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Comment count as a variable in node.tpl.php

Posted by ximo on November 5, 2009 at 10:38am
Project:Disqus
Version:6.x-1.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:ximo
Status:active

Issue Summary

Comment count is shown in the $links variable in node.tpl.php, which is fine for most I suppose.

But $links isn't very flexible, and it would be really nice to have this as a stand-alone variable in node.tpl.php. A disqus_preprocess_node() should be able to do this.

Note to self: cook up a patch that introduces this.

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#1

Posted by Igor Kandyba on February 13, 2010 at 4:27pm

Subscribing

#2

Posted by noslokire on July 8, 2010 at 9:03pm

Subscribing..

#3

Posted by jumpfightgo on August 10, 2010 at 9:29pm

Unfortunately the number of comments isn't store anywhere server-side so all we can do is print the theme function that will use javascript to replace the link "Comments" with "X Comments". (That's how the existing comments link works in the $links variable.)

<?php print theme('disqus_comments_num', $SHORTNAME, 'node/'. $node->nid, t('Comments')); ?>

To do more I think we need to dig into drupal behaviors in disqus.js

#4

Posted by teastburn85 on September 7, 2010 at 11:25pm

Also, I think the it was implemented with JS because it most systems it will ruin caching if the comment counts keep changing in the page HTML. This is not the case if your caching is strictly time based.

#5

Posted by frob on December 28, 2010 at 7:03pm

subscribling

#6

Posted by espenmoe on January 20, 2011 at 9:25pm

subscribing

#7

Posted by erdembey on April 3, 2011 at 12:08am

subscribing for D7

#8

Posted by fiil123 on April 3, 2011 at 10:19am

Subscribing

#9

Posted by erdembey on April 3, 2011 at 7:30pm

Let me provide a bad solution for this :) ;

In drupal 7 i can manage to isolate the comment count in $links with hiding the other variables in $links.
For example;

<?php
      hide($content['links']);
      hide($content['links']['statistics']);
      hide($content['links']['node']);
?>

With this method i can prevent the read count and read more text appearing with comment count.
After that i can use

<?php
      print render($content['links']);
?>

without a problem.

Btw. i see 0 comments where it should be 0 comment (isn't it?) and also it seems localization is not available in this context.

#10

Posted by datawench on May 25, 2011 at 1:46am

Is this theming function an incomplete feature? I don't see anything in the function that actually pulls the number of comments from the API. It seems to just render a linked bit of text.