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#1 2006-05-29 21:48:13

eoin

Member

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 10

Comments on static pages

Hi,

I’m trying to get comments to display on a static page.

In the txp admin area I’ve got:
Publish – Accept Comments = yes
Comments – On by default = yes
Comments – Automatically append comments to articles? = yes

For the article itself the comments are set to on.

The page template has:
<code>
<txp:article limit=1 form=“static_article”/>
<txp:output_form form=“comments_display”/>
</code>

Where static_article is:
<code>
<h3><txp:title /></h3>
<txp:body />
</code>

Where comments_display form is the txp default:
<code>
<txp:if_comments_preview>
<txp:comments />
<txp:if_comments_allowed>
<txp:comments_form />
</txp:if_comments_allowed>
</code>

The comments aren’t appearing though. I’m basically trying to create a testimonials page – for customers to leave some feedback.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Eoin

#2 2006-05-29 22:43:19

maniqui

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2004-10-10

Posts: 3,070

Website

Re: Comments on static pages

Hi!

You have to call the comments_display form from within an article form.

For more info about this, check this FAQ: comment display confusion.

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#3 2006-05-30 00:41:28

eoin

Member

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 10

Re: Comments on static pages

Hi,

I turned off “Automatically append etc. etc”

I created a form called guestbook_intro of type article with the following in it:
<code>
<h3><txp:title /></h3>
<txp:body />
<txp:comments />
<txp:comments_form />
</code>

This was then included in a page as:
<code> <txp:article limit=1 form=“guestbook_intro”/>
</code>

It’s progress – I get the comments form. But it’s got no submit button (the comments_form is the txp default and has the markup for it). When I press the preview button I the form disappears and no preview appears in its place.

I thought that trying to view the comments to an article when viewing the page
as http://sitename/Testimonials was a loser – so I put back the permlink to the article :
<code>
<h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
<txp:body />
<txp:comments />
<txp:comments_form />
</code>

Then clicked on the permlink. Slightly better behaviour – the form doesn’t disappear when I click on the preview button. It just goes to the top of the page – above the article text. Still no submit button. No sign of any comments in the txp mysql database.

A bit stumped and must sleep now!

Eoin

#4 2006-05-30 03:36:03

Mary

Sock Enthusiast

Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: Comments on static pages

There’s several mistakes through here. I’m not sure what you’re using now, so I’ll just comment on these.

<txp:output_form form="comments_display"/>

If you have comment auto-append turned on, then you don’t use that. The contents of comments_display are then automatically added to the end of your article.

If you want comment auto-append off, then you can do the following:

<txp:if_individual_article>
	<txp:article limit="1" />
	<txp:article limit="1" form="comments_display" />
</txp:if_individual_article>

Next, your contents of comments display are incorrect. You had:

Where comments_display form is the txp default:

<txp:if_comments_preview>
<txp:comments />
<txp:if_comments_allowed>
<txp:comments_form />
</txp:if_comments_allowed>

Which means both your comments and your comment form would only show up during a comment preview.