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Comment Page
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By: Ryan
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This module was developed to increase the number of pages on a site that can be
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indexed by search engines. It accomplishes this by creating pages that display
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comments individually along with an optional thread review that links to other
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comments in a thread display. The individual pages will also come in handy for
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your site's users, as it makes for easy bookmarking and linking to particular
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comments in a discussion. This module was particularly designed with site
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forums in mind.
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Pages use a very simple URL naming scheme: 'comment/1'
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The comment subject is also included after the comment ID to include search
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keywords in the URL. (This is among the optional display settings and requires
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that you have Pathauto enabled to work.)
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The link to the page may be displayed in the normal comment links section, or
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that link may be turned off and you can include the link somewhere else by
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theming. An example of integrating this module with Flatforum is below.
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View all the display options at 'admin/content/comment_page'.
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You can also set your site's comments to default their subjects to something
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like "Re: Parent subject" when the comment subject field is left blank.
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Module developed sponsored by the Ubercart project. (http://www.ubercart.org)
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To see this in action, check out our forums! (http://www.ubercart.org/forum)
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Theming the comment link using Flatforum:
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With comment page, it is possible to modify the Flatforum code added to your
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theme's template.php to see if the parent node is a forum node. This will tell
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the theme to present the comment page like a forum post.
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This code should be modified to look something like this:
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static $is_forum;
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$variables = array();
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if (!isset($is_forum)) {
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if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && arg(2) == '') {
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$nid = arg(1);
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}
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if (arg(0) == 'comment' && arg(1) == 'reply' && is_numeric(arg(2))) {
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$nid = arg(2);
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}
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// Added for Comment Page.
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if (arg(0) == 'comment' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
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$nid = $vars['comment']->nid;
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}
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if ($nid) {
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$node = node_load(array('nid' => $nid));
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}
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$is_forum = ($node && $node->type == 'forum');
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_is_forum($is_forum);
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}
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This will ensure a forum comment gets themed like your forum posts. You can
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also make a link available for us in your template files. Comment Page adds a
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field called page_url to the comment object when it is being viewed. You can
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expose this to the template by including it in your $vars or $variables array,
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whichever you have set to be returned by template.php in the function
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_phptemplate_variables().
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In the if block executed for forum themed posts is a switch that has a case for
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comments. You can add something like the following to be able to use a variable
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named $page_url in your template file as a link to the comment page:
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$variables['page_link'] = l('view page', $vars['comment']->page_url);
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To make it so this variable isn't set on the comment page itself, you'd want to
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use something a little more involved like the following:
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if (!(arg(0) == 'comment' && arg(1) == $vars['comment']->cid)) {
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$variables['page_link'] = l('view page', $vars['comment']->page_url);
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}
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