By Apollo610 on

Hello everyone,

First and foremost, I ask for mercy because I know this question has GOT to be answered somewhere but I can't find it. So please got easy on me and don't hurt me too much. :)

Now with that out of the way - what I'm looking to do is take the $links variable being passed to a theme'd template I've made (node-story_comments.tpl.php) and pluck the various array elements out and put them where I'd like.

Available $links:

				  Array
(
    [comment_add] => Array
        (
            [title] => Comment
            [href] => comment/reply/14
            [attributes] => Array
                (
                    [title] => Add a new comment to this page.
                )
            [fragment] => comment-form
        )
    [node_read_more] => Array
        (
            [title] => Read more
            [href] => node/14
            [attributes] => Array
                (
                    [title] => Read the rest of Test Story.
                )
        )
    [ignore_user] => Array
        (
            [title] => Ignore user
            [href] => ignore_user/add/5
            [query] => destination=node
            [attributes] => Array
                (
                    [class] => ignore-user
                    [title] => Add user to your ignore list
                )
        )
)

So for example, at this stage all I would want to do is take the content from comment_add and output it in a div as a link so I can style it, like: <div id="addcomment"> <?php $comment_add ?> </div> . I just don't know how to do this properly. Since what I want to do is relatively minor I think it's just better to theme it in a template than a preprocessor function...

However, my lack of PHP and Drupal syntax handling are causing this to be more of an issue than it should be - regardless of how much reading I'm doing.

Thanks everyone, and happy holidays!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

RockSoup’s picture

RockSoup commented

how about something like:

<div id="addcomment">
  <a href="<?php print $links->comment_add["href"]; ?>"><?php print $links->comment_add["attributes"]["title"]; ?></a>
</div>

my syntax might be a bit off, but that is the jist. Kind of a tedious task rebuilding the output, but definitely provides the control that can make theming easier.

ckng’s picture

ckng
Primary language English
commented

I've always do this in template tpl.php

<?php if (user_access('post comments')): ?>
  <div class="add-comment"><?php print l(t('Add new comment'), 'comment/reply/'.$node->nid, array('title' => t('Add a new comment to this page.')), NULL, 'comment-form', FALSE, FALSE); ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Optionally, you want to unset the $links['comment_add'].

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CK Ng | myFineJob.com

Apollo610’s picture

Apollo610 commented

Thank you guys for your feedback, it's been a huge help.

Can you tell me what the syntax/method for unsetting variables in Drupal is so that it affects only the template? That would probably be the best way to go in most situations, but I don't want the unset to affect all the other template pages.

So for example, I would want to do something like this (which doesn't work): <?php unset($links['comment_add']); ?>

Thank you guys again!