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Manual Trackback

20 July 2003, 11 pm | Weblogging

Inspired by Adam Kalsey’s SimpleTrack, I wrote my own PHP script called Manual Trackback. (To be honest, I was chicken to ask Mr. Kalsey for a copy of his script.) This script allows an author of a weblog that does not support trackback to manually trackback to my weblog. All this weblog author needs to supply is the title of his or her weblog, the title or date of his or her weblog entry, the entry’s URL, and an excerpt. That’s it. Then their trackback will be listed among the comments and other trackbacks for my entry with a link pointing back to his or her weblog.

The Manual Trackback script is completely customizable to your weblog if you know a little CSS and HTML). It should work for other weblog systems besides Movable Type as long as they stick with the trackback specifications.

There is one PHP include required for this script to run. It is an open-source PHP class called Snoopy. You can download a copy of Snoopy from SourceForge.net. (Thanks to Mr. Kalsey for the hint.)

See the Manual Trackback script. Documentation is included within the script.

What is trackback? It is a system used “to enhance cross-site conversations and build community.” You can learn more about trackbacks at A Beginner’s Guide to TrackBack.

See also Trackbacks & Comments.

Trackbacks

  1. BlogRoot's BlogPopuli trackbacky thing and manual trackback pinging. I really need to get out more on Saturday nights.

    ∼ πλ · 26 July 2003, 3 pm · at Neil's World ¬

Comments

  1. Wonderful. Thank you. I’ve been slogging through a Trackback form implementation for our new group site, tarheelbloggers.org. You’re script comes closest to simplifying the process, although a tutorial for non-programming bloggers like myself would be very useful. I’ll try Manual Trackback straight away.

    ∼ πλ · 21 July 2003, 10 am · by Anton Zuiker ¬

  2. I don’t understand one thing… with only linking to the manual-tb.php file from the trackback template you get all the info needed and just fill out the form and everything’s done?

    As Anton Zuiker, I need a little bit more help.

    Anyway, it’s great you posted the script, no one else did it on the net!

    ∼ πλ · 4 October 2003, 8 pm · by El Fer ¬

  3. I’ve been using this script for a while now but one thing has struck me, and that’s its potential for abuse. At the moment, with the right parameters, the form can be used to ping any blog, not just those on the same domain.

    Is there any chance of modifying the script such that it will only ping weblogs on the same domain/IP address as where the script is located? I don’t want spammers coming along and using my site as a trackback spam relay. Requiring a referer that references the same site would also help.

    ∼ πλ · 20 January 2004, 7 am · by Neil T. ¬

  4. Thee best bloggg

    ∼ πλ · 20 February 2004, 9 am · by Creno ¬

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