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Who’s Talking? Pepper for Mint

Who's Talking? PepperWell, I said I was going to try my hand at creating a Pepper for Mint, and I did it much quicker than I thought I would. It’s called Who’s Talking?, and it hooks directly into the ExpressionEngine backend of my site to pull in information about the latest comments on my site.

Each row displays the author’s name and IP, a link to the entry they commented on and a relative date when they made the comment. If you click on a row, it will expand to show you a snippet of their comment, and an exact date it was made.

It also utilizes Rick’s brand spankin’ new IP-to-Nation additions to ExpressionEngine to get the country flags.

All-in-all, Shaun’s made it very easy to create Peppers for Mint. I’ve already got other ideas for EE-based Peppers. I might make another one this weekend.

If anyone has ideas for an EE-centric Pepper, let me know. I’m beginning to think selling Mint as a stats package to clients with EE-based sites could be a cool combination. There could be some really great ways to display all that data.

Version 0.6: I’ve reworked the backend quite a bit. It now uses plugins, so that means that others can write plugins for WordPress or TextPattern if they want. If any brave soul wants to try and write a plugin, leave a comment and I’ll get you rolling.

Keithz's gravatar Keithz Germany January 13, 2006

Wow! Looks like a really interesting Pepper for my EE sites…
Keep up the good work!

leslie's gravatar leslie United States January 13, 2006

that’s awesome Chris. I’m going to give this a whirl.

karsten's gravatar karsten Germany January 14, 2006

the local search plugin from mint is not working with ee. perhaps an idea? wink

Chris's gravatar Chris United States January 14, 2006

Yeah, I was thinking of hooking into EE’s search logs with the next one. Any particular kind of associated data you wanted to see with it?

karsten's gravatar karsten Germany January 14, 2006

no, yet it does not work. when it would be work a little bit then it is ok for me wink

karsten's gravatar karsten Germany January 14, 2006

a complete other question: is it possible, that you can share your way how to insert your comments into the rss feed?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States January 14, 2006

There’s a good tutorial on how to do it here. In fact, the EEWiki in general is a very good place to look when you’re wanting to do some customization.

karsten's gravatar karsten Germany January 14, 2006

thxs

Sarah Tran's gravatar Sarah Tran United States January 17, 2006

I know that I never just stumble onto something by accident or it’s just plain coincidental.

I am in the process of getting my business together and might have usage of your service in the future. Let me know how I can get in touch with you regarding future business.

Sarah

Alex's gravatar Alex United Kingdom February 20, 2006

This looks really good. I have been using EE for a long while now, and since yesterday Mint is taking care of my stat needs as well. Any chance to download and use / test this pepper? Or am I missing the “click here to download” link?

ps> I have noticed that there is no obvious way to contact you from your site. Might be me just not seeing it though.

Betty's gravatar Betty United States April 13, 2006

I just got started with Mint this morning and would love to use your Who’s Talking? Pepper on my EE site. Any chance you’ll offer it up for download again?? Pretty please??

Chris's gravatar Chris United States April 13, 2006

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at the code. I know it needs some spit-shining. I’ll go over it again soon and send you a copy.

Betty's gravatar Betty United States April 13, 2006

Super! Thanks so much, I’m really looking forward to it. smile

eric's gravatar eric United States May 3, 2006

I’d love to give this a shot on my txp-powered site. smile

GreekGoddess's gravatar GreekGoddess United States July 15, 2006

I’d love to use this one too on my EE smile

karsten's gravatar karsten Germany July 16, 2006

any chance to download the plugin?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 16, 2006

You guys should probably download and try out the Blog Comments pepper. It does what mine does, but is easier to setup.

GreekGoddess's gravatar GreekGoddess United States July 16, 2006

the thing is that I have tried Blog Comments but it doesn’t work with EE really well. The “when” part is always off and in general it has issues smile

cavemonkey50's gravatar cavemonkey50 United States July 16, 2006

GreekGoddess, I haven’t really looked at EE support since no one has requested it yet. Now that I know you’re looking for Blog Comments to work with Expression Engine, I’ll see what I can do to add support for it.

GreekGoddess's gravatar GreekGoddess United States July 16, 2006

cavemonkey.. you can find on your comments (the ones at blog comments post) mine about the issues I had with previous version. Your advice was to wait for the newest one.. I did and now I have even more issues. Thank you very much for looking into it smile

cavemonkey50's gravatar cavemonkey50 United States July 16, 2006

Would you mind contacting me from the Contact page on my site? I don’t want to flood Chris’ comments with technical support.

GreekGoddess's gravatar GreekGoddess United States July 16, 2006

will do. Thanks to both of you smile

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