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  Daniel Ha

  1 year ago

  Hi inode,
  
  Yup, the unique article identifier is the URL. Each new URL is a different
  thread on Disqus.
  
  Let me know if you need anything.
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  inode

  1 year ago

  The clue is a start, but a slightly targetted example would be better!
  
  This is the blog template code at the moment :-
  
  < div class="posted">
  < br />$template_postedby < span class="item-creator">$NB_EntryAuthor< /span>
  $([ "$PERMALINKS" = "1" ] && echo '| < a class="link" href="'${ARCHIVES_PATH}$NB_EntryPermalink'" rel="nofollow">'$template_permlink'< /a>')
  $([ ! -z "$NB_EntryCategories" ] && echo "| $template_catlinks $NB_EntryCategories" |sed -e '{$ s/\,$//; }')
  < div id="disqus_thread">< /div>< script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/notabene/embed.js">< /script>< noscript>< a href="http://notabene.disqus.com/?url=ref" rel="nofollow">View the forum thread.< /a>< /noscript>
  < /div>
  
  So you can see that the URL of the article itself will be '${ARCHIVES_PATH}$NB_EntryPermalink'
  
  However the Disqus code is purely generated by <script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/notabene/embed.js"></script> and I don't know how to pass parameters into that (I'm not much of a javascript person)
  
  I've grabbed that script, and it seems as if the implied link is coming via :-
  var disqus_href = window.location.href;
  This gets built up into disqus_url, which is passed into thread.js ...
  disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/notabene/thread.js'
  + '?url=' + encodeURI(disqus_url)
  
  
  Do you think I should grab a local copy of embed.js and modify that, instead of using the one hosted on disqus? I don't think that's a good strategy as I'm sure to miss any development work that will go into that script over time ...
  
  Or is there something else I've missed?
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  Jason

  1 year ago

  You can pass the permalink of each post to the script as such:
  
<script type="text/javascript">
  var disqus_url = '$PERMALINK';
</script>
<!-- General JavaScript snippet goes here -->

  One thing I've noticed on your blog is that permalinks anchor to the post, though we ignore anchors for permalinks. You can overcome that if you change the links to a query string when you pass it into disqus_url above. (e.g., set disqus_url to http://nb.inode.co.nz/archives/2007/10/31/index.html?e2007-10-31T11_05_34.txt -- the change I made was replacing '#' with '?' in your permanent link.)
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  inode

  1 year ago

  Yeah, some of the linking is odd -- it basically puts all blog entries from the same day on the same page, hence the anchoring to identify which one you want.
  
  At this stage I think I'll have to 'ignore' this, certainly it isn't disqus' fault :-)
  
  Thanks for that code snippet, now I know what to look for in embed.js I see the whole "if undefined" set of code :-) Some more stuff to play with!
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  inode

  1 year ago

  Thanks for your help -- all working now!
  http://nb.inode.co.nz/archives/2007/11/09/index...
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  Daniel Ha

  1 year ago

  Sweet!
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