August 19, 2003

An MT question

Does anyone know of a script or plugin that can implement something for Movable Type like the member registration capability that Pmachine uses? So far the closest plugin (or hack, or whatever it is) that I have found for MT is one which puts new comments on hold until the blog owner can review them. I'm more interested in something that makes people have to register in order to comment -- and that needs a real email address so the password can be sent to them. In other words, I am sick of pseudonymous posters who use fake email addresses to troll the blogs I run, and I'd rather not switch the site over to Pmachine (which I'd have to pay for if I wanted to run more than one blog from it) unless I absolutely have to.

PS: in other site news, I have made the individual comments linkable from the individual entry pages.

Posted by Andrea Harris at August 19, 2003 08:40 PM
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Only thing I can find is that they're planning to put comment registration into the Pro version of MT. Sawwy.

Posted by: Solonor at August 19, 2003 at 09:19 PM

Huh. Well, I wish they'd get on with finshing it then. It might actually be worth it to pay for the Pro version -- if, that is, I don't have to rebuild my entire site. If the Pro version can just be an upgrade... We'll see.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at August 19, 2003 at 09:25 PM

Do you have PHP and a database available? It might be possible for someone to whip up a login hack for comments then.

Posted by: marc at August 19, 2003 at 09:52 PM

Marc: yes. That's what I'm hoping for, actually, that someone has written a program/script/hack/thingie.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at August 19, 2003 at 10:24 PM

you can grab php membership scripts on any of the php script repositories out there.

Posted by: ryan at August 20, 2003 at 07:48 AM