Comments Module

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:54 am

Very nice distro guys, I've had that "Kid at Christmas" feeling all day, playing with my new toys Smile

I noticed in the "Comments" Module there was a category for forum comments.. Took a look around and don't see how to make a "comment" on the forums... Am I not looking in the right place, missing something totally obvious, or did the attachment mod over-write something?

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

I enjoyed your "Kid at Christmas" comment in this forum. Wait...that makes it a forum comment (pun intended). Guardian can confirm, but I think the idea is to provide a single function for reviewing all comments - including forum posts - made by a user to eliminate comment spam.

registered · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:35 am

Right, that label is just generic to the module. When in forums, it means latest forum posts...

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:27 am

ahh, I see how it works now... Smile

I thought it might be something like a "is this post helpful" kind of thing....
and did you guys changes the donation module on this site? Instead of posting my username it listed the name associated with my paypal acct... ?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:00 am

We generally don't make those kinds of changes - maybe Raven can address that.

Regular Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 79

The comments module only shows the username, article subject and the timestamp. How can I show the first few words of the actual comment posted?

Thanks.

registered · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:09 pm

You'd have to modify the SQL for all types of modules it supports to retrieve some of the text and then display it along with the other stuff. You'd have to touch the *Form.php files.

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:33 pm

That sounds fun... Sad

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:22 am

Is that something we want to add?

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:31 am

I think that it would be a nice-to-have and patterned off kguske's Box Over script? (kguske, is that what its called that you use for nukeFEED/PIE?)

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:39 am

That would work. Yes, BoxOver is what we used with nukeFEED for popup help and nukePIE for popup RSS text.

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:27 pm

Now you mention it, that could be quite handy.