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#1 2006-09-09 19:33:45

Rachel Rachel

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Registered: 2004-09-24

Posts: 28

help with displaying comments

this is how i want my comments form to look —

if the author enters a URL, their name will be a link to the URL.
if the author enters only an e-mail address, their name will just be text (no mailto: or anything).

name and e-mail are required.

this is the closest i can get:
<a href="<txp:comment_web />"><txp:glx_thiscomment key="name" /></a>

(the glx_thiscomment plugin extracts only the name instead of comment_name which automatically makes it a link)

but because some people enter http:// in front of their url and some don’t, it doesn’t really work.

any ideas? i feel like this is something obvious and simple but i just can’t see it.

thanks.

#2 2006-09-09 23:39:16

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: help with displaying comments

Rachel Rachel wrote:

if the author enters a URL, their name will be a link to the URL.
if the author enters only an e-mail address, their name will just be text (no mailto: or anything).

name and e-mail are required.

This is the default behaviour, if you have the settings in admin > advanced preferences like this:

• Comments require user name? Yes
• Comments require user email? Yes
• Never display email? Yes

txp:comment_name will output only the name if no url is entered, and otherwise the name will be a link to the author’s url.

but because some people enter http:// in front of their url and some don’t, it doesn’t really work.

Using http:// as the label for the url field (it is in the default ‘comment_form’ form) will usually restrain commenters from entering this again.

Last edited by els (2006-09-09 23:41:50)

#3 2006-09-11 21:43:07

Rachel Rachel

Member

Registered: 2004-09-24

Posts: 28

Re: help with displaying comments

okay, i feel like a ‘tard. i missed that ‘never display email’ thing. thanks!