Let users edit comments for up to an hour after posting

Maybe this is not a bad idea! But I think you should also prevent users
from altering their comments when any subsequent comment has
already been posted. And for typos 1 hour limit seems a bit too long,
better 15-30 min.

this got in already

I don't think so. I don't see anything about "own comments" in admin/user/access or anywhere else.

Editing and deleting own comments are much requested features where Drupal falls short of the "competition".

Oops. The code was old.

I did this in my 5.5 install. It seems to be working fine.

This thread is a little old a but I propose an additional addition: comments revisions. Since the status of the above is unclear (http://drupal.org/node/228112) assigning to myself for the time being.

Regarding comment revisions, you may want to check this module if you haven't already.

http://drupal.org/project/comment_revisions

Thanks (I had searched for every module starting with "comments*".) Though my point was more "everything is a node," I'll take a look at the code.

Here is a patch for 5.7
It is based on the one from #3

I added
#mod start and
#mod end for each mod, to make future updates easier. :)
it also contains the original parts commented out.

--- Desktop/drupal-5.7/modules/comment/comment.module 
+++ htdocs/drupal/modules/comment/comment.module 
@@ -212,7 +212,10 @@
  * Implementation of hook_perm().
  */
 function comment_perm() {
-  return array('access comments', 'post comments', 'administer comments', 'post comments without approval');
+#mod start
+  #return array('access comments', 'post comments', 'administer comments', 'post comments without approval');
+   return array('access comments', 'post comments', 'administer comments', 'post comments without approval', 'edit own comments', 'edit all comments');
+#mod end
 }
 
 /**
@@ -560,6 +563,17 @@
     '#options' => array(t('Display on separate page'), t('Display below post or comments')),
   );
 
+#mod start
+  $form['posting_settings']['comment_edit_duration'] = array(
+    '#type' => 'textfield',
+    '#title' => t('Comment edit duration (seconds)'),
+    '#description' => t('Enter the length of time for which users with \'edit own comments\' permission should be able to edit their own comments.  Enter 0 if you would like to allow users to edit comments for ever.'),
+    '#default_value' => variable_get('comment_edit_duration', 0),
+    '#size' => 10,
+    '#maxlength' => 10,
+  );
+#mod end
+
   return system_settings_form($form);
 }
 
@@ -575,8 +589,19 @@
   global $user;
 
   if ($op == 'edit') {
-    return ($user->uid && $user->uid == $comment->uid && comment_num_replies($comment->cid) == 0) || user_access('administer comments');
-  }
+#mod start
+    #return ($user->uid && $user->uid == $comment->uid && comment_num_replies($comment->cid) == 0) || user_access('administer comments');
+	if      ($user->uid && $user->uid == $comment->uid && comment_num_replies($comment->cid) == 0 && user_access('edit own comments') || user_access('administer comments') ) {
+      if (variable_get('comment_edit_duration', 0) == 0 || user_access('administer comments') ) {
+        return TRUE;
+      } else {
+        return (($comment->timestamp + variable_get('comment_edit_duration', 0)) > time());
+      }
+    } else {
+      return (user_access('edit all comments'));
+    }
+#mod end
+   }
 }
 

doubleklicked :-/

The patch from #3 and #12 locked out the admin from editing comments after the countdown has finished. Improved version on #12

OK, pretty new to Drupal and definitely not strong in PHP.... so this code should work in 5.x? And can I paste it whole in comment.module or just the parts between "+mod start" and "+mod end"?
I'll be sure to back up before I try this, too.

OK, figured out that if you mannually apply a patch, you remove lines beginning with - and add lines beginning w/+.
Did that, but what happens is:
1. All comment module permissions disappear from Access Control (the Comment module doesn't show at all)
2. Users can't edit their comments at all

So something's clearly not quite right in my code. Maybe this is because I'm using 5.11? Or maybe I missed something else? Can anyone help me find the trouble? I'm attaching the hacked version of my comment.module.

Also, if somebody wants to made a working module out of this for 5.x, I'd sure be interested in that... maybe even willing to pay for it interested (hope this isn't the wrong place to say that).

this patch was for 5.7
I have not tried to apply it to the 5.12er version.
applying patches manually is very hard. if your module disappears completely, you might have messed something up. see here also: http://drupal.org/node/60108

Well the patch wasn't all that large... it looks way easier to put it in manually than to download and install all the stuff needed to apply it.
Anybody know if there were changes to comment.module between 5.7 and 5.11 (I'm actually still on 5.11)? Doesn't seem likely there would be much. Maybe I should just do it again from scratch and see if can find anything I missed.

No, no changes to comment.module between 5.7 and 5.11 (see http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/drupal/modules/comment/comment.mo...)

Eureka!!

I hope it's OK to post the entire comment.module code here. Will do as attachment.
What happened was that in manually putting in the patch, I had accidentally removed function comment_perm{stuff here} Had the "stuff here" w/o the actual function.

Anyway, as fixed, it's working so far in 5.11. For folks who "can't patch" (like me) here's the whole thing. Just remove "txt" from the end.
"#mod" marks the altered areas.
Of course, when it comes time to upgrade, will have to rewrite in new comment.module... unless maybe somebody can tell me how to do this with overrides in template.php and/or comment.tpl.php?

I've created a patch for drupal 6. This is my first very small contribution to Drupal community!

Feature requests need to be filled against the latest development version (Drupal 7) at this time.

Please disregard the file attached earlier. Use the file attached with this comment.

Please disregard the file attached earlier. Use the file attached with this comment.

Please send a patch primary, not whole module.
If drupal developers will do any changes in comment.module in version 6.13, this module file will be useless.

Patch is always better.
Thanks for your work, will be great to have working patch (or list of changes at least) from you.

Igorik

FYI, the Comment Edit module now includes time-limited editing.

Hi, Is somewhere special "Comment edit" module or you think these patches on this page?

I looked for that module but I found nothing with name "Comment edit"

Can you suggest url for it?

Thanks
Igor

It's actually Coment Edited I guess. Seems to work well for us. We have a forum with about 700 active users.
Here's a link...
http://drupal.org/project/comment_edited

This worked for me in Drupal 5. Thanks maulwuff!

Feature requests need to go into Drupal 8.x first, then they can be backported if appropriate.

This is an excellent usecase for a contrib module to implement. It adds complexity to code and UI that far from everyone needs. There are a wide range of modules that solved most of what's been discussed here. Comment edited is one of them.