Alumni  ~  Forum  ~  LunaShoppe  ~  PSP Goodies
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>                   RAF Mildenhall Spouses | Goodfellow AFB Spouses
>                   Pagan Military Spouses | PCS PSP | Mad About Tags
>
>
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Paul
>   To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:05 AM
>   Subject: [dotcomments-support] Re: Überdotcomments
>
>
>
>
>   Hi, thanks for the reply. I have the script and the comments directory
>   located in the root of my public_html directory. Both script and
>   comments.php are set to 755.
>
>   I have the script edited to include my URL and the location of the
>   scripts. I also have the tags from the template.txt file added to the
>   page I have been testing with. In trying to narrow down the problem,
>   I've been skipping the page itself and trying to get just the script
>   to work by itself (http://dailybugle.net/comments.php?12345) and still
>   can't seem to get it. Using the script by itself in this manner seems
>   to work on your installation, so I figured this was a decent test.
>
>   Looks to be an excelent comment system, so I'd love to get it working.
>
>   Thanks again!
>   -Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>   Yahoo! Groups Links

--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <w_stalions@y...>
wrote:
>
> --- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "Dan \"Mobius\" Sieradski"
> <mobiustrip@t...> wrote:
> > paul -- did you follow the directions for previous dot comments
> > installations?
> >
> > you need to create a comments directory chmodded to 755 as as
subfolder
> > of the folder you're executing the script from
> >
> > then try again
>
> Hi, thanks for the reply. I have the script and the comments directory
> located in the root of my public_html directory. Both script and
> comments.php are set to 755.
>
> I have the script edited to include my URL and the location of the
> scripts. I also have the tags from the template.txt file added to the
> page I have been testing with. In trying to narrow down the problem,
> I've been skipping the page itself and trying to get just the script
> to work by itself (http://dailybugle.net/comments.php?12345) and still
> can't seem to get it. Using the script by itself in this manner seems
> to work on your installation, so I figured this was a decent test.
>
> Looks to be an excelent comment system, so I'd love to get it working.
>
> Thanks again!
> -Paul

An attempt at posting returns the following:
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Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
/home/dailybug/public_html/comments.php on line 218

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
/home/dailybug/public_html/comments.php on line 222

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
(output started at /home/dailybug/public_html/comments.php:218) in
/home/dailybug/public_html/comments.php on line 225
No comments found.
Add your comment: (Auto-line breaks enabled.)
Post successful.
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PHP 4.3.10

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:05 AM

Subject: [dotcomments-support] Re: Überdotcomments

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have the script and the comments directory
located in the root of my public_html directory. Both script and
comments.php are set to 755.

I have the script edited to include my URL and the location of the
scripts. I also have the tags from the template.txt file added to the
page I have been testing with. In trying to narrow down the problem,
I've been skipping the page itself and trying to get just the script
to work by itself (http://dailybugle.net/comments.php?12345) and still
can't seem to get it. Using the script by itself in this manner seems
to work on your installation, so I figured this was a decent test.

Looks to be an excelent comment system, so I'd love to get it working.

Thanks again!
-Paul





 
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--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "Dan \"Mobius\" Sieradski"
<mobiustrip@t...> wrote:
> paul -- did you follow the directions for previous dot comments
> installations?
>
> you need to create a comments directory chmodded to 755 as as subfolder
> of the folder you're executing the script from
>
> then try again

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have the script and the comments directory
located in the root of my public_html directory. Both script and
comments.php are set to 755.

I have the script edited to include my URL and the location of the
scripts. I also have the tags from the template.txt file added to the
page I have been testing with. In trying to narrow down the problem,
I've been skipping the page itself and trying to get just the script
to work by itself (http://dailybugle.net/comments.php?12345) and still
can't seem to get it. Using the script by itself in this manner seems
to work on your installation, so I figured this was a decent test.

Looks to be an excelent comment system, so I'd love to get it working.

Thanks again!
-Paul

paul -- did you follow the directions for previous dot comments
installations?

you need to create a comments directory chmodded to 755 as as subfolder
of the folder you're executing the script from

then try again

My comments were working properly and today the window width is
resizable in some browsers (ie / firefox on Windows and firefox on
mac) the window is not resizable on Safari for Mac.

It was working properly before-- and up until it was broken I had not
been editing my comments.php file.

I don't remember where that configuration is. ?

Checked out the site and tried out the script. I'm trying to get it to
work on my site and am having 0 luck.

http://dailybugle.net/blog/testcomment.html

Any input would be really welcome!!

-Paul


--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "mobiustrip44"
<mobiustrip@t...> wrote:
>
> just added to the file library a tweaked-out version of dotcomments w/
> comment deletion, IP banning, blogger post-page support, spammer
> checking, and url & lengthy-text truncation!
>
> not for remote setups.  may require additional tweaking to work on
> your server.  doesn't seem to be compatible with dreamhost atm, but
> we're trying to work that out.
>
> see it in action at jewschool.com.

just added to the file library a tweaked-out version of dotcomments w/
comment deletion, IP banning, blogger post-page support, spammer
checking, and url & lengthy-text truncation!

not for remote setups.  may require additional tweaking to work on
your server.  doesn't seem to be compatible with dreamhost atm, but
we're trying to work that out.

see it in action at jewschool.com.

Thanks angela - this got me most of the way there, everything seems to be
working now,
except the comment numbering system.

If you could, just have another look at:

http://feltron.com/

and tell me if anything still looks fishy.

cheers, nicholas.

--- In dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com, "Angela Allen" <angela@l...> wrote:
> Just looking at the source code on your index page, and I'm seeing two things
that look
fishy...
>
> 1.  Do your entry ID numbers typically have angle brackets (< >) around them? 
If not,
you may want to fix that in your template code...
>
> 2.  You're attempting to parse PHP code on a non-PHP page.  :)  Change your
generated
file extensions to .php, and your comment count should display correctly.  I'm
seeing the
<? echo > and <? php > tags in your source code, which shouldn't happen.
>
> Double check those two things, and give us a shout if you receive any errors
after
republishing.  ;)
>
> (I'm by no means a PHP guru, but I'm happy to help when I can...)
>
>
>                   ~ Angela ~
>                   Proud wife of USAF SSgt Kerry Allen ~ 11 October 1999
>                   Proud big sister of USAF SrA "Dewey" Taylor
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>                   LunaClick.net  ~  About Me  ~  Albums  ~  BlogSpace
>                   ECHS Alumni  ~  Forum  ~  LunaShoppe  ~  PSP Goodies
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>                   RAF Mildenhall Spouses | Goodfellow AFB Spouses
>                   Pagan Military Spouses | PCS PSP | Mad About Tags
>
>
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ionclash77
>   To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:30 AM
>   Subject: [dotcomments-support] Implementing problems
>
>
>
>
>
>   Trying to implement comments into the news section of my design site.
Familiar with
>   HTML, and PHP test has worked on the site, permissions seem to be set
correctly, but
the
>   script seems to go nowhere - can someone please advise.
>
>   http://feltron.com/index_test.html
>
>   http://feltron.com/test.php
>
>   thanks, nicholas

----- Original Message -----

From: ionclash77

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:30 AM

Subject: [dotcomments-support] Implementing problems

Trying to implement comments into the news section of my design site. Familiar with
HTML, and PHP test has worked on the site, permissions seem to be set correctly, but the
script seems to go nowhere - can someone please advise.

http://feltron.com/index_test.html

http://feltron.com/test.php

thanks, nicholas

Trying to implement comments into the news section of my design site. Familiar
with
HTML, and PHP test has worked on the site, permissions seem to be set correctly,
but the
script seems to go nowhere - can someone please advise.

http://feltron.com/index_test.html

http://feltron.com/test.php

thanks, nicholas

----- Original Message -----

From: Angela Allen

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:03 AM

Subject: Re: [dotcomments-support] Comments page not loading...

Alrighty, I tried Phil Ringalda's "Remote dotcomments" script (*waves to Phil*), and it works.  :)  I'm not sure why one would work and not the other, but hey, not looking in any gift horses' mouths lately...

 

Now the only problem is that my comment count under each entry isn't updating after the page loads.  I'm still working the issue, but I may need to enlist you lovely folks' assistance again.  :)

 

Thanks for being patient with me!

----- Original Message -----

From: Angela Allen

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:00 PM

Subject: Re: [dotcomments-support] Comments page not loading...

John, I tried setting the permissions on comments.php to both 777 and 755, but no change.  :(

 

Any other ideas?

 

I've been banging my head against this thing for days, and I'm not seeing any reason why it shouldn't work...  I've half a mind to try the CGI version.  :-/

----- Original Message -----

From: jonz0r@...

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:14 PM

Subject: Re: [dotcomments-support] Comments page not loading...

Hey Angela,

I recently started using dotcomments and I found I got some sort of error
when everything should have been working right.  What I was not doing was
not setting the comments.php page (or whatever you named it) to access
777.  In fact, 755 should work to, but try 777 and if your system doesnt
work, do 755.

Dont know what I'm talking about?  Whatever ftp client you use (i use
SmartFTP), it should have access options in a properties part of each file
that you can set.  This sets read, write, execute access from different
parties.  I believe the UNIX command is CHCOM, but dont quote me on that,
I use SmartFTP to make it easy.  If you do get that perticular program,
right click on the file you want to change access to, click properties,
and change the access options in the text box with the three numbers in it
(you can also select click boxes for each read/write/execute, but the
numbers is easier for me.)

Anyway, thats the problem I encountered, and I hope it helps you.

-Jon, Jonz0r.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Thaiana Lopes

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:12 PM

Subject: [dotcomments-support] it forgives me

oi! he forgives me but.... I do not know of whom that you I stops. I am of Brazil, florianópolis and not entendu what you write much less why that you order as much email for me, forgives me... you could explains me why of this?

----- Original Message -----

From: jonz0r@...

To: dotcomments-support@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:14 PM

Subject: Re: [dotcomments-support] Comments page not loading...

Hey Angela,

I recently started using dotcomments and I found I got some sort of error
when everything should have been working right.  What I was not doing was
not setting the comments.php page (or whatever you named it) to access
777.  In fact, 755 should work to, but try 777 and if your system doesnt
work, do 755.

Dont know what I'm talking about?  Whatever ftp client you use (i use
SmartFTP), it should have access options in a properties part of each file
that you can set.  This sets read, write, execute access from different
parties.  I believe the UNIX command is CHCOM, but dont quote me on that,
I use SmartFTP to make it easy.  If you do get that perticular program,
right click on the file you want to change access to, click properties,
and change the access options in the text box with the three numbers in it
(you can also select click boxes for each read/write/execute, but the
numbers is easier for me.)

Anyway, thats the problem I encountered, and I hope it helps you.

-Jon, Jonz0r.com

Hey Angela,

I recently started using dotcomments and I found I got some sort of error
when everything should have been working right.  What I was not doing was
not setting the comments.php page (or whatever you named it) to access
777.  In fact, 755 should work to, but try 777 and if your system doesnt
work, do 755.

Dont know what I'm talking about?  Whatever ftp client you use (i use
SmartFTP), it should have access options in a properties part of each file
that you can set.  This sets read, write, execute access from different
parties.  I believe the UNIX command is CHCOM, but dont quote me on that,
I use SmartFTP to make it easy.  If you do get that perticular program,
right click on the file you want to change access to, click properties,
and change the access options in the text box with the three numbers in it
(you can also select click boxes for each read/write/execute, but the
numbers is easier for me.)

Anyway, thats the problem I encountered, and I hope it helps you.

-Jon, Jonz0r.com

> Hi, all.  :)
>
> I've searched the message archives and couldn't find a solution to this
> problem, so I'm hoping someone who's figured it out can give me a hand.
>
> First, I'm not an HTML newbie, but I'm fairly new to PHP and am still
> feeling my way around it, for the most part.  That being said, sometimes I
> can't see the forest for the trees, and it's often stupid little mistakes
> (like forgetting a quotation mark or semicolon) that kill me.  :p  I'm
> hoping another set of eyes might spot what I can't see...  I usually use
> 1st Page as an editor, but I downloaded tsWebEditor for its error-finding
> tool...nothing turned up when I used it.
>
> My blog site is set up at http://blog.lunaclick.net (it's a work in
> progress, and the category archives aren't templated yet).  I'm using Blog
> (http://www.farook.org) to publish, and as it's a Blogger emulator, a lot
> of the <insert content here> tags are the same or similar.
>
> The count seems to be ok so far (being that I have no comments on
> anything, and every comments link shows "No Comments," just like I want it
> to, LOL).  When I click on the link, though, the comments window pops up,
> but it takes FOREVER to load, and when it loads, I get a "cannot find
> server/page cannot be displayed" error.
>
> I've tried different configurations -- even using the original
> "straight-out-of-the-box" versions, changing only my URLs and paths -- but
> no changes I make seem to be in a positive direction.  :-/  I'm going to
> keep playing around with it, but here is the code that I'm using right
> now:

<?

function commentCount($n)
{
$comments_path = "http://blog.lunaclick.net/comments/";
$filesystem_path = "/www/x/xxxx/blog/htdocs/comments/";

if (file_exists($filesystem_path . "$n.comment"))
{
$file = @fopen($comments_path . "$n.comment", 'r');
$thisFile = fread($file, '1000000');
$thisFile = explode("\n", trim($thisFile));
fclose($file);
$comments = sizeof($thisFile);
if($comments == 1)
{
$comments .= " Comment";
}
else
{
$comments .= " Comments";
}
}
else
{
$comments = "No Comments";
}
return $comments;
}
?>

function viewComments(n)
{
window.open('/comments.php?' + n, 'Comments' + n, 'directories=0,height=480,location=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,width=515');
}

<a href="javascript:viewComments('<$BlogID>');"><? echo commentCount('<$BlogID>'); ?></a>

<?
// User-defined Variables (FEEL FREE TO EDIT THESE)
$table_bgcolor = array("#808088", "#707078");
$order = "1";
$timeAdjustment = "3";
$comments_path = "http://blog.lunaclick.net/";
$email = "angela@...";
$showip = "0";

// Begin Comment Parsing (DON'T EDIT THIS)
error_reporting(7);

$commentID = ereg_replace('[^0-9]', '', getenv('QUERY_STRING'));
$commentText = preg_replace('/<((?!\/?(b|i|u|a|ol|ul|li)\b)[^>]*)>/xis', '', ' ' . stripslashes(trim($commentText)));
$commentText = trim(eregi_replace("[^\"]((http|mailto|ftp):\/\/[^[:space:]<>]{1,})", " <a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>", $commentText));
$commentText = str_replace("\n", '<br>', $commentText);

if($commentText) {
if(!isset($commentName) && isset($submit)) $commentName = 'Anonymous'; else $commentName = strip_tags(trim($commentName));
if(!isset($commentMail)) $commentMail = ''; else $commentMail = strip_tags(trim($commentMail));
if(!isset($commentSite)) $commentSite = ''; else $commentSite = strip_tags(trim($commentSite));
if(strlen($commentSite) && !stristr($commentSite, 'http://')) $commentSite = 'http://' . $commentSite;

$commentDate = time() + ($timeAdjustment * 3600);
$thisComment = $commentDate . '[+]' . $commentName . '[+]' . $commentMail . '[+]' . $commentText . '[+]' . $commentSite . '[+]' . getenv('REMOTE_ADDR') . "\n";

$file = @fopen("comments/$commentID.comment", 'a');
fwrite($file, $thisComment);
fclose($file);

$cookie = $commentName . '[+]' . $commentMail . '[+]' . $commentSite;
setcookie('comments', $cookie, time() + 31536000);

if($email) {
mail($email, "New Comment [$commentID]", stripslashes($commentText) . "\n\n--\nTo view this comment, visit " . $comments_path . "comments.php?" . $commentID, "From: $commentName <$commentMail>");
}
} elseif($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['comments']){
list($commentName, $commentMail, $commentSite) = explode('[+]', $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['comments']);
}

if($file = @fopen($comments_path . "comments/$commentID.comment", 'r')) {
$comments = fread($file, '1000000');
$comments = explode("\n", trim($comments));
fclose($file);

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($comments); $i++) {
$thisComment = explode('[+]', stripslashes($comments[$i]));
$thisComment[0] = ' &#0149; ' . date("m/d/y h:ia", $thisComment[0]);
if($thisComment[2]) $thisComment[2] = ' [<a href="mailto:' . $thisComment[2] . '">' . $thisComment[2] . '</a>] ';
if($thisComment[4]) $thisComment[1] = '<a href="' . $thisComment[4] . '">' . $thisComment[1] . '</a>';
if($thisComment[5] && $showip) $thisComment[5] = ' &#0149; ' . $thisComment[5]; else $thisComment[5] = '';
$comment[$i] = $thisComment[3] . "<br>\n<div class=\"date\">" . $thisComment[1] . $thisComment[2] . $thisComment[5] . $thisComment[0] . "</div>\n";
}
} else {
$comment[0] = "<p align=\"center\">No comments found.</p>\n";
}

if($order) {
$countStart = 0;
$countEnd = sizeof($comment);
$countInc = 1;
} else {
$countStart = sizeof($comment) - 1;
$countEnd = -1;
$countInc = -1;
}

// End Comment Parsing
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>BlogSpace - Comments</title>
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex, nofollow">
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="/blog.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=screen>
<base target="_blank">
</head>

<body>

<form method="post" name="frmPost" target="_top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<? for($i = $countStart; $i != $countEnd; $i += $countInc) { ?>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="<? echo $table_bgcolor[$i % 2]; ?>" class="comment">
<? echo $comment[$i]; ?>
</td>
</tr>
<? } ?>
<tr>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left" class="form" colspan="2" valign="middle" width="100%"><b>Add your comment:</b> (Auto-line breaks enabled.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" class="form" valign="middle" width="1%">Name:</td>
<td align="left" valign="middle" width="99%"><input maxlength="50" name="commentName" size="40" type="text" value="<? echo $commentName; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" class="form" valign="middle">Email:</td>
<td align="left" valign="middle"><input maxlength="75" name="commentMail" size="40" type="text" value="<? echo $commentMail; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" class="form" valign="middle">Website:</td>
<td align="left" valign="middle"><input maxlength="100" name="commentSite" size="40" type="text" value="<? echo $commentSite; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" class="form" valign="top">Comment:</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><textarea cols="38" name="commentText" rows="5" wrap="virtual"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><br></td>
<td><input name="Cancel" onclick="javascript:window.close();" type="button" value="Cancel" class="button"> &nbsp; &nbsp; <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" class="button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I was wondering if there is another way to disable comments for a particular
post/
comment file (such as changing the permissions on the ####.comment file) - is
that the
best way to do it and affect ONLY that comment file from further posts?

(I want to close a particular discussion before they start drawing blood)