Keep track of comment count

With the color scheme patch in place, you are free to re-roll.

Just a quick note:
I didn't use this module, but I do use facebook comments on a D6 site instead of drupal comments.

I wanted to have the core `node_comment_statistics` table being updated each time a FB comment was made. This is easily done by applying a ajax callback and some custom code.

JS:

  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    /* new comment */
    FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function (response) {
      $.ajax({
        url: '/count/comment',
        data: 'js=1&path='+window.location.pathname,
        dataType: 'json',
        type: 'POST',
        success: function(data){
            alert(data); 
        }
      });
    });
  };

And in your php add a hook_menu for count/comment which does a db_query (and of course some validation).
You can also use 'comment.remove' to create a callback which counts down when somebody removes his/her comment.

The benefits of doing it this way is that the counts are available in core statistics/views/etc.

if you want to know the total no.of comments left on your page then the fb:comments-count tag will emit the number of comments on your URL in a tag. for eg: if you want to show no.of comments in dummy.com you can include the following :

<fb:comments-count href=http://dummy.com/></fb:comments-count> Total comments

Hope this might help you!

The attached patch adds a few changes that I had to make in order to meet the needs of a project. I'm sharing it in case it could help someone else.

The changes that this patch provides are:

• Implements an option for adding the comment count to node links as suggested on #4
• Switches from Graph to FQL for retrieving comments count. The Graph API was not reliable on my tests.
• To do the above, the use of Facebook PHP SDK was implemented.
• Added a debug option for showing the raw result from querying Facebook.
• Added README.txt file with instructions on how to install.

Note: This patch was made against version 7.x-1.x-dev from 2012-Aug-08 and it contains most of the code added on a previous patch by jackread on comment #3. Therefore; by applying this patch most changes from the other patch will be applied as well.

Please let me know if you find problems and thank you for creating this great module.

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