rah_comments // Pagination for comments

jsanto · 2009-03-04 18:25:59

Thanks for this excellent plugin.

FYI, made improvement appending an anchor (#comment) to page links. When used with appropriate placed “name” tag, this causes page links to jump to the comments, rather than the top of the article.

For example, this:

$number[] = doTag($i,'a','page-'.$i,' href="'.permlink(array()).$sep.'pg='.$i.'"');

becomes this:

$number[] = doTag($i,'a','page-'.$i,' href="'.permlink(array()).$sep.'pg='.$i.'#comment"');

colak · 2009-10-19 13:35:50

I’m helping some friends and I am trying to implement this plugin for their pages.

At the moment this is what they have a comments comment form to display the comments:

<h3 class="commenttitle"><txp:comment_name /> said,</h3>
<p class="commentmeta"><txp:comment_time /> <txp:comment_permlink>#</txp:comment_permlink></p>
<txp:comment_message />

Maybe I’m thinking about this all wrong as I never used the txp:comments tag.
What would the replacement code be so as to allow pagination of their comments?

Last edited by colak (2009-10-19 14:12:26)

THE BLUE DRAGON · 2009-10-19 15:06:13

colak
the code you post here has nothing to do with this plugin
you just post here the comments style txp-form

you need to add the plugin code to the article-form that include the commenting-form

for example:

<txp:title />
<br /><txp:body />
<txp:if_comments_allowed>
<br />add a comment:
<txp:comments_preview form="comment_preview" />
<txp:comments_form form="comment_form" />
<txp:rah_comments form="comments" limit="10" />
</txp:if_comments_allowed>

colak · 2009-10-19 16:25:13

Thanks Gil,

Got it! One problem, even with the code above the comments still appear on the same page like so:

1-30 page links
1-10 comments
1-30 page links
1-600 comments

How do I get them to paginate?

Last edited by colak (2009-10-19 16:28:25)

Gocom · 2009-10-19 16:33:52

colak wrote:

How do I get them to paginate?

By using the tag, <txp:rah_comments /> instead of the standard <txp:comments />. That’s it. There is nothing more to do or change.

If it doesn’t work, atleast post the code your using or tag trace. My 2cents; you’re probably just using auto-append, plus the code itself in article context. If you are using <txp:rah_comments />, or any other comment tag straight inside article form, please turn auto-appending off. That way you do not end up with double comment listing. Alternatively, use the code inside comment_display form.

It sounds that the plugin itself is working just fine. It outputs limited amount of comments and pagination links. And probably the pagination also works.

Last edited by Gocom (2009-10-19 16:40:59)

colak · 2009-10-20 06:26:08

Gocom wrote:

turn auto-appending off. That way you do not end up with double comment listing.

bingo , thanks Jukka!

thebombsite · 2009-12-16 21:47:59

Is there any chance of having an “active” class for the current page number link?

roelof · 2010-03-01 09:31:46

Hello Gocom,

I have a little problem.

Can I have all the comments in one class instead of every comment wrapped in a class ?

Roelof

Last edited by roelof (2010-03-01 09:34:51)

roelof · 2010-03-06 18:25:44

Hello Gocom,

I still have one problem.
I have 18 comments total but <comments_count> gives 19.
So the pagination is 10 instead of 9.

Do you know why this happens ?

Roelof

jan · 2010-07-18 22:34:41

Hey,

Plugin was just what I needed, comments were breaking out of my design!

I have one suggestion: adding an attribute to control wheter or not the current page number is displayed as a link or as plain text.
It’s usually more helpful to display the current page as plain text, since it gives the user a direct indication of current page.

It requires two extra lines of code:

Extra attribute (put in below line 32)

'link_to_current' => 0,

Extra if clause to output either plaint text or link (replace line 50 with this longer version)

$number[] = (($link_to_current && $pg == $i) || $pg != $i) ? doTag($i,'a','page-'.$i,' href="'.permlink(array()).$sep.'pg='.$i.'"') : $i;

Cheers!

Gocom · 2010-07-18 23:38:28

Thank you for sharing, Jan :-)

colak · 2010-09-07 07:55:52

is there a way to NOT have the pagination links when there is just one page of comments?

ps. Jukka, you may want to update the original post so as to state the latest 0.4 version of the plugin.

Last edited by colak (2010-09-07 08:18:25)

Gocom · 2010-09-07 10:16:33

colak wrote:

ps. Jukka, you may want to update the original post so as to state the latest 0.4 version of the plugin.

Thanks, Yiannis. Done.

is there a way to NOT have the pagination links when there is just one page of comments?

Is. From the docs:

showalways
Always show page number links, even if there is only a one page.
Default: showalways="1" (yes) Example: "" (no).

Following should work:

<txp:rah_comments showalways="0" />

Last edited by Gocom (2010-09-07 10:17:05)

colak · 2010-09-07 10:20:31

Gocom wrote:

From the docs:

I’m blind as a bat! Thanks Jukka

milosevic · 2011-02-16 22:54:39

Hello:

first of all, nice plugin! but I can’t use because it don’t recognizes de URL of my comments article page. It is not a error or bug, I explain:

At one site I’m spliting de article page in to different “pages”:

mysite.com/myarticle : an article wich shows its title, excerp, body… and only the 3 recent comments posted on the article.
mysite.com/myarticle?x=comments : with this param, the page show only the complete comments list on the article.

I want to use rah_comments in the comments version of the article page mysute.com/myarticle?x=comments, but the pagination bottons generated by rah_comments links allways to mysite.com/myarticle?pg=2 (3,4…) so I suposse it assumes that it is allways used on the normal article page (and it is a normal behavior, but fails in my case) Maybe if the plugin do not asumes where is it used and looked to the actual URL of the page, everythink will runs ok.

I know it is a nos usual use of comments, but I think that improve de plugin at this point will make it powerfull and don’t becomes it more complicated to the user.

Another improvement will be set de page 1 link go to “current page” (now articles permlink) without “?pg=1”. because it create duplicated content: two URLs serving de same information.

Last edited by milosevic (2011-02-16 23:10:04)

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