Rating & Comment

Hi,
i understand that rating is included in the plugin.

may i know what abt comment? how can i add the comment under the rating? or i need to d/l a extension?

Inside your template folder, edit the file item.php (it creates the html of each item):
e.g.
components/com_flexicontent/templates/mytemplate/item.php

FIND the code that creates the comments: Find the template position that you have inserted the ratings field (the field name is voting) and then move the above code just after the lines
Finally alter the line: to:

hi , i installed jcomments
do i still need to put these code in?

No, the changes were just if you want the comments to appear in page in a different place (bellow ratings), otherwise make no changes and comments will appear at the bottom.

Don't forget to enable comments in FLEXIcontent's Global Configuration, and then you can toggle this setting on/off per category (in the category parameters)

On this note, how would I (1) show and (2) expand commments by default in the category view? I need all comments showing without any clicks, but am yet to find ONE commenting solution that allows it. I have category comments on, and I also have the global comments on. No comments showing at all.

Thanks!

To make it expand you could call the javascript that is on the onclick event when the page finishes loading.

For example to make open the comment submit form
Put the following in the item.php of your template

<?php
$opencomments_js = "
var box = {};
window.addEvent('domready', function(){
jcomments.showForm(".$this->item->id.",'com_flexicontent', 'comments-form-link');
});
";
$document
$document->addScriptDeclaration($opencomments_js);
?>

The comments are not displayed in category view, the setting you say is meant to be inherited by items for their item view.

Regards

Thanks for this, great stuff. I will implement this in a second as its halfway to getting where I need.

But, back to the original question though, is there absolutely no way to have the comments showing on category view? Can I hack the category view page and add the comment code manually? Its a requirement not an option for me, it needs to work just like Facebook's wall, displaying topics + comments all fully expanded. Like I say I'm yet to find anything that can do this; and really really want to continue using flexicontent on this site as its otherwise perfect for my needs.

Thank you for such a wonderful component!

John

Some improvements about integration with jcomments are planned.

About what you ask for category view and comments per item

why don't you just copy the code from item.php to the category_items.php and test ?
I altered above the $this->item->id to be $item->id,
so be sure to place this code inside the
Be careful how you place it inside the loop, e.g. the default template uses a table, if you don't form the table properly the comments will appear outside the table or your page will break completely !!!

Regards

Ohhh man you are a LEGEND!!

I am going to get straight on this now (backing up first, of course!).

I will post you the finished result if you like. If it works, maybe it can be a nice feature for a future release - as I said, there is not one other component that can do this out of the box, so it could be a nice ace up your sleeve!

SO HAPPY! )

Kindest regards,

John

ggppdk that was some reply man, thank yo so much again!

Its all working - exactly how I visualised it!

I just need to add some sort of real-time comment watching/loading (like facebook) and a bit of drag and drop positioning, and I have the exact solution I was looking for! The post/comment Mechanics are perfect

I'm pretty sure I can grab some off-the-shelf scripts for - drag and drop layouts
- collapsible areas
and incorporate them, now I know where I'm looking.

I modified components/com_flexicontent/templates/blog/category_items.php

This file is attached.

Woo hoo!