How to display comments in different place?

Hi,

I ended up paying someone for a solution to this problem. Here is the best way around this problem, to date. The solution has been tested on Drupal 5.1. Unfortunately it requires you to hack the core - just be sure to make a note to modify this again when you do an update to drupal core.

If you want to move the comment form to your liking, you need to call it (the comment form and comments) in the node-nodetype.tpl file... Here we go.

Open up node.module file and look for:

function node_show($node, $cid) {
    $node->cid = $cid;

    $output = node_view($node, FALSE, TRUE);

  if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment) {
    $output .= comment_render($node, $cid);
  }

  // Update the history table, stating that this user viewed this node.
  node_tag_new($node->nid);

  return $output;
} 

And modify that too:

function node_show($node, $cid) {
    $node->cid = $cid;

    $output = node_view($node, FALSE, TRUE);

//  if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment) {
//    $output .= comment_render($node, $cid);
//  }

  // Update the history table, stating that this user viewed this node.
  node_tag_new($node->nid);

  return $output;
} 

Then, you go to your node.tpl theme file and add this snippet where you want to call the comment form and comments:

if ($page == 1):
    if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment):
        print comment_render($node, $node->cid);
    endif;
endif; 

If you have several node types, and you want to only move the comment form and comments on let's say, node type blog, you would do this instead.

function node_show($node, $cid) {
  $output = node_view($node, FALSE, TRUE);

// modified this to be able to call the comment form + comments where needed
if ($node->type != 'blog'): // we are going to call it seperately, in the node-blog.tpl file...
  if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment) {
    $output .= comment_render($node, $cid);
  }
endif;

  // Update the history table, stating that this user viewed this node.
  node_tag_new($node->nid);

  return $output;
}

Then in the node-blog.tpl file, we add the same snippet as above:

if ($page == 1):
    if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment):
        print comment_render($node, $node->cid);
    endif;
endif;

Please reference this post on other posts where you have read about this problem, so the drupal community will find this solution easier...

Happy comment form and comments moving!

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I seem to have a working solution in Drupal 6. This isn't totally tested yet, but so far it is working nicely and i have a lot of faith in it.

To do it, open up your template.php and adapt the following to yours:

<?php

function phptemplate_preprocess_page($vars) {
  if (isset($vars['node'])) {
    $vars['comments'] = comment_render($vars['node']);
  }
}

function phptemplate_preprocess_node($vars) {
  unset($vars['node']->comment);
}

?>

This should make a $comments variable available to the page.tpl.php. Using the _phptemplate_variables() function, you should be able to do much the same in D5. This is just the first step I am sure, and I plan to play with it more over the weekend.

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Al "Zarabadoo" Steffen

how do I remove the existing comment now? I can move the comments to were ever I want but the existed comment is still under the node. How do I get rid of that?

Thanks, - Justin

Same question here - In Drupal 5, how do you move the comment form?

mcneelycorp's post from 9/19/07 (http://drupal.org/node/122240#comment-272809) is clearly described and works as advertised in Drupal 5.7

got that all wrong. sorry!

The Comment Display module does (in Drupal 6.x) what this thread tries to do. It prevents comments from displaying at the end of a node (i.e., at the end of $content) and creates a new variable called $comments, which you can place anywhere in page.tpl.php. (I'm not sure about node.tpl.php.)

Hi all,

Can anyone please tell me if the code posted earlier can be modified so that it only affects a specific node.tpl.php

My problem is that all comments have disappeared from other content types where I need the Comments to be displayed as normal :(

The code I'm using in my template.php is...

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  $vars['comments'] = $vars['comment_form'] = '';
  if (module_exists('comment') && isset($vars['node'])) {
    $vars['comments'] = comment_render($vars['node']);
    $vars['comment_form'] = drupal_get_form('comment_form', array('nid' => $vars['node']->nid));
  }
}

function phptemplate_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  $vars['node']->comment = 0;
}

I've tried to add an 'if' statement in the second function but it doesn't appear to work correctly as it will render the comments normally in other content types and twice in the modified node.tpl.php

I know the code is probably way off but I tried...

function phptemplate_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  if ($node->type == 'design_submissions'){
    $vars['node']->comment = 0;
  }
}

My node template is node-design_submissions and uses the following to render the comments and the form seperatley:

	$comments = comment_render($node);
	$comment_form = drupal_get_form('comment_form',array('nid' => $node->nid));

	print $comments;

and

	$comments = comment_render($node);
	$comment_form = drupal_get_form('comment_form',array('nid' => $node->nid));

	print $comment_form;

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Hi, i use the solution in http://drupal.org/node/122240#comment-707961 to move the form comment, but the form still shows the original site also.

I want to hide the original form and shown only that i want.

How i can hide the form??

Thanks

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Solved!

Hi, I would like to do the same thing in Drupal 7. Any ideas? I would like to have a blog like entries down the left side and then on the right side the comments for all those entries. Any thoughts?

I also needed to do this with Drupal 6, so I enhanced comment_bonus_api for this purpose.

In a nutshell, since the module already takes over node_show we have flexibility to do whatever we want with that function. I added an admin UI with a variable for each node type. You can now selectively enable/disable comment rendering on a per node type basis. This is generally in line with this idea: http://drupal.org/node/122240#comment-272809 but no core hacking is required.

Issue: #1555270: Selectively enable/disable comment rendering by node type

It's currently going to be in the -dev branch, so either use that or wait for 6.x-1.1 module release.

Note that if you use this approach you need to use comment_bonus_api_comment_render() to output your comments, not comment_render().

Here's what I dropped into my node-mynodetype-full.tpl.php:

<?php if ($node->comment): ?>
  <?php print comment_bonus_api_comment_render($node, $node->cid); ?>
<?php endif; ?>