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I have the comments working well and configured to my liking. My problem started with the addition of the avatar/gravatar plug-in. I've had a lot of difficulty finding support for the plug-in, though I did finally find a manual. Since yvolk is credited in helping with the extension, and the two extensions are used together, I thought I could find an answer here, or be pointed in the right direction to find some help.

I'm using Joomla default template. When I turn on the Avatars, the front page looks correct, and the page with the article and comments on it looks correct. But menus point to Sections and the Section and Category pages look terrible. Comments are off on the Section and Category pages because they are just menu items that point to articles, where comments are enabled. But several gravatars are appearing at the top of these pages. I don't want any avatars on those pages. If I turn off "Avatars next to the header of article (for guests)" The section and category pages look good UNTIL I log in. It appears that selection turns off the guests seeing the avatars rather than turning off avatars of articles submitted by guests.

Right now I have gravatar on for comments, off for articles. If you look at my site, Home page, any of the links on the TOP menu, and the article "Raising Kids" (the only article with comments) these look good. Then log in using username: test3 Password: test3. Now revisit these same pages. The home page looks good and the article page looks good. But the top menus which link to sections look terrible. How can I fix this? I've tried giving Css control to the plug-in and to the template, and trying different templates, but it always looks the same. I've tried reading up on Advanced template techniques, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for, so maybe that isn't the right answer either.

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Hello!
Thanks for your great job!
Here is the italian language .ini updated to the latest 1.23.000 yvcomment version.
Hope this helps your project

Alberto

I read in another thread (viewtopic.php?p=1786046#p1786046 around paragraph 9) that Joomla! 1.6 will contain a built-in comments system (donated by JXtended). Honestly, I thought that the team would have opted for yvComment as it is one of the best comments systems availble (in my view at least ). Yuri, does that mean that with the release of Joomla! 1.6, development on will cease? I sincerely hope not.

I have just taken on a client using Joomla 1.5.2 with yvComment 1.2.1 (I think that was it)

I upgraded Joomla to 1.5.14 this morning and discovered yvComment needed upgrading after the fact. I uninstalled then installed yvComment 1.23 and ran into the same problem reported by others:
"This content item (id=n; title='x') is Comment (yvComment thinks so...)), but it has no parent Article (its parentid=0)."

The problem is: all of the comments posted in the old version use the same Section/Category as existing articles. If I follow the standard instructions and set up a new Section/Category for yvComment and assign those in the Plugin Manager settings, the error message disappears, but so do the existing comments. They no longer show up in either the admin Component list, nor on the public view of individual articles.

After much trial and error, I found that if I manually change the Section/Category assigned to comments in Article Manager, they do start showing up in both the admin Component list and on regular pages. Is there any easier way to do this?

Also, I have not begun testing adding a new comment. What surprises might I find there?

Doing this, however, also wipes out the original author's name and replaces it with my admin user id. All comments were posted as "guest" and the poster's name shows up in the Alias field of Article Manager, but that is not what shows on the web page. It doesn't matter if I choose Name or Username in the "Author mentioned by" plugin setting--my admin ID still shows.

It is too late to back all this out so I have to make this work. I can go into phpMyAdmin and forcibly change records if it comes down to that, but please tell me where and to what.

Please tell me how I can get the poster's name showing as the comment author.

I have the same problem so I wiil try to do what you suggest... let's see if it works for me too but if there would be an easier solution... would be wonderful!!

Thanks :-)

Hi I tried to try this solution for changing date format in yvcomment 1.23.0 but the result was the string DATE_FORMAT_LC4 appeared in the place of the date

how can I solve that or change the date format to shorter one

How to user yvComment in another place (not article)? I'm trying to create a diferent view method for CB Profile Gallery, and trying to enable comments to pictures.

hi,
can you help us with alphauserpoints for yvcomment?

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Thank you,
TJ

hum ... after a lot of reading for different comment modules I've realized that this one is almost the most downloaded and reported as ok one.

But after a lot of posts regarding the troubles users are facing I am just wondering if I should wait for Joomla 1.6 which will include a comment built-in system.

What do you think?

Thanks
Mohamed

Hi Everyone,
Maybe this has been asked before but how can I put the comments box at the top of the page (after the article text)? I have a lot of comments on some articles so it takes time to scroll down to the bottom to leave a comment which means less comments on my site and increased page load time.
Also is it possible to add some default text to the box which will show up in the comments box/ or even add some more comment field boxes- I think there are 4 at the moment; name, email add, subject and comment.

It may be a big request but appreciate any guidance you may have..
Thanks a lot

I use both, and integrated both with a simple plugin I made myself, 1 point for the commenter, 1 point for the article author.

I can send you the files.

A gentle reminder please

Hi MGadAllah have you personally tested the extension and experienced problems? It may be that the issues others are having are based on their server setup, other 3rd party extensions installed, etc. I have been using this extension for a while and it works fine. The only issue I experienced was that when using this extension with articles in which the Slimbox Plugin (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/4135/details) was used, the plugin's raw syntax code would become publicly visible within the article when the comment was posted. However this was easily solved by changing the following in plugin's parameters in the Administrative back-end from the default:
to
This is a top, feature rich comments system and you should give it a try.

Actually I've not test it yet and thought to ask before I go life with it.

I will test it then as it is the most popular comment one.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to use yvcomment together with jevents?
I want my site's users to be able to add comments on the detailed view of any event.

Thank you!

Ik have installed the yvComment module on my website http://www.bizzeker.nl/nieuws/lenen, but the next error appears at the bottom two times:

Database errors:
Error message: "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'comments))' at line 1 SQL=SELECT Count(*) As Expr1 FROM ((chds_yvcomment AS c LEFT JOIN chds_users AS u ON u.id=c.created_by) LEFT JOIN chds_content AS ar ON c.parentid=ar.id) LEFT JOIN chds_users AS aru ON aru.id=ar.created_by WHERE (c.sectionid=3) AND c.access <= 0 AND ar.access <= 0 AND ar.catid=9 AND c.state = 1 AND (ar.sectionid IN(Comments) OR ar.catid IN(Unsorted comments))"
SQL="SELECT Count(*) As Expr1 FROM ((chds_yvcomment AS c LEFT JOIN chds_users AS u ON u.id=c.created_by) LEFT JOIN chds_content AS ar ON c.parentid=ar.id) LEFT JOIN chds_users AS aru ON aru.id=ar.created_by WHERE (c.sectionid=3) AND c.access <= 0 AND ar.access <= 0 AND ar.catid=9 AND c.state = 1 AND (ar.sectionid IN(Comments) OR ar.catid IN(Unsorted comments))"

How can i fixed this?

Hi,
i didn't get how to make it. i vreate the dir in my template but i didn't understand how to controll it.

Hi, I've found the whole forum on the subject for you: "Template overrides" . You may see the link to the "Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!
" at the top of that forum - that Guide has info about template overrides...

We figured out the cause of the problem: you should put IDs of sections and/or Categories in the filters ("List of Sections/Categories IDs of Articles which may, or may not, contain comments..." parameters), and not their names.

I think, no. Please see the message: "yvComment - "The comment was not found" message in Calendar"

Thank you Yuri!

I have seen the message the message: "yvComment - "The comment was not found" message in Calendar" when I was searching the forum, that's why I was hoping that it was possible...
Thank you anyway for this great extension and for your support!

Privet Yuri,

First of all, thank you very much for your extension.

Regarding to the guest email issue, I know that the recent version do not have a feature that can autoatically reply to the guest email. Sometimes I want to send email to the author of the comment *manually. I just use the email address in the notification (with the form username ( email@example.com ).

Could you pls tell how can I change to this form: username <email@example.com>

I've looked around at your above-mentioned code but do not know how to modify it.

Thank you!

This got asked a while back but not responded too. It may have been answered elsewhere but I've searched exstensively and have not found it.

The text "You need to login or register to post comments" I need to change (remove the register link) Simple.

Where do i go to change this - I have hunted thru files for hours but no luck. And have posted in various forums but still no solution.

Any help much appreciated - Thanks

Did you find in the administrator/language/...

There is a line: "PLEASE_REGISTER_TO_ADD_COMMENTS=Please register or login to add your comments to this article." You can change to whatever you link the sentence after "=" mark.

Check ".../administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_yvcomment.ini" around line 255. It reads and not "You need to login or register to post comments" as you have posted but I think this is what you may wish to edit.

THANK YOU Dizzi and Hoanta for bothering to answer my post. I knew it was simple but it's knowing where to look when it's a first.

I have actually installed the kunenadiscuss plugin and was looking for the answer specifically to changing "You need to login or register to post comments"

I knew that yvcomment could not be THAT different so your answers have led me to the file I wanted ../administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_kunenadiscuss

The Kunena forum unfortunately did not come thru for me at all.

Thank you both.

Mummy

Hello.

Excuse me, because I know this problem is more appropriate for Bigo Captcha Topic, but I've reviewed all the posts of that topic, without can ressolve my problem...

The problem is that, accesing as guest to Yvcomments, under them, before "post", instead of captcha image, it only shows the alt text ("The word for verification. Lowercase letters only with no spaces").

I (believe that) fulfill all the requirements: Joomla 1.5.14 without Legacy mode, latest versions MySQL-Php, Safe Mode off, GD libraries up, correct installation, etc.

After read a Post by Yuri Volkov, about how diagnose possible errors relateds to captcha image, I've typped the url in other browser window...

It shows me the following message (I translate from original Spanish): "The image http://mundojoomla.org/index.php?option ... laycaptcha can't be showed, because it contains errors".

Then, I've saved the page 'index.php' and I've opened it with differentes editors, included hex-binary, but I just understand that the page, whose code begins with "Gif89a...", contains the common codification for animated gifs (logic, because it tries to load the animated gif captcha), and that codification doesn't work, but I don'know why.

The site is http://mundojoomla.org, and a page with yvComment, for example, http://mundojoomla.org/index.php?option ... &Itemid=78

I would be immensely grateful if someone helps me, please.

Thanks, regards.
Nacho

Hello hoanta,
it's really not so easy .
I will think about this, maybe we really need some confirmation email "Your comment was published by Administrator"...

Hi Yuri,

Thank for your reply. I always hope that you know the way to change the format: username ( email@example.com ) to the format username <email@example.com>, just use "<>" instead of "( )" marks and delete the spaces. This syntax is in the notification email to the administrator once there is a new comment.