TOPIC: Use {READON_COUNT} on the template

Hi, My name is Ahmad...
That's my first post on Jomcomment forums

I am building a custom Joomla! installation preloaded with all blogging features...
My package will be free for everyone, I am working on it to help Joomla! beginners who want to blog using Joomla but are confused with the # of extensions they have to install.

I choose Jomcomment cause it's easy to work with, very stable and GPL

Take a look at the screenshot I am attaching :

If you see beside the article title, you can find the date and the number of comments on each article ( currently it says 16 ... it's a number I am using till I reach the fix )

I want to insert the # of the comments on that article... How can I do that?
I've tried alot but couldn't reach a solution

PS: I haven't start working on the sidebar yet I am still working on the content area!!!

Best Regards

Hey there! Nice idea.

It is not easy what you are trying to do. But you can write a plugin for the side bar.
There you can make a query to get the numbers of comments.

Hey thanks for the reply
I will see what I can do and post the solution when I reach it!

Regards

I came up with something got me the required result :

$query = "SELECT COUNT(contentid) ";
$query .= "FROM jos_comment ";
$query .= "WHERE contentid = ";
$query .= $this->item->id;
$query .= " AND published=1";
$results = mysql_query($query);
comment = mysql_fetch_array($results);
echo $comment[0];

Is it ok to put a query in the view? the template I mean!
or should I write a plugin ?

Is that sidebar thing part of the template? If so, wouldn't it be easier to use Template MVC?

Is it ok to put a query in the view? the template I mean!
or should I write a plugin ?

If that's what you mean, using MVC (putting it in template/myblogtemplate/html/com_content/frontpage or whatever) then yes it is ok

Just incase though, maybe put an IF in there to check if JoomlaComment is enabled and active, otherwise skip the code - just incase the user wants to disable comments!

Yeah by using the MVC I meant using the file in the template/html/...etc

I will add a parameter to the template configuration to let the user to enable/disable the # of comments then if selected I will use an IF statement to check if Jomcomment exists or not
if not and selected enabled -> display nice warning

Thanks for your help JonusC

Not a problem I not long actually realized the power of the Templating in Joomla 1.5, it's very nice that we can easily customize/over-ride templates to move around practically any component element