ChronoComments - Latest Comments Module

Hi Guys - Your new ChronoComments looks excellent.

I want to start using it on my site straight away - Only thing stopping me is my current Comments component comes with a nifty 'Latest Comments' module which is really great showing site-wide comments (shows article title, first x number of characters of comment, x number of comments and links through of course to the article commented on).

Could this be done for ChronoComments? Then it would be Gold Medal status already 😀

Hi acbonner,

the module and some improvements will be added to teh component and all released in a few hours!🙂

I will move this post to the ChronoComments forums too once created!

Cheers

Max

That's great news - In that case I'll be changing my comments system to ChronoComments then in a few hours too 😀

Good Work Guys!

New version released with module!!

Max ... I like it!🙂

Suggestions:
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Option to display according to a specific Section or Category

Option to display the title of the article being commented on in the Module Body.

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Jim

Sure, the module is easy to edit, I will try to add those 2 new changes soon, pretty busy today😉

if you got a minute, you can review the extension on the Joomla site, it will help all users know about it more!🙂

Thank you!

Max

Max, I am definitely going to write a review today. I just want to take a bit more time to make sure I explore and understand the features (and potentials) of ChronoComments so that my review is more informed and helpful to others.

Thanks!
Jim

Thank you very much Jim!🙂

I just sent you an email with some important info!

Regards

Max

Hi Jim,

New module with the suggested features!

Regards

Max

[attachment=0]mod_chronocomments.zip[/attachment]

Max, the changes to the module are great ... except for one glitch. Wherever the module is, whether I limit it to a section or not, it takes the path of the page you're on and adds the article number and comment ID.

Module links in the section page gives me a 404 because the link doesn't give any category.
Module links in the category page makes them all as if they were included in that particular category. I get the right article, but it's linked incorrectly

Jim

Hi Jim,

have you edited the "body" field of the module ?

Regards

Max

Hello Max!🙂

I had made some small changes in the Box Header and Comment Row Content areas for appearance. Now, I guess you need to know that I do have SEF enabled ... but not the sh404SEF extension.

Anyhow, I just reloaded the module. From the home page I get a link that looks something like this:
(domain)/component/content/article/313#commentID6

So far, so good. However, when I move into the section and categories I get the same as stated above (in my previous post).

Jim

Hi Jim,

I will check the issue and get back to you, I don't think I checked the links in sections pages, they was fine in home page and articles pages though!

Regards

Max

The new version of the module works great, thanks! 😀

Hi Jim,

I will check the issue and get back to you, I don't think I checked the links in sections pages, they was fine in home page and articles pages though!

Regards

Max

Have you had a chance to check this out yet?

Jim

Hi Jim,

I'm sorry, not yet, will do ASAP.

Regards

Max

Hi Jim, issue fixed in the attached file! however the same issue is there with the "read n comments" in blogs pages too, this fix will come in the next release!

Regards

Max

Hello Max,

I hate to tell you, but I have found no change in the way links are created on either of my 2 testing sites after uploading these files. Now, there is a change on my latest test site where I've installed a fresh copy of Joomla1.5.7. On a few replies to replies (I think with a quote) the module was pulling the footer into the mod box and clipping a couple replies ... a now that is not happening. I didn't get that problem in the first site with 1.5.6. Also, if you check it out you'll notice some more strange behavior in the BBCode buttons.

http://gracebase.com

Make sure to follow the links in the left main menu so you can see how they're all following whatever section and/or category you're in.

Jim

Hi Jim,

Sorry, forgot to tell how the body link should be rewritten :

<strong>{name}:</strong><a href="{page_link}#commentID{id}">{text}</a><br>

Regards

Max

Max ... yes, that did it! Thanks. 😀

On the other matter ... did you happen to check out the BBCode Buttons on that site?



This only happens on the J!1.5.7 installation, though it also did the same on the 1.5.6 version until a few comments got logged. However it doesn't want to clear up with the addition of numerous comments in 1.5.7. Like I say, this was a fresh install of the latest Joomla version, not an upgrade.

Jim

Hi Jim, great, for the other issue, try to replace your ChronoComments template folder files with the one attached, let me know!

Regards

Max

After each posting the buttons are lining up correctly, like on the other site, however they revert back with a refresh. I've tried numerous comment entries and yet it is still doing the same thing.😟

Jim

Hi Jim, I need to look at this site and may need some admin login, I believe there is some problem with this site, do you have any other mambots installed ? what does they do ? try to disable them ?

Regards

Max

Max ... either you're a genius 😀 or I'm a moron 🙄 ............. or maybe a little of both 🤣

So far I have not installed all the plugins/mambots I have on my other test site so I wasn't even thinking in that direction. There is one plugin I still use that I had installed along with the yvcomment extension, which is the yvbbcode, that I use for my articles. Somehow, I had overlooked the check that enabled the option:
Enable BBCode replacements for the whole page (even here)
I had purposely disabled that option in my other site, and I thought I did the same on this one. Oh well, another reminder to check and recheck all those little checkboxes!

Thanks for your patience!

Jim

Great, glad it got fixed!🙂

How do i reverse the order of the comments?

So that the newest comment is in the top of the list?

Hi rob,

this will need a module hack! are you open to this ?

Max

Yes, no problem.

Hi robkvi,

Looks to me like changing the sort order in line 489 of chronocomment.php from ASC to DESC should to it.

$query = "SELECT * FROM #__chrono_comments WHERE component = '".JRequest::getVar('component')."' AND pageid= '".JRequest::getVar('pageid')."' AND parentid='0' AND published='1' AND verify='1' ORDER BY datetime ASC".$limit;

Bob

Hi robkvi,

as per bob suggestion, the module here attached to this post does have this setting as a config, can you try it ?

Max

None of the suggestions worked. It is still showing the comments in wrong order..

Hi, after applying this patch did you go to the module config and changed the order to descending ?

My bad. Sorry. It works now. Thanks alot!

I would like to make this set MODULE BODY like this:

+ Name of the article link
+ here is the content of the comments

Then the code should be how to set it ?

Hi Ryan,

What's "+ Name of the article link " ? the article title ? but the module can grab the comments from many articles, let me know!

Cheers
Max

To make an analogy like this:

ChronoComments - Latest Comments Module ----- this is article title

What's "+ Name of the article link " ? the article title ? but the module.... ------------ This is the latest comments of the above article,

Hi Ryan,

Currently the module doesn't support getting the article title, only the article link, we may do this with some hack if you are interested.

Cheers,
Max

Thank you for your reply, I think if this is the case will be made more intuitive comments 🙂

No problems, I will add this in the todo list!

cheers,
Max

Sometimes information can not be released in the future, but in the background, management can be seen

In the background had been set to default and visitors can publish comments

Ryan, I'm sorry but I can't understand your last message completely, is this a question ?🙂

Cheers,
Max

I made a comment In the article, but after some time the contents was missing

So I open the Administrator Management , Just to see missing comments were published in state . :mrgreen:

so you mean the comment got published on its own or... ?

Hello, i did a quick hack to adjust the module to display most commented items.

I'm posting just the helper.php, since all the modifications are there: sql query and display without name/comment preview - only the article title (the Comment row content must be modified from administration also to be like: <a href="{page_link}">{text}</a><br> or <a href="{page_link}#commentID{id}">{text}</a><br> )

Enjoy 😀

Thanks clone!🙂

Regards,
Max

Maybe it would be cool to ad options to choose between the modes, but i don't have the time to deal with it right now...

No problems, I will have time for this after I finish an update with Chronoforms, hopefully soon...

Thanks!
Max