Place content (blocks) before Comments

I think this can be done, but it will be trisky ;).

Give this a shot:

In comment.tpl.php, put everything (including HTML) into a global variable:

global $comments_data;
$comments_data = 'the actual data here';

And, don't print/echo/output anything in this file.

Then just make a new block with the following content (PHP Input enabled):

global $comments_data;
print $comments_data;

And... you can make other blocks that go above this one.

Let us know how it goes.

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You can assign a region to node.tpl.php in Drupal 5, which will allow to you print content between the node content and the comments (comment form prints below node content or comments as per normal).

You need a couple of things - a new region & set a variable in phptemplate_variables in template.php and finally print the region in node.tpl.php.

As an exercise I did this for Bluemarine in Drupal 5.

template.php - create a new region and make it available in node.tpl.php

<?php
// regions
function bluemarine_regions() {
  return array(
    'left' => t('left sidebar'),
    'right' => t('right sidebar'),
    'header' => t('header'),
    'footer' => t('footer'),
    'content_bottom' => t('content bottom'),
    'closure_region' => t('closure'),
  );
}
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
  global $user;

  switch ($hook) {
  
    case 'page':
      break;

    case 'node':
      $vars['content_bottom'] = theme('blocks', 'content_bottom');
      break;

    case 'comment':
      break;
  }
  return $vars;
}

node.tpl.php

  <div class="node<?php if ($sticky) { print " sticky"; } ?><?php if (!$status) { print " node-unpublished"; } ?>">
    <?php if ($picture) {
      print $picture;
    }?>
    <?php if ($page == 0) { ?><h2 class="title"><a href="<?php print $node_url?>"><?php print $title?></a></h2><?php }; ?>
    <span class="submitted"><?php print $submitted?></span>
    <span class="taxonomy"><?php print $terms?></span>
    <div class="content"><?php print $content?></div>
    <?php if ($links) { ?><div class="links">&raquo; <?php print $links?></div><?php }; ?>
	
    <!-- the new region in a div -->
    <div class="content_bottom"><?php print $content_bottom; ?></div>
  </div>

Now you can print whatever you want there in block etc etc.

Another way (yes, there is another way!) - if the content you want to print is a View, just print the view directly in the node template, e.g if your view is a block view...

<?php
  $view_name = 'myview'; //name of view
  $view_args = array();
  $view = views_get_view($view_name);
  print views_build_view('block', $view, $view_args, FALSE, $view->nodes_per_block);
?>

Hope that helps some, good luck!

As an FYI...And I too am trying to figure this out, and create a module with my custom functions. So far, just to let you all know, in response to what pmg's said:

- node.tpl

Unfortunately the whole node content including comments is in $content, so there no way to put something in between.

I my hours of digging I found that comments are NOT part of a nodes $content, and it takes a ton of functions to show a single node. Refer to the API node_show. And note that node_show is not the last function before a full node is shown, it is called by another function.

Creating a region is a good idea, or modifying the the node template. If it is at possible through a custom module to have content render between node and comments would be great too, without the user having to modify their node template, but I haven't found the solution to that yet without hacking core. What best to do probably depends on "what" a person is trying acheive.

I googled around to search this problem and found below URL
http://www.innovatingtomorrow.net/2007/12/11/how-embed-region-node

But you know what, it missed the last step i.e. print the blocks in node.tpl.php file :)

Thank a lot for complete steps.. You could see it working here Java Examples now.

Regards,
Rahim.