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));
}
}

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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:

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.