TOPIC: use menu item to activate write comment

Can I set up post a comment on a user menu so that when an article is open I can select that menu item to open the post a new comment?

Can you try to explain this again?

I'll try. I've set up a user menu for login, registration, etc, including a item for submitting an article. To this I would like to add an item for posting a comment. Then when a user reads any article they can simply click on this menu item at any time to make a comment to that article. I'm not using any sections or categories; everything is an article. Any better? I new at this so not sure what is the correct words to use.

tks,

MLS

Hmm...

1. You want a "Write Comment" to be a seperate button that is not attatched to the Article footer, but rather in it's own menu item
2. It would load a new page with the 'Write Comment' form that somehow knows which article to put it on (possibly via referer string check or a cookie..? I don't know)

...sorry but I think that's kind of unrealistic for us to do

Not surprised. When I click add a new item to a menu the select new item type screen appears and the intenal link has an item for !joomlacomment. What does adding that type to a menu enable me to do? If I go ahead and add a new item of the !joolmacomment type to a menu then select it, the content part of my page goes blank. So it appears to me that it does nothing, unless of course I have something configured wrong--which is very possible.

Merrill

Hey you've got an interesting point. It's just that JoomlaComment is still essentially based on a very old Joomla 1.0 extension that's basically been hacked and updated and added onto to work with 1.5 well no it's not that bad. My point is that the only reason why it's an unrealistic feature right now is because Daniel is working on a nearly-total rewrite. But we're still in the Beta phase for v4, and v4 was only originally designed to be JoomlaComment v3 updated for Joomla 1.5 native. But he's added lots of features as the users wished for them too do I make sense there?

Anyway, I actually have no idea what the Component menu item choice does. It's probably just always there for every Joomla Component, and when we choose it via Menu there's just nothing programmed for it. So maybe in a future it can do something fancy

We'll have to get Daniel's feedback on this one of course - i'm not the developer here just a housekeeper But I thought i'd chuck in my two cents!

P.S. Not quite the same thing, but something I would like to work on is an option to move the Comment form to a DHTML popup window or something (probably in the new wave of templates i'm working on) which is similar, only it wont be on a Menu Item - just a button below the article.

Button in an article was what I looked for first, without success. Your reply makes sense. I'll just put a {joscommentenable} where ever I want to allow a comment.

thanks for your help.

Merrill

Merrill Sanders wrote:

Button in an article was what I looked for first, without success.

Maybe if you experiment with the Article > Blog View layout in Joomla content settings you can get a little closer?

I'll just put a {joscommentenable} where ever I want to allow a comment.

WHOA. You completely spun me out there, I never heard of that tag! I searched the forums and found out that it's hidden in the Plugin settings as it's only option... geez that's handy! I'll remember that for the documentation/FAQ

I'll do some experimenting with that. I'm new to joomla so it could take me some time. I'm also new to php and css and that stuff. My training is way old--basic, pascal, fortran; years ago. I"m overwhelmed by all the stuff being used now days. Do appreciate your comments.

Merrill