User Comment Snippet

Can anyone code an usercomment snippet which would have the following form fields

Name
email
url
comment

the email will not be published
The url will be the hyperlink for the name.
An example will be http://abs.absabs.us

I don’t want to have any anonymous comments and at the same time, I don’t to chase away people from commenting...

I’m looking into it; it shouldn’t be too difficult; suggestions and ideas welcome.

That is very simple to do

From a long lost piece of documentation:

http://modxdev.net/usercommentssnippet.html

(soon to be on the main modx site)

question again. Suppose I want the email field as mandatory, how do i do it... For ex. if somebody is commenting, I want them to put down email to comment. If they dont put down email, then it should say please put down email...

That would require a modification of the snippet.

Here’s another question regarding UserComments:

Can anyone think of an easy way to display the "most recent 5 comments" from a specific comments block, not located on the same page?

&folder=`xx` &recentposts=`5` should do the trick...

Actually, that almost works, but not quite.

Assume my comments folder is called Bulletein Board, and also is set to display all the comments.

It creates a document called Bulletein Board - User comments and stores all the comments there.

Now imagine that on a separate page, call it Another Page, you want to show the 2 most recent comments and you call as above. It creates another page called Another Page - User comments in the Bulletein Board folder.

I need to be able to specify which page exactly to display from... I think it has something to do with the tagid parameter, but I’m not sure how to hit upon the magic combo that works. (btw, I’m "turning off" the ability to make comments from this page by setting the &canpost=`noone`, as noone is a non-existant group in this situation)

Hmmm...

After placing identical call parameters for &tagid and &folder, I think that something might be broken with the snippet. It didn’t work:

In the "remote display" calling page (id 93) called View:


In the "full view and add comments" main page/folder (id 190) called Post & View:


This results in two docs being created per the previous post:
View - User comments
Post & View - User comments

OK... fixed it. Had to add another parameter to the snippet... due in 0.9.1 or you can grab the file attached here.