Re: Getting comments working

On 3/28/07, Steve Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> it talks about the comment_reject callback. I have the Akismet plug-in
> installed, but I'm not sure if I need to do anything else for it to be
> called. I've looked at the documentation, but still feel I'm missing
> something.
>
> Looking at the pyblosxom code I see it scans plug-ins for cb_ functions.
>  When does that scan get run? Bear with me as I'm still learning about
> how web applications work.

I'm not sure if this is general to all web-applications or specific to
PyBlosxom.  When PyBlosxom launches (i.e. when the CGI script is first
executed or if PyBlosxom is running in a FastCGI environment, when it
first loads), it pulls the
plugin list, then goes through each plugin and builds a map of
callback -> list of functions in plugins that are registered for that
callback.

The code for this is in plugin_utils.py and it gets kicked off in the
initialize function in pyblosxom.py.  This happens very early on in
the PyBlosxom lifecycle--before we use any plugins like cb_start.

Asking questions about these things is good.  At a bare minimum, I
(and others) can take the questions and answers and cycle them into
the PyBlosxom documentation.

I don't know offhand if the akismet plugin verifies that it is
installed and configured correctly.  If it does, then run this at the
command line:

   ./pyblosxom.cgi

That will test your configuration of PyBlosxom.  It'll make sure
you've got required config.py properties set, it'll go through the
plugins that will be loaded and call "verify_installation" on all of
them so they can check to see if they're configured properly, and
it'll spit out a lot of output that should give you some idea of
what's getting loaded and whether your configuration looks ok.

There's some text about it here:

   http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/1.3.1/manual/x78.html

though it fails to mention that verification will go through your
PyBlosxom configuration and also through any plugin verification, too.

Hope that helps--
/will

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