Add a "URL" field to the comments form

[Nico Knoll]

Hi,

the default comment form ($page->comments->renderForm()) only includes "name", "email" and "text" but I need an URL field so that the person who is commenting can add its URL.

Is there a way to realize this?

Greets,

Nico

[ryan]

You'd probably want to make a copy of the FieldtypeComments and modify/rename it towards your needs. You'd need to change the DB schema that it uses so that you'd have a URL field, and then update the CommentForm class to accept it and save it. Basically, I'd just duplicate everything for the 'email' field to make a URL field. When it comes to sanitizing it, you'd just use the $sanitizer->url() rather than $sanitizer->email(). URLs are kind of open-ended in terms of what characters they allow, so make sure you run it through htmlentities() before outputting anywhere at runtime.