Comment question
Jeroen Coumans - March 5, 2006 - 11:13
Hi all,
I want to display the comments in an ordered list (<ol>). Each comment should be wrapped in a list item which I want to have alternate classes, e.g. <li class="odd"> and <li class="even">. How can I do this with phptemplate in 4.7? Any help is greatly apreciated.
You should be able to
You should be able to override the theme functions (used in the comment module) in your phptemplate theme. I'm pretty sure the docs cover this.
-K
Help me out here..?
I'm sorry, but I need a little more help; my PHP/programming skills are very limited (I'm a designer, not a software engineer). I'm sure the docs cover how to override theme functions, but I have no idea how to do this (and I couldn't find an example to get me started). What I have done right now is hack comment.module to output the proper code, but I'd rather have it in my template.php, obviously.
My hacked comment module: http://jeroencoumans.nl/files/hacked-comment (I use Drupal 4.7 beta 5/CVS)
I actually had a looksee
I actually had a looksee just now and themes (bluemarine for e.g.) come with a comment.tpl.php which looks like it should be enough to do what you want. The zebra striping might require a little code.. Something like (I'm extemporising here..):
<?phpif (!isset($GLOBALS['comemnt_tracker']) {
$GLOBALS['comment_tracker'] = 0;
}
if ($GLOBALS['comment_tracker']++ % 2 == 0) {
$zebra_class = 'even';
}
else {
$zebra_class = 'odd';
}
?>
<div class="comment <?php print $zebra_class; ?>"> ...I'm not familiar with the theming system either.. There very likely is a better way to do this, but this should do the trick fine..
The GLOBALS is required to retain the last value as each comment is added. The % operator in the code above is the modulo/remainder operator that is being used to check if the tracker is an even or odd number.
You can replace the existing mark-up with whatever you prefer.
Best of luck :)
-K