By Helldesigner on

Hi

First of all, I'm a Drupal newbie - but I already can appreciate its unparalleled flexibility and functionality. Using the great handbooks at Drupal.org I've been able to achieve almost everything I wanted to do in my theme, however there is one thing I just can't wrap my head around. Namely - comment form display. I've got a faint idea of how to modify the form's content (custom module + Form API) - which is far too complicated as for theming needs by the way - but there's another thing: how, oh, how can I change the form's placement? I've been searching handbooks and the very forum, but to no avail.

As far as I understand it, by default the form is a part of $content variable, which is available in the node.tpl.php. But let's suppose I don't want the comment form right beneath my post (I'm putting together a blog). I want it in a sidebar or the footer. How can I make it happen? Is there any way to do it without messing with the /modules/comment/comment.module file? Hopefully, there is, otherwise this is a great flaw of the theming system.

Looking forward to any pointers. Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

The comment form seems to be added at the end of the thread in this function: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/comment_render

I think the comment module is not really using appropriately the new node rendering mechanism with structured content.

This is where the above function is called: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/node_show

It's worth looking in the patch queue to see if anyone has classified this as a bug yet.

However, one thing you could do is to put a comment form elsewhere using:

comment_form_box(array('nid' => $nid), t('Post new comment'));

OR

drupal_get_form('comment_form', array('nid' => $nid), t('Post new comment'));

This would probably work best if you disable the display of the comment form on the same page as the node.

see: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/comment_form_box

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Helldesigner’s picture

Helldesigner commented

Hi pwolanin

Thanks for the quick reply. Had some problems with the code initially (it was rendering
's action param without node's ID - so I couldn't really post any comments with such a form), but as soon as I changed

array('nid' => $nid)

to this:

array('nid' => $node->nid)

it worked like a charm :) Thanks a lot!

Best
Kamil