Guestbook as Article comments for J1.5?

Woof · Post by **Woof** » 12 Apr 2008, 19:58

Again Jan, another GREAT component that works extremely well with J1.5. But I have a few questions for my specific use.

I have one or two articles in my website where I want Registered users to leave a comment, and I think your Phoca Guestbook could do the job extremely well.
Basically, my article could be the Guestbook "Description", but, it does not have the Page Break and Read More.

1) Is there a way to have these included Page Break and Read More in the Description editor?
2) Is there a way to have a Guestbook displayed in a left or right column template? Any suggestions?
3) Is there a way to have the Guestbook inserted at the end of an article like {phocaguestbook id=guestbookid/guestbookname}
4) Are you thinking to write a Phoca Comment Component for J1.5 (inspired from your Phoca Guestbook) ?

Please keep up the excellent work!
Woof

Post by **Jan** » 12 Apr 2008, 20:29

1) Maybe ... try to remove this:
array('pagebreak', 'readmore')
from:
administrator\components\com_phocaguestbook\views\phocaguestbookb\tmpl\form.php

echo $this->editor->display( 'description', $this->phocaguestbook->description,
'550', '300', '60', '20', array('pagebreak', 'readmore') ) ;

You get the buttons, but I don't know if you get the correct behaviour too, you must try it...

2) The Guestbook is displayed in the place, where your template has set the content area, so it depends on your template...
3) No such plugin doesn't exist yet
4) No problem in way programming, but there is a problem with my time, see:
index.php?action=vthread&forum=1&topic=621#msg3586 (some reasons)

Jan

Woof · Post by **Woof** » 13 Apr 2008, 04:23

I could see the buttons, but I could not really test it as the Guestbook is called directly from a menu and therefore is showing everything, so, the "Read More" was not fully testted (I could see an horizontal line where the Read more was supposed to be)... unless you have a way to show the guestbook as one of the "frontpage" articles, then, I could test it ?

I completely understand the time issue; you are doing such a wonderful volunteer job at answering in record time your forum and updating your Components, modules, etc! This is really appreciated!
Thank you and Good luck at school!

Woof

Post by **Jan** » 13 Apr 2008, 19:13

I think, it will not work, because there is no code for read more or page break in the Phoca Guestbook component ... the guestbook is a standalone component, so it cannot be as the 'frontpage' article