I hate to be the first one to comment on this, given the nature of my comments; but in limited testing I found this script to be fairly useless. I assume it fits how you three work with multiple blogs, but by the time you have MySQL set-up - backing things up by manually visiting bunches of pages and saving them, rather than croning a back-up of the database, seems rather the hard way to go about things.

I also don't have enough users (2 including me) for the most recent posts to have much value to me. I know what was posted where.

My openions are almost certainly affected by the fact that only 1 of my 14 logs resembles a traditional weblog, the others are for fiction or use it as a CMS, rather than a webloging tool.

oh as I bow down! I adore this script and needed it desperatly! I have 17 blogs/sites running off of my MT and I freak out often about backing up. I do full site and database backups each week, but this script only makes things easier on me. Seriously. I am bowing down :)

Crys - I probably should add to the post about the MBS that the intended audience is probably more towards beginner-intermediate levels. I can see where the more advanced user who already knows how to cron backups or has phpmyadmin knowledge might not need this. The nice thing about this is that the pages are actually viewable in a browser after saving for easy viewing or even cutting and pasting to recreate a blog.

That being said, adding some automatic options for saving the pages is something that we would consider adding if we found a good php way to add it into the suite :)

I like being able to see all of the template information at once - useful if I am trying to figure out which template I haven't changed the stylesheet link for! :)

Given the demand on the forums for backing up more than just your entries, and the fact that the general MT user probably doesn't even have access to cron jobs, the Suite is an ideal solution for many users.

While I like the idea of having a backup of my MySQL database, I'm also a visual gal - I like to *see* what's what. And it also makes creating new blogs based on the specs of another blog more simplified as well. Everything in one place, rather than having to check multiple screens in MT when you want to duplicate a setup.

P.S. Any assumptions about how I work with multiple blogs would probably be way off-base. =)

I really like this! It's a great interface for having everything right at my fingertips -- one-click away. Excellent! Thanks for putting this together and providing it to us.

Thanks for the script, it's very useful for me setting up my first website with a few different blogs. What about using gzip on the webserver to pack the templates/content and mailing the file via sendmail to the blog admin?

I like it so far. Thanks for this! I downloaded it when you first released it. I forgot to comment though :)

I would like to see the ability (eventually, for semi advanced users) to add it as a cron job, but for now this does work much better than dealing with an sql backup or relying on individual users to have copies of their own templates ;-)

Something is wrong with my installation. I don't see any list of templates for a blog that I select, and the configuration utility does not create valid blog id numbers so the links don't work.

Thanks, This is most useful for backing up blog configs. No other utilities offer this specific function, even MT-Medic. That alone makes it worth it.

One thing I would like to suggest is some form of Login Utility so other people, spider, etc scoring your site can't stumble across it and get potentially damaging information.

Thomas - I'd love to add some sort of archiving feature; I haven't had time to fully research how to do it yet!

A-M - Girlie noticed this on her server, and I can't seem to figure out why. What browser are you using?

Doc - Thanks for the idea; I think that adding some sort of a login would be good; until we implement something, using htaccess (cpanel's protect directory option) would be a good thing :)

A-M and K: I couldn't see any info in IE, but I don't recall the links actually generating any invalid IDs??

Don't think it's server related: I can't see the Suite for VV either, but B and K can see it just fine.

I'm using IE 5.5. I also loaded the page in Mozilla and have the same problem with not being able to see any info.

The blog IDs are a long string of characters like 163019105 which obviously is not valid. I put "1" in for the default blog ID but even when I try to select other blogs it still has the same long string as blog ID.

Neat script - although it doesn't backup the content of the blog, its useful to backup the config of the blog so its easy to replicate another blog installation and get all the directories correct. One thing to note is that I was unable to install it into the same directory as the mt.cgi file as I'm not allowed to run .php files under my cgi directory.

wow!

I've been using the template backup thing by Brenna for ages, and have been meaning to do something about having a page to generate me a list of all my MT blogs to choose from, to display templates for, rather than me create a page for each blog, and a menu page to choose one.
You did it for me, and lots more!

This is so cool. This is exactly the tool I wanted, and didn't want to have to write myself.

Also, thanks for the heads up on how to use cpanel to password protect the directory. I am still a little overwhelmed by have a virtual unix system to play with.

Will this ever be made to work with the BerkleyDB method instead of MySQL? I see a few MT tools that work with MySQL only, is there a reason why I should be using MySQL instead with my MT blogs? Is it faster/better? TIA

Oops sorry I posted that comment in the wrong post, I just saw multiple blogs and posted it there. Ok here is where it should go. Can't you password protect the index file that leads to all the settings, because I would prefer that to manually protecting it !

I echo -lc's questions/comments from 8.7 and hope to see a response.

Also, I love the way you designed the comments form, with everything right in one small space. Mine is spread all over the place.

Thank you.

That was interesting, there were some error messages that flashed by when I posted my comment. I managed to catch them in a screen capture, if you'd like them.

Multiple Blog Suite could be very useful if it could allow template changes and then save them back to the mysql database.

Then you could do changes across the blogs on all the templates at once since they would all be on the screen. Very handy.

Any chance of this happening in a future version?

This is a really great script, almost exactly what I was looking for. I discovered the MT-Medic cgi through the link on your page, and it does several similar functions. It too, is _almost_ exactly what I was looking for. Too bad that one is perl and the other is php -- the combined features of these two scripts would go a LONG way toward simplifying the task of managing a large multi-author / multi-blog installation.

I'd like to work on combinging them, but I'm not sure whetehr to do it in perl or php. I'm better with php, but given the fact that MT is in perl, it might make more sense to go that route to ensure compatibility with a wider set of users... And then ther is the question about whether you VV folks or Stepan Riha are open to collaboration (I note that neither package is open source / GPL)

After installing the package, I discovered errors on lines 30 & 31 of connect.php.

The variable "$siteurl" could not be found.

This was easily fixed by changing "$siteurl" to "$suiteurl" afterwhich everything was fine.

This is a simply typo in this file.

Worked with no problems