MovableBlog: Found Out
Nuance 2.0
July 15, 2002
Things we (Bill and I, MT aficionados both) found out today. Er, yesterday.
- MT does not support nested tags (such as <MTTag attribute="<$MTTag2$>">)
- it would be exceedingly difficult (impossible?) to have PHP plugins for MT, since it's written in Perl.
- writing plugins for MT is hard if you don't know Perl.
- writing plugins might actually be a reason for learning Perl.
Comments
I may have solved the MT PHP plugin problem yet. "What's that", you say, "PHP plugins? That's impossible!!"
Well apparently you've never met Bill :-)
Alright, I should probably brag after i get it working, but be prepared for native support by the end of this week. I'll keep you posted.
Posted by: Bill Zeller | July 15, 2002 08:05 PM
whoa, kinky!
Posted by: jesse | July 16, 2002 04:51 PM
The nested tag problem is the reason MTAmazon supports syntax like <MTAmazon search="[MTEntryTitle]">.
On a related note, MT also didn't support tags inside entry bodies or other generated text. So I created Process Tags, a plugin that lets you use MT tags inside the anything generated by another MT tag (like entry text).
Posted by: Adam Kalsey | August 7, 2002 08:54 PM