layout modification

Question

Hi,Im working on comments layout. What i need is every post to be rendered in a rectangle; if the post has a replay that replay must be also in a rectangle inside the parent rectangle. See http://www.lotusdiving.com/reviewsThe problem is the child post (replay) needs a different (smaller) rectangle. I modified the php file comment-item.html.php as follows; new lines in bold at the beginning of the code, original code in black:

{/a_comment_avatar}-->
            {comment_name}{if_user_reputation}• {user_reputation}{/if_user_reputation}
            
            {comment_rating}

{comment_text}

{comment_datetime}-->
        id)&&(in_array($user->gid, (array)$configs->get('unpublish_groups')))) //authorize('com_chronocomments', 'unpublish') )
		{
			//JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Access Forbidden'));
			$Authorized = true;
		}
		if($Authorized){
	
	?>

id)&&(in_array($user->gid, (array)$configs->get('edit_groups'))))
		{
			//JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Access Forbidden'));
			$Authorized = true;
		}else{
		
	/*$row->load($post['commentid']);
			if(($user->id)&&($configs->get('user_edit_own') == '1')&&($user->id == $row->userid)){
				$Authorized = true;
			}*/
		}
		if($Authorized){
		?>

id)&&(in_array($user->gid, (array)$configs->get('posting_groups'))))
		{
			//JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Access Forbidden'));
			$Authorized = true;
		}else{
			if(($user->guest)&&($configs->get('guests_post') == '1')){
				$Authorized = true;
			}
		}
		if($Authorized){
		?>

id)&&(in_array($user->gid, (array)$configs->get('edit_groups'))))
		{
			//JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Access Forbidden'));
			$Authorized = true;
		}else{
			/*$row->load($post['commentid']);
			if(($user->id)&&($configs->get('user_edit_own') == '1')&&($user->id == $row->userid)){
				$Authorized = true;
			}*/
		}
		if($Authorized){
		?>

get('sh404SEF') == '1')echo JURI::Base(); ?>" id="edit_ccform_{comment_id}" name="edit_ccform_{comment_id}" method="post" >
        {comment_text}
          *

" />
		" />

id)&&(in_array($user->gid, (array)$configs->get('posting_groups'))))
		{
			//JError::raiseError(403, JText::_('Access Forbidden'));
			$Authorized = true;
		}else{
			if(($user->guest)&&($configs->get('guests_post') == '1')){
				$Authorized = true;
			}
		}
		if($Authorized){
		?>
        
        components/com_chronocomments/loaderget('loaderimage_color', 'b') ?>.gif" />
        
        get('bbcode') == '1')&&($configs->get('showbbcodepanel') == '1')){ ?>            
            text" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(0, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                B

text" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(2, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                i

text" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(4, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                u

text" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(6, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                Quote

code" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(8, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                Code

List

text" onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(12, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                List item

http://url or URL text' onmouseout="hideShadow(this.id);" onclick="bbstyle(16, 'ccform_{comment_id}', 'post_{comment_id}_text')">
                
                URL

get('sh404SEF') == '1')echo JURI::Base(); ?>" id="ccform_{comment_id}" name="ccform_{comment_id}" method="post" >
        
        get('hidename') == '1')&&($my->username)){ ?>type="hidden"type="text" id="ccname_{comment_id}" class="form-input" value="username; ?>" />get('hidename') == '1')&&($my->username)){ ?>   *
        get('hideemail') != '1'){ ?>
        email; ?>" /> 
        
		get('hideurl') != '1'){ ?>

get('captcha') == '1'){ ?>
             
              components/com_chronocomments/chrono_verification.php?imtype=get('imtype'); ?>&anticache=">

" />
		" />
		id; ?>" />

{REPLIES}

You can see i added a table and a php variable as selector ($parent_select). Ive observed that in the comments table the replays have "parentid" equal to the parent whom belongs to. In other words the posts have always "parentid=0" while replays have "parentid !=0".Now i have to transfer the value of "parentid" loaded from database table to the variable "parent_select". Ive noticed that the comments are loaded in /plugin/ChronoComments.php using the function LoadComment($commentid, $comment_item)  but from here i got lost. Please let me know how to transfer the value of "parentid" to my defined variable "parent_selector". If i can do that i assume i can render the comment and its replays in different ways.Thank you in advance.Regards,Raul