Comments

[thomassausen]

So I just want to do comments. I read http://processwire.com/api/fieldtypes/comments/ and this was a good starting point. I want full control of my markup and so <?php echo $page->comments->render();?> is not an option.

So I tried

  <ol id="singlecomments" class="commentlist">
   <?php
   foreach($page->comments as $comment) {
   if($comment->status < 1) continue; // skip unapproved or spam comments
   $cite = htmlentities($comment->cite); // make sure output is entity encoded
   $text = htmlentities($comment->text);
   $date = date('d.m.Y', $comment->created); // format the date
   ?>
                            <li class="clearfix">
                                <div class="message">
                                    <div class="info">
                                        <h2><a href=''><?=$cite?></a></h2>
                                        <div class="meta"><?=$date?></div><!-- /.meta -->
                                    </div><!-- /.info -->
                                    <p><?=$text?></p>
                                </div><!-- /.message -->    
                            </li>
                       <?} ?>
                    </ol>  

And it's working finde. But:

1. I want to add Gravatars, how is the best practice?

2. I want to link $cite to the users website, but how can I achieve this?

3. I want at least paragraphs within $text, in a perfect world ul/ol and links, too.

[Khan]

1. http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/get-gravatar-using-only-javascript.html

2. there is not website field

3. use BBCODE http://www.sitepoint.com/bb-code-php-application/

[bfncs]

About Gravatar:

This is also pretty easy to do in PHP, just have a look at their documentation.

No need to request data from their API upfront, you can calculate a hash and assemble the image's src by yourself on the server. This might be something that would be nice to have as a simple module though.

[Mats]

If you use the dev version of PW you have built in support for Gravatar and webiste. 

https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/tree/dev/wire/modules/Fieldtype/FieldtypeComments