phil ringnalda

PapaScott wants a better bookmarklet:

What I need is a million dollar authoring app so I can keep track of all those million dollar tags I can use. I don’t think a two bit bookmarklet is up to the job.

—PapaScott: Million Dollar Authoring App

Actually, it doesn’t take a million dollar authoring app, just a few minutes hacking away at CMS.pm

You probably don’t want to always have your bookmarklet come up with a heavily marked up blockquote, so first make yourself a new bookmarklet for BlogQuote (you may need to rename the original first, so your browser doesn’t object to having two bookmarklets with the same name until you rename the new one). Edit the new bookmarklet (right-click, Properties) to add &bquote=1 to the URI that the window.open will call (to avoid all the quotes out at the end, I put it right after the first parameter, so I’ve got ?is_bm=1&bquote=1&bm_show=trackback,…).

Somewhere in the neighborhood of line 584 in MT 2.51, or line 623 in MT 2.6 in {your MT directory}/lib/MT/App/CMS.pm, you should find:


if ($q->param('is_bm')) {
    $param{selected_text} = $param{text};


and just below that is the section that produces the stuff that will be inserted in your post from the “Post to MT Blog” bookmarklet:


$param{text} = sprintf qq(<a title="%s" href="%s">%s</a>\n\n%s),
scalar $q->param('link_title'),
scalar $q->param('link_href'),
scalar $q->param('link_title'),
$param{text};


Replace that with:


if ($q->param('bquote')){
$param{text} = sprintf qq(\n\n\n<blockquote cite="%s" title="%s"><p>%s</p>\n\n
<p class="cite">--<a href="%s">%s</a></p></blockquote>\n\n),
scalar $q->param('link_href'),
scalar $q->param('link_title'),
$param{text},
scalar $q->param('link_href'),
scalar $q->param('link_title');
} else {
$param{text} = sprintf qq(<a href="%s">%s</a>\n\n%s),
scalar $q->param('link_href'),
scalar $q->param('link_title'),
$param{text};
}

and you’ll get the default results (minus the redundant title attribute on the link, which I snipped out because I hate it) from your original bookmarklet, but the new one will give you

<blockquote cite="the link" title="the page title"><p>(the selected text)</p>

<p class="cite">--<a href="the link">the page title</a></p></blockquote>


You can choose your own way to arrange the pieces and parts of the quote and the links; just be sure to keep the scalar $q->param('whatever') and $param{text} in the order you want to have them replace the %s‘s in the first line. Then with that out of the way, you can move on to the more difficult aspects of keeping up with Mark.