I am not a Perl programmer, and it shows with the cluelessness that I display toward some of the quirks of Perl from time to time. However, I use Movable Type, and I find its API to be very interesting. Lately I've been starting to figure out how I would go about writing a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that allows you to replicate at least some of the functionality of a hit counter system similar to SiteMeter. I've got some basic code written and in testing now, and if it works out, here's what I expect would be the first four releases of what I am calling, for lack of a better name, MT Site Monitor:
If I get beyond that, who knows where it might go?
Another thing, I am trying to figure out the legal and technical feasibility of converting over and hosting some good WordPress themes for Movable Type 4. I have limited time and a lot of bias, so if I can get around to this and be in the clear, I think I would keep to just the themes that my wife likes for her blog. Speaking of her blog, she's been using WordPress for some time now due to the themes that it has, and WordPress 2.3 seems to have killed all of her favorite themes. Why am I not surprised?...
**UPDATE** 1/1/2008: It would be just my luck that not only is there a good plug-in which provides much of the functionality that I wanted to implement with MTSiteMonitor, but the author of it would be the guy who helped me on the mt-dev mailing list to figure out how to use the <mtapp:listing> template tag which is vital to displaying tables in Movable Type's framework. What I may do is see if I can add some of the functionality that I want to the VisitorStats plug-in, in the form of a small plug-in that extends on the objects that he wrote. Well, I'm grateful for the help, nonetheless and so in the spirit of doing right by the guy who helped me out, I'm not going to turn his generosity against him by competing with him.
- 0.25 Initial objects are complete and tested. The initial application framework is in place to allow MT Site Monitor to record hits.
- 0.50 Basic ability to view the raw log data from your hit counter.
- 0.75 The ability to designate certain hits as "suspicious," and view them as a separate page from the log viewer.
- 1.00 More advanced views of the hit data.
If I get beyond that, who knows where it might go?
Another thing, I am trying to figure out the legal and technical feasibility of converting over and hosting some good WordPress themes for Movable Type 4. I have limited time and a lot of bias, so if I can get around to this and be in the clear, I think I would keep to just the themes that my wife likes for her blog. Speaking of her blog, she's been using WordPress for some time now due to the themes that it has, and WordPress 2.3 seems to have killed all of her favorite themes. Why am I not surprised?...
**UPDATE** 1/1/2008: It would be just my luck that not only is there a good plug-in which provides much of the functionality that I wanted to implement with MTSiteMonitor, but the author of it would be the guy who helped me on the mt-dev mailing list to figure out how to use the <mtapp:listing> template tag which is vital to displaying tables in Movable Type's framework. What I may do is see if I can add some of the functionality that I want to the VisitorStats plug-in, in the form of a small plug-in that extends on the objects that he wrote. Well, I'm grateful for the help, nonetheless and so in the spirit of doing right by the guy who helped me out, I'm not going to turn his generosity against him by competing with him.
