<MTSQLComments query="select distinct com.comment_id from mt_comment com, mt_placement plc, mt_category cat where com.comment_entry_id=plc.placement_entry_id and plc.placement_category_id=cat.category_id and cat.category_label like '&lt;MTArchiveTitle&gt;%' order by com.comment_created_on desc limit 15">
  &gt; <a href="/past/<$MTCommentEntryID pad="1"$>.php"><$MTCommentBody remove_html="1" trim_to="25"$></a><br /><br />
</MTSQLComments>

Cool, eh?

Any ideas? The code I currently have resides at:

http://mt.sixapart.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3d4adc447c1dffff;act=ST;f=14;t=4658;st=15

Thanks,
Jason

The code I currently have is:

order by entry_title asc

Any ideas?

order by entry_title,entry_text asc

<MTSQLEntries query="select entry_id from mt_entry where entry_category_id="<MTSQL query="select category_id from mt_category where category_label='Foo Bar'>">

In the end, my goal is to have categories that aren't published to my blog, but instead are published to other pages on my website, such as essays, biographical information, etc.

Am I bending MT too far towards a CMS? :)

After actually looking at the MT manual, this example jumped up and bit me in the face:

<MTEntries lastn="5" offset="5">
...
</MTEntries>

Similarly, I could add only the categories I want to my blog via

<MTEntries lastn="5" offset="5"> ... </MTEntries>

So, my discoveries are correct, is there any benefit to performance/feature benefit to doing this with the SQL tag rather than the standard tags?

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into my template. When I rebuild, I get

Can't get DBI::st=HASH(0x87057f4)->{NAME_hash}: unrecognised attribute at /var/www/mt/extlib/bradchoate/sql.pm line 132

I'm using mt version 2.5. Thanks.

However.... mt-check tells me that I have DBD:mysql. Any idea what I did wrong? Is it possible that I'm running berkely db - how do I check?

CHECKING FOR DATA STORAGE MODULES:

The following modules are used for Movable Type data storage. You must
use either the Berkeley DB or MySQL database backend. In order to run
Movable Type, your server needs to have at least one of these modules
installed.

DB_File...
Your server has DB_File installed (version 1.72).

DBD::mysql...
Your server has DBD::mysql installed (version 2.0416).

Thanks!
-Adam

i got the following error after installing your plug-in (along with the author one too):

"Can't get DBI::st=HASH(0x860cc44)->{NAME_hash}: unrecognised attribute at extlib/bradchoate/sql.pm line 339."

this occured after rebuilding all files...any suggestions on how to go about solving this problem?

thanks in advance.

Regarding sherwin's error message - I traced the problem to an old version of perl-DBI (prior to 1.2.0 - when NAME_hash was introduced afai can tell).

Sadly, my linux admin skills aren't the best in the world - but with the kind help of Ryan W. Maple of Guardian Digital (makers of the first class Engarde Linux for running secure linux servers) I was able to get it running by updating my version of perl-DBI to 1.3.2

For other users running Engarde, the url for the updated packages is here: http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/people/ryan/stash/ESL-misc/

Best regards, and thanks for a very useful site.

Chris.

hahaha thanks chris for the shameless-plug =p

thanks in advance.

mkdir ~/lib
wget http://cpan.org/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.32.tar.gz
tar xzvf DBI-1.32.tar.gz
cd DBI-1.32
perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib PREFIX=~/lib
make
make install

Then specify the new DBI to MT by inserting a 'use lib' in front of the 'use DBI' in /path/to/mt/lib/MT/ObjectDriver/DBI/mysql.pm:

# MWJ 20021224: use newer DBI 1.32 in ~/lib
use lib qw(/home/mwjames/lib/i386-linux);
use DBI;

This one should pull the 5 most recent Trackback pings from the given category, when used in a Category Archive Template:
<MTSQLPings query="select distinct tbping_id from mt_tbping, mt_placement plc, mt_category cat where tbping_blog_id=[MTBlogID] and tbping_id=plc.placement_entry_id and plc.placement_category_id=cat.category_id and cat.category_label like '[MTArchiveTitle]%' order by tbping_created_on desc limit 5" default="&lt;div class=&quot;recent-body&quot;&gt;The [MTArchiveTitle] Cateogry Archive doesn't have any Trackback pings, yet.&lt;/div&gt;">
<div class="recent-body">
<$MTPingBlogName$><br /> sent a ping to this category on <$MTPingDate format="%b %e, %Y" $>, from the post, "<a href="<$MTPingURL$>" title="<$MTPingTitle$>"><$MTPingTitle$></a>."
</div>
</MTSQLPings>

This one should pull the 5 most recent Comments from the given month, when used in a Monthly Archive Template:
<MTSQLComments query="select distinct com.comment_id from mt_comment com, mt_placement plc where comment_blog_id=[MTBlogID] and com.comment_entry_id=plc.placement_entry_id and com.comment_created_on > '[MTArchiveDate format='%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S']' and com.comment_created_on < '[MTArchiveDateEnd format='%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S']' order by com.comment_created_on desc limit 5" default="&lt;div class=&quot;recent-body&quot;&gt;The [MTArchiveTitle] Category Archive doesn't have any Comments, yet.&lt;/div&gt;">
<div class="recent-body">
<a href="<$MTCommentEntryID pad="1"$>" title="Click to read the entire entry."><$MTCommentAuthor$></a> said:
<$MTCommentBody trim_to="50" convert_breaks="0" remove_html="1"$>...
</div>
</MTSQLComments>

This one should pull the 5 most recent Trackback pings from the given month, when used in a Monthly Archive Template:
<MTSQLPings query="select distinct tbping_id from mt_tbping where tbping_blog_id=[MTBlogID] and tbping_created_on > '[MTArchiveDate format='%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S']' and tbping_created_on < '[MTArchiveDateEnd format='%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S']' order by tbping_created_on desc limit 5" default="&lt;div class=&quot;recent-body&quot;&gt;The [MTArchiveTitle] Cateogry Archive doesn't have any Trackback pings, yet.&lt;/div&gt;">
<div class="recent-body">
<$MTPingBlogName$><br /> sent a ping to this category on <$MTPingDate format="%b %e, %Y" $>, from the post, "<a href="<$MTPingURL$>" title="<$MTPingTitle$>"><$MTPingTitle$></a>."
</div>
</MTSQLPings>

If you try to use any of these, be sure to replace the closing double-quotes (") with regular straight quotes. [Edited by Brad: you should be able to copy it straight now. Special characters have been removed.]

I'm by no means a SQL expert, so if you have optimization suggestions, please let me know. Cheers!

I wanted to let you know that some of your other plugins are working inside the MTSQLEntries tag and some aren't. For instance, MTIfNotEmpty is working but MTIfEmpty is not. Also, the wonderful MTEmbedImage refuses to work as well.

I don't know if there's anything you can do about it, but here I'd tell you fyi.

Thanks for a great plugin.

There's a few other things I"m trying to do too... I explained it more over here

Would greatly appreciate some help! :)

my objective is to leverage MTSQL to display categories associated with an individual entry in order of primary -> secondary (there are 2 and only 2 categories for each entry), rather than the MT default of alphabetical. i'm close, but am having some problems with the template.

please refer to this string for the latest problem i'm having:

http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e7274de4255ffff;act=ST;f=9;t=16246;st=0

thanks,
gabe

The static template page, obviously, makes use of MT tags.

So I suppose what I am asking is whether the MT tags in my cgi-generated oage will be automatically processed by the web server.

Both plugins works perfectly well standalone, but I don't get the results from your SQL plugin to the Amazon plugin.

My source looks like this:

" target="_blank">" align="left" border="0" style="padding-right: 5px;">

Any hints?

With its access to Perl, I think it'll be like a ColdFusion that doesn't suck.

Maybe I'm insane, but I think it's an avenue worth pursuing:
http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/000632.html

unfortunately, i need to be able to use this:

<$MTEntryDate format="%m.%d.%Y"$>

inside the query statement.

i haven't been able to get it to work, using any combination of quotations, single quotes, backslashes, forward slashes, etc.

i've also been unable to get MTSetVar to accept its input to set a variable--and even if i could, i can't use MTGetVar inside the select statement, again, because i can't get MTSQL to ignore the mandatory quotation marks around the variable name.

any chance MTSQL will be made smarter, to better handle MT tags with attributes?

any other ideas for how i might accomplish my task?

thanks,

m@

SELECT mtc.entry_oldID
FROM mt_custom AS mtc
LEFT JOIN mt_entry AS mte
ON (mtc.entry_date = mte.entry_created_on
AND mtc.blogID = mte.entry_blog_id)
WHERE mte.entry_id=[MTEntryID]

still, it'd be nice to be able to use more of MT's native tags *inside* the select statements.

but, hey, i'm happy now!

cheers,

m@

thanks for the plugin.

i'm using the MTSQLEntries tag on my index page to show entries from all but one category.

my query looks like
select entry_id, entry_created_on from mt_entry, mt_placement
where entry_id = placement_entry_id AND placement_category_id != 6 AND placement_is_primary = 1 AND entry_blog_id = 1 AND entry_status = 2 ORDER BY entry_created_on desc LIMIT 4"

i'm finding that for days with more than one entry, the second entry doesn't display the date & time, just the title.

would you have any ideas on what's going on?

thanks.