Support for threaded comments

[jenstornell]

Like nested comments.

[florianpircher]

Threaded comments are currently not supported, but once custom fields (see #23) are supported you will be able to implement replies using a custom reply-to field which stores the ID of the comment you are replying to. I will add an nestByField() method for more convenience in the front-end.

// custom comment rendering code:
function renderComment($comment) {
  echo $comment->message();

  if ($comment->hasNestedComments()) {
    foreach ($comment->nestedComments() as $child) {
      renderComment($child);
    }
  }
}

// nest comment by custom field
$nestedComments = $page->comments()->nestByField('reply-to');

foreach ($nestedComments as $comment) {
  renderComment($comment);
}

[florianpircher]

Comment nesting has been implemented and tested. Shipping soon with v1.5.

[florianpircher]

Version 1.5.0 is live and on master. You can try out nested comments on the demo page.

[florianpircher]

For more info have a look at

• the new $comments->nestByField() method and
• the new NestedComment class.

[mciszczon]

Could you please take a look at your demo page for nested comments? It's only showing the Kirby's debug screen (which is not very safe on a public server, by the way).

And while we're at it: documentation on nesting comments is almost non-existent, I can't seem to get it to work. Would it be possible to extend it or at least get a source code of your demo? Then I could figure it out.

Thanks.

[florianpircher]

Thank you for reporting the Kirby debug screen! The error has now been fixed (PHP 7.2 comparability issue) and will be included in the next release.

You can download a minimal version of the demo page as an example snippet from the Replies demo-page (https://kirby-comments.addpixel.net/demos/replies) and enable it by adding the following code to your config.php:

c::set('comments.custom-fields', array(
    array('name' => 'reply-to')
));

Nested comments are implemented using Custom Fields and the NestedComment class. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask them.