How can I delete a homepage field from a comment form?

Posted by takaki on May 28, 2007 at 10:31pm

I would like to delete a homepage field in a comment form. There are 5 field in a comment; your name, email, homepage, subject, and comment. I just want to keep name, email, and comment.

I could erase subject field by changing the setting at the admin menu, but for homepage field, I suppose I need to modify a comment.module, but I am not sure how to edit it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Takaki

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Hi Takaki, As a default I

Posted by SabbeRubbish on May 28, 2007 at 11:01pm

Hi Takaki,

As a default I think there are only 2 fields for comment: Subject and Body.
So obviously, you don't need to edit comment.module.

It seems you have may have module installed to configure the way people comment on your posts, which adds extra fields to the comments. Try to identify that module and configure it.

Hope this helped,

SabbeRubbish

Hope this helps,

SabbeRubbish

Hi SabbeRubbish, Thank you

Posted by takaki on May 29, 2007 at 1:20am

Hi SabbeRubbish,

Thank you for your help.

I should have said that this is for anonymous user. I set my drupal to accept a comment from
anonymous. Then the comment form include those fields I mentioned in my original post.

I have installed only one module which is muti-ping sites module and I do no think it is related to comment field.

Thank you.

Takaki

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Long shot but I think it

Posted by somes on May 29, 2007 at 12:00am

Long shot but I think it should work

create a node-comment.tpl.php and test it to see if it over writes the default comment node then you can code the parts of the comments that you would like to appear

run a search on google for "node-comment.tpl.php"
see if that helps

Hi Somes, I suppose you

Posted by takaki on May 29, 2007 at 1:34am

Hi Somes,

I suppose you meant this: http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment

Sounds like it can do what I want, but I am more lean towards editting a comment.module
because deleting one field from the comment form should not be that difficult.

Anyway, I will try this if there is no other way.

Thank you.

Takaki

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Posted by VM on May 29, 2007 at 1:38am

Just a note that altering a core.module while possible, makes it a pain to upgrade or update, as all changes will need to be done again.

If you really want to remove this from the core comment module, I believe you can look for the form array. search the code using homepage as your search term, find the form array and comment it out, it may be in two places.

I agree with

Posted by SabbeRubbish on May 29, 2007 at 8:16am

I agree with VeryMisunderstood,

Don't change the core modules at any cost! It will make an upgrade not only time-consuming but very discouraging, which would make you not update and leave some security bugs and such in...

Anyway, overriding the template seems like the best shot to me, you can easily migrate and upgrade that code. Of course, you will have to do some coding and take a look at the form API, but the gain compared to editing the core module is great I think.

I though I had a solution at the beginning of this post, but I've lost it...

SabbeRubbish

Hope this helps,

SabbeRubbish

Then I will look into

Posted by takaki on May 30, 2007 at 3:26am

Then I will look into overriding the template approach.

Thank you all for your advice!

Takaki

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just had another look at this

Posted by somes on May 30, 2007 at 9:54am

After reading you email again I think what your looking at doing is stopping the field from appearing at all in the "form" and not just removing it from the comment node

to do this I think you'll have to override the form API that outputs the form field I haven't tried anything like that

http://drupal.org/node/124849
ie edit the comment_form_alter

by the way how did you manage to enable the home page - you can disable it also, it doesnt appear on a virgin installation of 5

do let us know how you get on

Were you successful?

Posted by bgilday on June 21, 2007 at 12:13am

Takaki -

Were you able to remove the homepage field? If so, what approach did you use? Any details would be appreciated. I would like to do the same thing on one of my sites.

Thanks.

Brian Gilday
Aha Consulting, Inc.
www.ahaconsulting.com

shifthappens, Sorry, I have

Posted by takaki on November 4, 2007 at 1:07pm

shifthappens,

Sorry, I have not cheked this thread for a long time... and I have not tried this.

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Generic module to hide/remove form fields?

Posted by levavie on September 25, 2007 at 3:23pm

Once, in the last months, I've seen a generic module which gives a GUI to hook_form_alter to remove/hide fields but I don't remember it's name.

Please advise

Thanks in advance,

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Check formfilter

Posted by levavie on September 25, 2007 at 9:56pm

I've now found formfilter - it is a really great module and allows to remove hidden form fields and collapse extra definition below the form.

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One way to do it

Posted by daveander on October 30, 2007 at 5:08pm

add the following to your template.php file

function phptemplate_comment_form($form) {
   return _phptemplate_callback('comment-form', array('form' => $form));
}

create a file called comment-form.tpl.php

<?php //comment-form.tpl.php 

  $form['homepage'] = null;
  print drupal_render($form);

?>

This worked as needed.

Posted by Rob T on December 6, 2007 at 7:46am

This worked as needed. Thanks.

If using a version prior to 5.0...

Posted by IGadmin on January 17, 2008 at 4:31am

Replace 'drupal_render' in line 4 of the comment-form.tpl.php with 'form_render'.

I incorporated this change on 4.7.6 with the above tweak, and it's working great.

Worked for me

Posted by asimov on March 15, 2008 at 11:54am

Worked for me too, though I don't understand why it works.

Another way

Posted by scottpayne on March 5, 2008 at 11:03pm

Hi,

I managed to do this with a custom module, in the form_alter hook:

global $user;
if (!$user->uid && $form_id == 'comment_form') 
{
    unset($form['homepage']);
}

I'm a bit of a PHP newbie so I don't know if this has any repercussions, but I think it's a bit cleaner than editing core module stuff.

What the module?

Posted by cakka on July 24, 2008 at 3:22am

Takaki, i am searching the comment module with 5 field like you said. Can you give me about the name and download link ?
I get some problem when searching , the information that i get is not specific like i need. So i am being confused about what the module name.

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I do that with css

Posted by yoda-fr on October 29, 2008 at 2:48pm

I do that with css :
#edit-homepage-wrapper{
display:none;
}

it works form me!

Simple and effective CSS option

Posted by Valkyri9 on May 4, 2011 at 4:34pm

Thank you, @yoda-fr - I added this to the fresh.css file of my Zen subtheme and that immediately resolved this issue for me. Greatly appreciated!

I tried this twice

Posted by OnlineWD™ on May 8, 2009 at 1:49am

I tried this twice http://drupal.org/node/147502#comment-286019 and it does not work with latest version of Drupal, does nothing. I really need this as I'm using the comments as a contact form for specific nodes. The homepage field is irrelevant, any ideas?

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Lullabot discusses a couple

Posted by wnicklin on June 2, 2009 at 11:58am

Lullabot discusses a couple of techniques to modify forms: Modifying Forms in Drupal 5 and 6. I followed their theme override instructions to remove the homepage field from the comments form on a Drupal 6 installation, and it worked well for me.

First register the override in your template.php file (my example uses a zen subtheme):

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of HOOK_theme().
 */
function YOUR-THEME-NAME_theme(&$existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  $hooks = zen_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path);
  $hooks['comment_form'] = array('arguments' => array('form' => NULL));
  return $hooks;
}
?>

Then, create a function specific for the comment form in your theme (also in template.php), with code to suppress the homepage field:

<?php
function YOUR-THEME-NAME_comment_form($form) {
  $output = '';
  unset ($form['homepage']);
  $output .= drupal_render($form);
  return $output;
}
?>

Of course, make sure to change "YOUR-THEME-NAME" to the name of your theme. In D6, also need to clear the cache under admin/settings/performance to make sure the site recognizes your changes.

@wnicklin I tried your code,

Posted by robertdjung on July 15, 2009 at 10:07pm

I thought there was an error with your wnicklin's code, but checking my PHP error log, I noted that my zen subtheme already had

THEMENAME_theme{
}

defined! Therefore I needed to add just

$hooks['comment_form'] = array('arguments' => array('form' => NULL));

to the previously defined over-ride.

Thanks for the code help, and I hope this detail helps someone else.

This worked for me. Just make

Posted by dsanchez on September 10, 2010 at 1:43pm

This worked for me. Just make sure to delete this line if you are not using the Zen theme (otherwise it will cause Warnings)

$hooks = zen_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path);

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Got it to work, think I got

Posted by OnlineWD™ on July 15, 2009 at 10:24pm

Got it to work, think I got it from this topic some where don't know but am using custom module ..

<?php
// $Id: customcomments.module

/**
* @file
* Custom functions for this site.
*/


/**
* Unset these form elements from the comment_form using hook_form_alter
*/
function customcomments_form_comment_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
  unset($form['_author']);
  unset($form['_homepage']);
  unset($form['homepage']);
  unset($form['comment_filter']['comment']['#title']);
}

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This is great, using form_alter hook

Posted by robbin.zhao on October 13, 2009 at 2:00am

This is great, using form_alter hook, but please add check

function {module_name}_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if($form_id == 'comment_form') {
unset($form['_author']);
unset($form['_homepage']);
unset($form['homepage']);
unset($form['comment_filter']['comment']['#title']);
}
}

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I really do not want the

Posted by Rhino on January 12, 2010 at 10:25am

I really do not want the Homepage field in the comment form, and none of the solutions found in the forum are working for me. Is there a new way to do this in Drupal 6?

This might help you

Posted by casperloc76 on January 12, 2010 at 8:52pm

Copy and paste this code into your template file.

/**
* Implementation of HOOK_theme().
*/
function THEMENAME_theme() {
return array(
	'comment_form' => array(                        
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
    ),
  );
}

Remember you can only have one instance of HOOK_theme in your template file so combine this with your existing one.

Then insert this piece of code below and change to your needs

// theme the comment form
function THEMENAME_comment_form($form) {
  // Make the text-area smaller.
  $form['comment_filter']['comment']['#rows']   = 5;
  // Change the text-area title
  $form['comment_filter']['comment']['#title']  = t('Your message');
  // Remove input formats information.
  $form['comment_filter']['format'] = NULL;
  // Removes homepage field
  unset($form['homepage']);
  // Removes preview button 
  unset($form['preview']);              
  return drupal_render($form);
}

Ah, so that's what I was

Posted by Rhino on February 1, 2010 at 11:57pm

Ah, so that's what I was doing wrong. Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the code

Posted by HenryLTV on March 29, 2010 at 4:46pm

Thanks for the code @casperloc76. Your HOOK_theme solution worked to unset the "Homepage" field from the form and it no longer shows.

But the issue I have now is that if you set the "Anonymous poster MUST leave contact information" option in the "Comment Settings" of the desired Content Type (ie. Forum or Blog), the form will never submit since "Homepage" is still a required field for the POST. I have this setting b/c i'd like to require the user to enter their "Name", but neither display NOR require the "Homepage" field.

Any suggestions for doing this in the theme?

Or is writing a custom module defining hook_form_alter the only option?

Thanks!

Thanks @wnicklin.. Your

Posted by msathesh on May 25, 2011 at 10:04am

Thanks @wnicklin.. Your solution worked for me in a drupal 6.x installation.. Thanks..

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Add this to your

Posted by HS on December 22, 2011 at 8:51pm

Add this to your CSS:

#edit-homepage-wrapper {
display: none;
}