yvComment - Comments extension for Joomla! 1.5

[yvolk]

With your suggested configuration ("Enable Smiley replacements for the text of Articles" + "Execute content plugins") smiles are displayed even in my articles. I do not want this to happen! I want smiles only in comments beacuse in my articles there are situations involving in wrong "smile replacement".

This means that you have special requirement that is not covered by yvSmiley/yvComment configuration options.
If you're satisfied with your hack (or we may call it a "custom template") - use it

As a general and nicer solution I'm still looking for a way to set plugin/component/module parameters for individual articles. Joomla! doesn't have such feature yet...

[yvolk]

1.20 did improve the issue I was seing. When posting a NEW comment, it no longer goes to the front page. However, an action like Owners reply still was going to the front page. I am still very new to Joomla and standards, but this change seems to work well for me. You or someone else may find a better way, but this seems to work for now. After logging in and clicking reply, it stays on the current page (same URL). I tested with and without SEF so it appears to be safe from my perspective. The change is to the form action using this function: JURI::getInstance()->toString();

com_yvcomment/views/listofcomments/tmpl/default.php

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      <?php	if ($ShowReplyButton) :	?>
         <td>
           <form action='<?php echo JURI::getInstance()->toString();?>' target="_top" method='post'>

Here is a link with some information: http://docs.joomla.org/JURI/getInstance

I hope this helps, but I'm still learning. YMMV.

Let me know what you think, I'm will to try again or something else if this won't work.

I tried something like you proposed: inserted full URL of current page to the form 'action' attribute.
I had to abandon this method because full URL ( e.g. JURI::getInstance()->toString() ) has parameters that may be in conflict with parameters needed for the following page. In fact, developer can't even control values of that parameters... I would call this situation "a Joomla! router problem"...

[CDWM]

I've just tested this on my installation: it works!
Link to your site doesn't help me to figure out the problem, because it doesn't show me 'Reply' button
...Maybe you have some wrong custom template?

I've played around with the plugin settings to see what would happen, and I think it's just a matter of the Administrator's Reply Only for Allow Comment on Comments setting not working as I expected. What I thought should happen is this:
Email notification sent to user listed in plugin settings
That user opens List of Comments in Admin, sees "Reply" button, clicks it, types a reply, or rebuttal if you like, posts and then that reply is seen in the List of Comments (admin side) as well as under the comment it replied to. Like this:

(title of original comment) this door
(calendar icon) 1 Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:52 (author icon) roscoe the puppy dog
(original comment) Please make me one for my doghouse. thank you. they are great.

Admin Reply: They are too big for your doghouse!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
NEXT COMMENT

As you can see, I'd like to have the ability to reply ONLY in the admin list of comments, and then display that reply in the list of comments as well as on the article page.

Currently, I see a reply button only in the Admin list of comments, click it, reply, then the reply ONLY shows up in the Article Manager in the proper category/section.

IF this can be customized to perform like I wish, could you tell me which file to start playing with?

If it would help to see the Admin side of this, email me at webmaster at cdwebmaker dot com.

[yvolk]

Hi! As I understood you, you can reply to comment, but you can't see that "comment on comment" in the list of comments.
So, I think that maybe you have problem with template(s). My advice is to start without any customized templates (delete them from the site temporarily), and only after everything works, add customized template(s).
Default template that shows owners reply/administrators reply:
'components\com_yvcomment\views\listofcomments\tmpl\default_owners_reply.php'.

I've just tested this on my installation: it works!
Link to your site doesn't help me to figure out the problem, because it doesn't show me 'Reply' button
...Maybe you have some wrong custom template?

I've played around with the plugin settings to see what would happen, and I think it's just a matter of the Administrator's Reply Only for Allow Comment on Comments setting not working as I expected. What I thought should happen is this:
Email notification sent to user listed in plugin settings
That user opens List of Comments in Admin, sees "Reply" button, clicks it, types a reply, or rebuttal if you like, posts and then that reply is seen in the List of Comments (admin side) as well as under the comment it replied to. Like this:

(title of original comment) this door
(calendar icon) 1 Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:52 (author icon) roscoe the puppy dog
(original comment) Please make me one for my doghouse. thank you. they are great.

Admin Reply: They are too big for your doghouse!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
NEXT COMMENT

As you can see, I'd like to have the ability to reply ONLY in the admin list of comments, and then display that reply in the list of comments as well as on the article page.

Currently, I see a reply button only in the Admin list of comments, click it, reply, then the reply ONLY shows up in the Article Manager in the proper category/section.

IF this can be customized to perform like I wish, could you tell me which file to start playing with?

If it would help to see the Admin side of this, email me at webmaster at cdwebmaker dot com.

[CDWM]

Hi and thanks so much for putting up with me! I'll do some testing/playing in the next couple days and let you know how it goes.

[palminas]

So, I got this to work on my site, and overall, I am happy with it.

One thing that bothers me is that when someone posts a comment, it looks like:

(Alli) said:
or
(Mitch) said:

Is there a way to remove the parentheses? They don't make much sense.

Thanks.

[CDWM]

Hi and thanks so much for putting up with me! I'll do some testing/playing in the next couple days and let you know how it goes.

I've found a way to make it work mostly like I want and the customer is ok with it, so I'm done with the brain damage for now. Maybe someday I'll look into it a little harder.

The only remaining issue is the link in the email notification. It should be http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/link-to-article but comes in the email as http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/new/link-to-article

I'm sure there some setting wrong, but I can't for the life of me find it. When we go live with this Joomla site, it will be moved to the root, replacing existing site and I want to be sure those links all work.

Thanks again!
-C

[yvolk]

You need to create your custom template for such changes. Read about "template override" in this topic (Search this topic) and on the yvComment's Homepage.

So, I got this to work on my site, and overall, I am happy with it.

One thing that bothers me is that when someone posts a comment, it looks like:

(Alli) said:
or
(Mitch) said:

Is there a way to remove the parentheses? They don't make much sense.

Thanks.

[yvolk]

The only remaining issue is the link in the email notification. It should be http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/link-to-article but comes in the email as http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/new/link-to-article

This is bug and it will be fixed in the next release of yvComment:
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# Content link bug, if Joomla was installed not in the root of the site
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[rugubara]

Hello.

Could you kindly help to mate your yvComment with Events? have a look here: http://www.clubcross.ru/index.php?optio ... 7&Itemid=4

In the very bottom of the page the error is displayed. When I disable yvComment plugin the error goes away.

The opportunity to allow comments there would be marvelous. A hack to get rid of the error -just acceptable.

Regards, Anton Gubarkov

[yvolk]

Hello, Anton! yvComment may work with ANY component as long as it stores its content in Joomla! content table (e.g. 'jos_content').
As I can see in the SQL dump, com_events doesn't use content table even for part of information about the "Event", so "Event" it is not Content from Joomla! point of view (i.e. Joomla! core doesn't know what it is).
This is why yvComment can not comment on such "Events".
I may only suggest to rewrite com_events so that it would EXTEND content table rather that duplicate it in custom table...

What's about the warning message - you have to debug it: I can't tell which extension is 'wrong' even if disabling yvComment removes the warning...

Hello.

Could you kindly help to mate your yvComment with Events? have a look here: http://www.clubcross.ru/index.php?optio ... 7&Itemid=4

In the very bottom of the page the error is displayed. When I disable yvComment plugin the error goes away.

The opportunity to allow comments there would be marvelous. A hack to get rid of the error -just acceptable.

Regards, Anton Gubarkov

[gmfpanda]

Thank you for this wonderful component. I use it but have a question.

Is there a way where guests who post and leave their email get sent notifications of replies to their comment and/or new comments?

Often a user will leave a comment that is like "How do I do XYZ?"

So I then reply to them in the comment system but they never get an email to know I responded?

Please let me know, thank you.

Glenn

[lopnorth]

I'm wondering if you could tell me where I could locate the code so the Preview Button would not be displayed? I'm using CSS style 003 (Gradient), if that makes any difference. Again, thank you for all your help!

[CDWM]

The only remaining issue is the link in the email notification. It should be http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/link-to-article but comes in the email as http://MYDOMAIN.COM/new/new/link-to-article

This is bug and it will be fixed in the next release of yvComment:
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# Content link bug, if Joomla was installed not in the root of the site
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Will it work properly when we move the finished site to the root?
Thanks!

[yvolk]

The code is in the file: "components/com_yvcomment/views/comment/tmpl/default.php"

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<button type="button" onclick="submitbutton<?php echo $yvCommentFormName;?>('preview')" class='button' >
	<?php echo JText::_("PREVIEW"); ?>
</button>

You can safely delete it.

I'm wondering if you could tell me where I could locate the code so the Preview Button would not be displayed? I'm using CSS style 003 (Gradient), if that makes any difference. Again, thank you for all your help!

[Trotsky]

Zdravia jelaiu, Yuri.

Totally mindblowing plugin, Joomla devs should award you a medal for providing much-needed feature which they failed to implement. I ran into several troubles while configuring it for my site, though.

I'm using customized dynamic page title hack so browsers would display page title as, for example, "Super Site - Awesome Article". I've set yvComment to show comment posting interface on a separate page and the problem is - the title of such pages is kinda bit weird: "Super Site - Super Site". I've tried screwing around with a code a bit, but any changes I make to the line that supposedly does that makes the entire page unviewable. My programming skills are lacking, to say the least of it, hence this plea for help.

Any way I could make comment page's title to be something like "Super Site - Post a comment" or better yet, "Super Site - Awesome Article - Post a comment"?

[infograf768]

Joomla devs should award you a medal for providing much-needed feature which they failed to implement.

Hmmm...
It's a pity you use such an historical alias to make such statements. I doubt that Leon Davidovitch would have ever done the same...

Joomla! is not supposed to provide all what a specific user needs to make a site. The extension architecture is present to open it to almost anything needed, among them YComments (Hi! Yvolk. )

FYI, Joomla Extension Directory serves 4 505 extensions as of today. It's not too difficult to imagine what would be the size of a Joomla! package to which would be added even a dozains of these, not speaking of the maintenance.

Just found out Photoshop was totally unable to correctly cook my snails. Hmm... should write a ticket about it to Adobe... That's IMO a total failure.

[Trotsky]

Joomla! is not supposed to provide all what a specific user needs to make a site.

Yeah, you're totally right, except that commenting feature is nowadays one of the most base ones in products of such kind. Anyways, that wasn't the point of my post at all, just a prelude of sorts. Congrats with succesful trolling of this topic. Way to go, dude.

[yvolk]

Salute, comrade Trotsky
I didn't think about setting any page title on yvComment page yet... so I had to spend some time to figure it out... and this is solution for you.
To the template 'components/com_yvcomment/views/comment/tmpl/default.php' (or Your custom template), after these lines:

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  default :
    $title = '?? task_next="'. $this->task_next . '"<br />';
}

add these block of code:

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	if ( $yvComment->ParentOption() == 'com_yvcomment') {
		//We need to set page title here
		$document	=& JFactory::getDocument();
		$page_title = "";
		$article = $this->get('Article');
  	if ($article) {
			$page_title = $article->title . " - ";
  	}
		$page_title = $page_title . $title;
		$document->setTitle($page_title);
	}

It does exactly as you asked: ''ArticleTitle - ActionWithComment".

Good luck!

Zdravia jelaiu, Yuri.

Totally mindblowing plugin, Joomla devs should award you a medal for providing much-needed feature which they failed to implement. I ran into several troubles while configuring it for my site, though.

I'm using customized dynamic page title hack so browsers would display page title as, for example, "Super Site - Awesome Article". I've set yvComment to show comment posting interface on a separate page and the problem is - the title of such pages is kinda bit weird: "Super Site - Super Site". I've tried screwing around with a code a bit, but any changes I make to the line that supposedly does that makes the entire page unviewable. My programming skills are lacking, to say the least of it, hence this plea for help.

Any way I could make comment page's title to be something like "Super Site - Post a comment" or better yet, "Super Site - Awesome Article - Post a comment"?

[Trotsky]

Works like a charm, thank you very much.

Another issue I got is when author of comment leaves the homepage field empty, it screws his displayed name pretty badly, as shown on this picture. What's peculiar is that when the comment is previewed, it's displayed correctly - author's name is link to his e-mail. When the comment is posted, though... Not quite pretty.

I've tried switching templates, reinstalled plugin, but the glitch remains. Also, not sure if this information is revelant or not, but just in case: there's no user registration on my site, all the comment posters are guests.

[tony486]

Hello!
I use Joomla 1.5., sh404SEF and your component yvcomment 1.20. Now I have a problem with the pagination.

For using the pager I'm using the following Code snippet:

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echo $this->pagination->getListFooter();

1. For using SEO urls I activated the chekbox on sh404SEF. With this preferences it doesn't work.

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Pages  <span class="pagenav">1</span> <a title="2" href="/projekte/neue-strandkoerbe.html" class="pagenav">2</a>

2. The following code shows working version without activated SEO:

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Pages  <span class="pagenav">1</span> <a title="2" href="/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134%3Aneue-strandkoerbe&catid=27%3Aprojekte&Itemid=76&limitstart=3" class="pagenav">2</a>

Question:
How can I pass the param (on version 1)?

[zaini]

hi,

How do I remove the footer from my website.?

it says yvcomment version* it is linked.

thanks

[yvolk]

This is known bug of the "Email Cloak" Joomla! plugin, see e.g. "Upgrade to 1.5.9 Emailcloak not working"

Another issue I got is when author of comment leaves the homepage field empty, it screws his displayed name pretty badly, as shown on this picture. What's peculiar is that when the comment is previewed, it's displayed correctly - author's name is link to his e-mail. When the comment is posted, though... Not quite pretty.

I've tried switching templates, reinstalled plugin, but the glitch remains. Also, not sure if this information is revelant or not, but just in case: there's no user registration on my site, all the comment posters are guests.

[yvolk]

Hi. Please donate to the project, following instructions on this page: Donate.

hi,
How do I remove the footer from my website.?
it says yvcomment version* it is linked.

thanks

[Trotsky]

This is known bug of the "Email Cloak" Joomla! plugin, see e.g. "Upgrade to 1.5.9 Emailcloak not working"

I see, thanks again for clearing that up.

[yvolk]

Hi, yvComment uses slightly modified version of Joomla! core pagination features,
see

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class yvCommentJPagination extends JPagination { ... }

in the file 'components/com_yvcomment/helpers.php'

So you may debug/test this with sh404SEF. - I didn't use sh404SEF yet...
Please provide feedback here.

Hello!
I use Joomla 1.5., sh404SEF and your component yvcomment 1.20. Now I have a problem with the pagination.

For using the pager I'm using the following Code snippet:

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echo $this->pagination->getListFooter();

1. For using SEO urls I activated the chekbox on sh404SEF. With this preferences it doesn't work.

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Pages  <span class="pagenav">1</span> <a title="2" href="/projekte/neue-strandkoerbe.html" class="pagenav">2</a>

2. The following code shows working version without activated SEO:

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Pages  <span class="pagenav">1</span> <a title="2" href="/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134%3Aneue-strandkoerbe&catid=27%3Aprojekte&Itemid=76&limitstart=3" class="pagenav">2</a>

Question:
How can I pass the param (on version 1)?

[syndrael]

Hello,
I don't know if i'll correctly describe my problem:
First of all, in my case any submitted comment have to be validated by an administrator.
1st case: Comments author is considered as Registered (in front-end) once logged. He submits a comment, the administrator publishes it and.. its name is Administrator in the list of comments.
2nd case: Comments author is considered as Author (in front-end) once logged.He submits a comment, the administrator publishes it and.. its name is his Real Name (that's what i want) in the list of comments.
My question is: Is it possible to get the Real Name for only Registered people instead of the string 'Administrator'.

When i investigate in the database i can see a difference in the created_by property in the jos_users table. May be a clue ?

Can you replicate this behaviour on your own ?
Thanks for your answer.
Best regards
S.

[lopnorth]

Thanks for the help with hiding the preview button. It works great!
One other problem. I'm using YVcomment plugin below my articles. When I use the standard print icon to print my article and comments, it prints fine in Mozilla Firefox. When using Internet Explorer 7, my print preview window shows the article and comments but prints only the article itself, the title Comments with the number of comments in parantheses, then leaves a large blank space and prints Display #20 and yvcomment 1.20.0 at the bottom. Can you give me a clue what might be wrong? Again, many thanks!

[tony486]

Hello!
I have a quenstion once again.
I know how I can configure the site, to show comments and form on one page. But how can I make it that BOTH will be shown on a SEPARATE page? On the first site I want to have a link ("please comment") an on a separate one, I want to list the comments and the form.

Thank you for help.

Tony

[yvolk]

I think this is some problem with your template (its incompatibility with MSIE). "Large blank space" is obviously list of comments, that is not shown by MSIE7.
Fixing the template is not directly related to yvComment...

...One other problem. I'm using YVcomment plugin below my articles. When I use the standard print icon to print my article and comments, it prints fine in Mozilla Firefox. When using Internet Explorer 7, my print preview window shows the article and comments but prints only the article itself, the title Comments with the number of comments in parantheses, then leaves a large blank space and prints Display #20 and yvcomment 1.20.0 at the bottom. Can you give me a clue what might be wrong? Again, many thanks!