"No comments yet" notice for Comments placeholder?

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beefknuckle Reply #1, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hello,

Thanks for the fantastic work. I’m using Jot with placeholders to customize the arrangement of the different chunks. Currently, if there are no comments on a post, just the "Comments" header shows up with nothing underneath it. Is there a way to include a message like "No comments yet" in this case?

Wanted to ask in case there was an option I was missing before I started digging in to a workaround involving a separate snippet and the comment count.

Thanks,

Aaron

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fruitwerks Reply #2, 16 years, 4 months ago

In ditto you can specify the &noResults tpl - I’m not going to look in the docs, but I am sure there is a similar function

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beefknuckle Reply #3, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hm...there’s a &tplComments parameter, but that controls the template for EACH comment, not for the comment block as a whole. I don’t see anything in the documentation about a "no comments" template. I’ll have to dig around in the snippet a bit more I guess.

Thanks,

Aaron

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sottwell Reply #4, 16 years, 4 months ago

There isn’t one.

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fruitwerks Reply #5, 16 years, 4 months ago

ouch!

I see a feature request? laugh

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beefknuckle Reply #6, 16 years, 4 months ago

Around line 434 of jot.class.inc.php, where it gets the comment count and assembles the comments, I threw in a little if/else statement that fills the "contents" variable with my preferred text if the count is 0. I would think we would just throw in another parameter and print its contents out there if it wasn’t empty.

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sunchess Reply #7, 15 years, 4 months ago

Could you tell more indepth how to do this if/else?

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Alik Reply #8, 15 years, 4 months ago

Patching Jot’s core code for this simple purpose is groundless (it will make possible upgrade a nightmare). This is easily solved with such overlay to Jot:

<?php
/* 
 JotExtNoComments Snippet written by http://setpro.net.pl/
 Parameters:
   id -> id of the document that Jot is bind to (default: current document)
   jotChunk -> chunk that will be used for calling Jot when the document already has comments (required)
   jotChunkNoComments -> chunk that will be used for calling Jot when the document has no comments so far (required)
 Example:
   [[JotExtNoComments? &jotChunk=`Comments` &jotChunkNoComments=`NoComments`]]
*/
$jotChunk = isset($jotChunk) && $jotChunk ? $jotChunk : '<p class="error">You forgot to pass a chunk for calling Jot.</p>';
$jotChunkNoComments = isset($jotChunkNoComments) && $jotChunkNoComments ? $jotChunkNoComments : '<p class="error">You forgot to pass a chunk for calling Jot (no comments variant).</p>';
$jot_params = array(
  'action' => 'count-comments',
  'id' => (isset($id) && $id ? $id : $modx->documentObject['id'])
);
$count = $modx->runSnippet('Jot', $jot_params);
return $count ? $modx->getChunk($jotChunk) : $modx->getChunk($jotChunkNoComments);
?>

If you remove my comments it will appear that it has just several lines of code, but this code will for sure survive possible upgrade with no further efforts. Tested.

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mrhaw Reply #9, 15 years, 4 months ago

@alik: T H A N K Y O U ! cool

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lokust Reply #10, 14 years, 4 months ago

Another thank you over here wink

- just what I needed!