Re: weblog-add

James Hosken wrote:

> I've just installed pyblosxom for the first time and I'm trying to get
> weblog-add to work.
> I've set up the .htaccess and the password file but I can't work out
> what I need to change in the weblog-add.py file.

Not much to change really, just the pointer to your blog directory. Is 
there a problem using weblog_add.py in the first place? For example, 
permissions problems is the one I presume to be one of the main problem 
that users may face.

> I have changed the blog_root to where my entries are stored but I don't
> understand what I need to do with user2Link()
>
> def user2Link(user):
> ~    """given a username, return some representation of that user
> ~    Generally, this will be an anchor ref of a mailto URL
> ~    """
> ~    # could also look up mail addrs via a table lookup, etc
> ~    return '<a href="mailto:%(user)[email protected]">%(user)s</a>' %
> {"user": user}

You can do way with this function altogether. What it basically does is 
look at your username and return some kind of email address . The 
weblog_add.py generally adds metadata to your weblog entry, which is 
just the username, and email address. You could then use this as a 
variable in your weblog template. You can also use the weblog_add.py 
script as a starting point to embed a lot more metadata as well.

> Please could some one point out what I need to change to get this to 
> work.
>
> Do I need to put a entry in py['load_plugins']

weblog_add.py script is a standalone script that works outside of 
pyblosxom. You can use this same script to power a blosxom blog, etc. So 
there's no load_plugins variable to touch.

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