further improvements, make more portable

config.toml

@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ extensions = [ "hardLineBreak" ]
   Mastodon      = "mastodon.social/@mxmehl"
   Diaspora      = "diasp.eu/u/mxmehl"
 
+[params.mastodoncomments]
+  user    = "https://mastodon.social/users/mxmehl"
+  regex   = '/\/?blog\/\d\d\d\d\/.+$/'
+  contact = "/contact/"
+
 ## Main Menu
 [[menu.main]]
   name = "start"

themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/layouts/partials/comments.html

@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
     <div id="comments"></div>
     <div class="clear"></div>
     <div id="reference"></div>
-    <!--<p class="reference"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/bjoern/statuses/{{ .Params.toot }}">Join the discussion on Mastodon!</a></p>-->
 </div>
 
-<script>var MastodonTootId="{{ .Params.toot }}"</script>
 <script>var RelPermalink="{{ .RelPermalink }}"</script>
+<script>var MastodonUser="{{ .Site.Params.mastodoncomments.user }}"</script>
+<script>var BlogRegex="{{ .Site.Params.mastodoncomments.regex }}"</script>
+<script>var CommentsContact="{{ .Site.Params.mastodoncomments.contact }}"</script>

themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
         url: "/comments/getcomments.php",
         type: "get",
         data: {
-            search : RelPermalink
+            search : "https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190326-01.html"
         },
         success: function(data) {
             var stats = data.stats;

themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.php

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ $search = isset($_GET['search']) ? $_GET['search'] : '';
 /* cache files */
 $dbt = "cache-toots.json";
 
+/* Exit if search empty */
+if (empty($search)) {
+  out("No proper search given");
+  die();
+}
+
 /* MISC FUNCTIONS */
 function out($data) {
   error_log("[getcomments.php] " . print_r($data, TRUE));
@@ -47,6 +53,7 @@ if (!empty($toots['0']['id'])) {
 } else {
   /* if cached toots do not exist, start from oldest toot */
   $min_id = "0";
+  $min_id_cached = "0";
 }
 
 
@@ -92,11 +99,12 @@ if ($min_id !== $min_id_cached) {
 /* check if URL from $search exists in $toots */
 // if multiple exist, take the oldest one (highest array position)
 $id = array_keys(array_column($toots, 'url'), strtolower($search));
+if (empty($id)) {
+  out("Blog URL \"$search\" has not been found");
+  die();
+}
 $id = $toots[end($id)]['id'];
-// TODO: graceful exit if no toot exists
 
-
-$id = "102955148581768112"; // TODO test
 /* Extract comments and stats from toot */
 $result = ['comments' => [], 'stats' => ['reblogs' => 0, 'favs' => 0, 'replies' => 0, 'url' => '', 'root' => 0]];