provide at the node template as well

I agree whole-heartedly. This is a fantastic module, and making the $comments variable available to all node templates would make it amazing. Also this, or something similar should be part of core.

Ok I opened up the code and it is amazingly simple, so simple in fact, it might better be handled with some functions in your theme's template.php file. Anyway, I basically duplicated the page preprocess function as a new function comment_display_preprocess_node, which then makes the variable available to all node template files.

This is my first patch (simple as it may be) so please let me know if anything is awry.

I should probably commit the patch in #326342: Allow to output comments in a block to allow for this feature. Therefore, testing of the other issue would be appreciated.

I can't get that to work in a zen sub theme some reason.

Any ideas?

hi!

did you manage to make it work in a zen-subtheme so far?

greets,
walter

it works for me now... in the end i just put the preprocess function in the template and replaced the "phptemplate" prefix with the name of my theme ("eca"):

function eca_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
$vars['comments'] = '';
if (function_exists('comment_render') && !empty($vars['node']) && $vars['node']->comment) {
$arg2 = arg(2);
$vars['comments'] .= comment_render($vars['node'], ($arg2 && is_numeric($arg2) ? $arg2 : NULL));
}
}

____

in the node template you then have the $comment variable. i also had to print out the $links variable by hand, to get the "login or register to post comments" link, when there is no comment there already:

          print $comments;
         
          if(empty($comments))
            print $links;     

hth,
walter

Valderama's comments worked like a charm, just changed the theme's name to my theme's name and inserted that into template.php, then added the variable $comments to my node.tpl.php file.

Thanks!

Actually you can just call comment_display_preprocess_page in your template_preprocess_node, instead of copying the code inside that function.

This patch needs to be re-rolled due to #326342: Allow to output comments in a block

I couldn't get this to work. I put this in my template file:

function acquia_prosper_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
$vars['comments'] = '';
if (function_exists('comment_render') && !empty($vars['node']) && $vars['node']->comment) {
$arg2 = arg(2);
$vars['comments'] .= comment_render($vars['node'], ($arg2 && is_numeric($arg2) ? $arg2 : NULL));
}
}

And this in my node.tpl.php:

<?php
          print $comments;
        
          if(empty($comments))
            print $links;    
?>

It didn't work.

I have the plugin working fine, but my comment form is also being displayed on the node edit page, which is obviously undesirable.

No offense, but CommentBlock is a much better module. It uses Views and is much easier,, more flexible, and doesn't require changing of page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php. You might want to link to it from the front page of this module.

Here it is: http://drupal.org/project/commentblock

@#11,

I would not say your statement was offensive, but I do think it is rude, and at the least unwarranted. CommentBlock and Comment Display take a very different approach to the same problem. Comment Display I would guess based on it's approach is faster, while CommentBlock gives non-coding admin's control over the display.

Different, not better.

Sorry if it was rude, but it is much more flexible, and easier, and since it is views/block based can be customized much more.

Fair enough, and thanks for the link. I had not known about that project.