Add count option for article comments to be used on frontpanel and category pages

[Bopske]

Not an issue, but a question. I added the comments counter on article pages in this commit. https://github.com/Tinyportal/TinyPortal/pull/588/commits/4b00dd78a631ab7d10b28b59842c203f0b6a395b

In order to also show the comment counter on the frontpage and the category views we would need a function that counts the comments per articles there too. I did not manage to get that working. Tino, would you be willing to add that in?

[tinoest]

            $tpArticle  = TPArticle::getInstance();
            $articles   = $tpArticle->getArticle($aposts);

returns the number of comments along with all the other article data.

If you just want the article comments then you can call this.

            $tpArticle  = TPArticle::getInstance();
            $tpArticle->getArticleData('comments', array( 'id' => $article_id));

I don't know where you want it added so thought it best to give you examples.

[Bopske]

Thanks, I’ll have a look maybe I need some more directions. If so I’ll ask here ...

[Bopske]

Did some digging, but I am sorry, this exceeds my coding skills.

What I want is to use the $context['TPortal']['article_comments_count'] here to be populated also when on the Frontpage or Category view. (If that gets populated I can sort out the display in the template)

File: TPsubs.template.php, function article_comments_total

That must be populated from TPortal.php: function doTPfrontpage() and function doTPcat() these do not provide the 'article_comments_count' to the context. So I assume this function should go in there, but how and where...

This is the function that I think should be called from Base.php: public function getArticleComments($user_id, $item_id) {{{ return parent::getComments('1', $user_id, $item_id); }}}

I am sorry: I just lack the coding skills, so unless you can add it in in the right place we'll have to do without...

[tinoest]

Adding $context['TPortal']['article_comments_count'] doesn't make anything show on the front page. I can do that easily enough for each article, it just does nothing?

The functions you want for the comment count are the two I posted above, the one you put gets all the comments for that article. Or is that what you want?

[tinoest]

I "think" what you wanted to do is this.

function article_comments_total($render = true)
{
    global $scripturl, $txt, $context;

    $data = '';

    if(in_array('comments', $context['TPortal']['article']['visual_options']) && (isset($context['TPortal']['article']['comments']))) {
        $data = '
        <span class="article_comments">' .  $txt['tp-comments'] . ':  ' . $context['TPortal']['article']['comments'] . '</span>';
    }
    elseif(in_array('comments', $context['TPortal']['article']['visual_options']) && (empty($context['TPortal']['article']['comments']))) {
        $data = '
        <span class="article_comments"><a href="' . $scripturl . '?page=' . (!empty($context['TPortal']['article']['shortname']) ? $context['TPortal']['article']['shortname'] : $context['TPortal']['article']['id']) . '">' . $txt['tp-comments'] . '</a></span>';
    }

    if($render) {
        echo $data;
    }   
    else {
        return $data;
    }   
}   

[Bopske]

What I want do do is make the comment count information available to show for each article, both on the article page (page=xx) as on the category pages (cat=yy) and when an article is on the frontpage.

I cannot describe it any clearer than that.. I am sorry, but it is a bit frustrating not being able to explain better...

I got it to show on the article page

But not on the cat page and the frontpage: simply because the "comment counter" is not availabe there...

[tinoest]

I think the code I just posted does that on the front page? Although I liked having the link there myself.

[Bopske]

Let me try yout code: it did not seem that much different from what I had, maybe I missed something...

[Bopske]

I must be a complete pain in the ... your code was exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why I did not get that working in the first place. I must have been blind or something...

[tinoest]

I must be a complete pain in the ... your code was exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why I did not get that working in the first place. I must have been blind or something...

Not a pain at all, I was just confused with what you were trying to do when the data was already there. I thought I was missing something obvious.

[Bopske]

I am afraid I was (confused that is): I was so much focussing on using the variable $context['TPortal']['article_comments_count'] that I completely missed that variable $context['TPortal']['article']['comments'] was readily available with exactly the information is needed...