[Tip] Using a forum instead of the UserComments Snippet

Hi !
In my modx website i use a forum for the UserComments
( the forum i use is a PunBB forum )
i put a link at the bottom of the pages :
"click here to write a comment"

at the beginning, it was quite long to do this, i had to:
1_ create the topic in the forum
2_ copy the url linking to the topic
3_ paste the url in the web page

but now i use a template variable and it’s far quicker ! :

punbb url’s look like this : http://www.yoursite.com/yourforumroot/post.php?tid=XXXX
where XXXX is the id of the topic

so you can create a template variable ( a text tv will do it ), called "comment" for example

in your template(s), add somewhere


the # symbol enables the tv to be edited with Quickedit

it’s done !

Now you only have to create the topic in the forum, remember the id , and add the value to the pages with Quickedit !

( p.s. this will work with every forum, just modify the html code to fit the forum’s url )

That sounds pretty inventive. Many thanks for sharing. Do you have a link to a working installation of this that we could have a peek at?

my website uses this tip
http://www.pikkitux.com ( French language )

well it’s juste a simple template variable, it works !
on my website, you can see it in action , at the bottom of the "articles pages" ( not the folder ones )
you can see" Cliquez ici ..... "

i just have to create the topic in punbb, look at the id of the topic, and add the value to the pages with quickedit