Show Comment count in node.tpl.php

Yay! You can probably change how 0 comments show up in the Disqus administration section. Out of scope for this module, unfortunately. Would have to be on the Disqus end.

You can use: print theme('disqus_comments_num', $node->disqus['domain'], $node->disqus['url']); in Drupal 6

How about a 7.x solution?

These seems like it should be a checkbox on the node settings, or possibly something integrated with managing field display.

There's some minimal work to be done here, as the current codebase does not provide the necessary API functionality to easily hack this. I want it more like an on-demand Views' field, which seems to take some more work. Attached patch does a basic refactor of existing code to at least isolate the behavior outside of Views.

Reroll

+++ b/disqus.module
@@ -808,6 +808,59 @@ function disqus_variable_group_info() {
+ * Display the comments for a given node.
+ *
+ * @param int $nid
+ *   ID of the requested node.
+ * @param bool $render
+ *   Set to FALSE to retrieve the render array.
+ *
+ * @return array|string
+ */
+function disqus_view_comment_count($nid, $render = TRUE) {
+  // Ensure Disqus comments are available on the node user has access to edit this node.
+  $node = node_load($nid);
+  if (user_access('view disqus comments') && isset($node->disqus)) {

Could we use the same function also in hoo_node_view where we add comment count to teasers?

I took a quick look at this, and I think you can. I haven't tested this patch at all, but I think it just might work.

Note that the existing behavior in hook_node_view() adds the disqus information as "links" to the existing links structure. This patch replaces it as a singular link added to that structure.

It looks that this brakes teaser link. It simply disappears.

You can get the comment_count from node_load($nid);

<?php
$comment_count = $node->comment_count;
?>

This could use some minor refactoring to include the new Panels content_type plugin.