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thescribe

Nov 13 2002, 04:13 PM

Any way to set this feature up on future versions? Where I can update all my blogs (or better yet, multiple blogs) that are on the same site with one click.

nefarious

Aug 28 2003, 07:26 PM

I second that. Please!

Those of us that are misusing the product as a content manager would really appreciate it

ndns

Aug 29 2003, 11:49 AM

I wonder if you could misuse MTRebuild to do that?

I would be interested to hear if that works for either of you or not. Good luck.

almuhajabah

Aug 29 2003, 11:23 PM

According to this it should work.

ndns

Aug 30 2003, 01:28 PM

Yes, I understand the documentation and all. From what I have read, though, you would either have to run it as a cron or by logging in with shell access.

Is it possible to just navigate your browser to http://www.example.com/mt/mt-rebuild.pl and have the script do it's thing that way?

charle97

Aug 30 2003, 01:41 PM

why would you need to rebuild blogs like that?

ndns

Aug 30 2003, 01:42 PM

One scenario that I can think of is that your site is composed of multiple blogs. The templates for each blog are the same, linked to a file. You update that file and want the changes to take effect on all of the blogs it is linked to.

charle97

Aug 30 2003, 01:47 PM

if you have ssi or php available, you can output the relevant content from each blog and then use include statements to build the page's content.

girlie

Aug 30 2003, 03:22 PM

There's a script in this thread to run a rebuild from the browser - it's for a single blog only, though.

Can anyone write the Perl code to loop through all blogs?

ndns

Aug 30 2003, 08:06 PM

Awesome, girlie. Thanks for the link. Sorry I didn't search first.

bakken

Sep 4 2003, 10:03 AM

Hope this will help others with this same problem--I'm using MT to run a website, more as a Content Mangement System than a single blog, so I have several blogs that all need to use the same templates. I just took the perl script that girlie linked above and copied everything but the last line

CODE

print "Finished: ".(localtime())." \n";

for each blog. What I ended up with was one long file of this script repeating, and I just changed the blog number after I pasted the script. At the end of the scirpt, I made sure that the

CODE

print "Finished: ".(localtime())." \n";

was tagged on to the end.

Initial testing shows that it works and it works fast when I enter changes to an index template. I'll keep working with it.

Here's an example for 2 blogs, note the repeating code and all that is changed is the blog id number.

CODE

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Usage: mt-rebuild.pl
# add this to your cron file to automate rebuilds. example:
#
#0 0 * * * /path/to/mtdir/mt-rebuild.pl
#
# The above will rebuild blog #1 at 12 AM (your server's time)

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";

# INSERT YOUR BLOG ID BELOW
my $blog_id = 1; # blog id here
if (!$blog_id) {
print STDERR "usage: mt-rebuild.pl (Blog ID)\n";
exit 1;
}

my($MT_DIR);
BEGIN {
if ($0 =~ m!(.*[/\])!) {
$MT_DIR = $1;
} else {
$MT_DIR = './';
}
unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'lib';
unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'extlib';
}

require MT;

my $mt = MT->new(Config => $MT_DIR . 'mt.cfg',
Directory => $MT_DIR);

require MT::Blog;

my $blog = MT::Blog->load($blog_id);

if (!$blog) {
print STDERR "failed to load blog $blog_id\n";
exit 1;
}

print "Rebuilding Blog: ".$blog->name." \n";
print "Started: ".(localtime())." \n";

$mt->rebuild(
BlogID => $blog_id,
EntryCallback => sub { print ' - ',$_[0]->title, '('.$_[0]->id.')', " \n" }
);
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Usage: mt-rebuild.pl
# add this to your cron file to automate rebuilds. example:
#
#0 0 * * * /path/to/mtdir/mt-rebuild.pl
#
# The above will rebuild blog #1 at 12 AM (your server's time)

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";

# INSERT YOUR BLOG ID BELOW
my $blog_id = 2; # blog id here
if (!$blog_id) {
print STDERR "usage: mt-rebuild.pl (Blog ID)\n";
exit 1;
}

my($MT_DIR);
BEGIN {
if ($0 =~ m!(.*[/\])!) {
$MT_DIR = $1;
} else {
$MT_DIR = './';
}
unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'lib';
unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'extlib';
}

require MT;

my $mt = MT->new(Config => $MT_DIR . 'mt.cfg',
Directory => $MT_DIR);

require MT::Blog;

my $blog = MT::Blog->load($blog_id);

if (!$blog) {
print STDERR "failed to load blog $blog_id\n";
exit 1;
}

print "Rebuilding Blog: ".$blog->name." \n";
print "Started: ".(localtime())." \n";

$mt->rebuild(
BlogID => $blog_id,
EntryCallback => sub { print ' - ',$_[0]->title, '('.$_[0]->id.')', " \n" }
);

ndns

Sep 4 2003, 12:41 PM

Nice job, bakken. Only one thing...

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print "Finished: ".(localtime())." \n";

...was not tacked onto the end like you said. Can it just be added at the very end of the code you posted or is there something that needs to come before it?

-lc-

Sep 7 2003, 10:34 PM

I've been wanting to do this and noticed no one has ever gotten a good answer here how to go about doing it. So I am going to try to tackle it myself.

I'm studying the rebuild_confirm.tmpl template to see if I can hack it to add "Rebuild all blogs" as an option.

I also know about this http://www.pyrojection.com/rebuild.html
and this http://www.mplode.com/tima/files/mt-plugins#mt-rebuild

anything else I've missed that might give me some ideas?

I'm open for suggestions and ways to approach this...

Thanks for any help!

maddy

Sep 7 2003, 10:54 PM

Topics merged.

-lc-

Sep 8 2003, 12:43 AM

I now have a web based script available for beta testing to rebuild all blogs from the rebuild button:

http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.p...ST&f=14&t=27300

nolageek

Sep 8 2003, 04:15 PM

QUOTE (charle97 @ Aug 30 2003, 04:47 PM)

if you have ssi or php available, you can output the relevant content from each blog and then use include statements to build the page's content.

Well, This works untill you start linking to archives of your sub-blogs. At snoship.org I use a separate blog for the Main Site, another for Talk of the Town, and another for Movers and Shakers. (This makes it easier for the people who admin it. I don't want to deal with teaching them about categories and such. Plus this way I can expand on these sections later)

I use MTOtherBlog & MTInclude to pull the header/footer/sidebar templates from the main Blog. Plus use PHP include to pull the various data from the other blogs.

The problem is that once I change the header or footer I have to rebuild each separate blog.

Vincent

-lc-

Sep 8 2003, 07:14 PM

I wanted to post that I have now created a perl script to rebuild all blogs that does browser output!

Yay!

This is due with great thanks to bakken and Timothy Appnel (tima) who's scripts I studied carefully and hacked up a bit...

I'm still making the output pretty and consistant to the mini-rebuild window that MT makes. It can be triggered by a bookmark or by a simple hack to the rebuild_confirm.tmpl template to add a "rebuild ALL blogs"

I'm also encountering a severe browser limitation for realtime output (which is why I suspect the rebuild scripts so far have been shell driven mostly). Seems that server-push technology never came about since IE never supported it. So you get this big pause while it rebuilds, and you get rebuild report at the end. Trying to find a workaround for that.

But if anyone is desperate, I have a MT-REBUILD-ALL.pl immediately available...

-lc-

Sep 9 2003, 07:49 PM

I now have solved the server push problem with some fancy dhtml to do a pull from the cgi. I also have integrated it with the MT rebuild dialog.

If anyone is wanted to beta test this "mt-rebuild-all" script, I think I am ready for some gineau pigs

Works great on the two sites I have tested so far.

see here for more info:
mt-rebuild-all.cgi on MT forums

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