Theming and rendering refinements

alan dawson — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:40:58 +0100

The nodecomment module provides two views for comments

1. Threaded

2. Flat

There is a requirement to have a semi threaded view though. This is where replies indent one level, but no more after that. I've quickly done this the wrong way. By hacking the prebuilt views. :-(

Heres the diff

diff nodecomment_views.inc nodecomment_views.inc.drupal
368,371c368,369
< if ($last_depth < 1 ) {
< $divs++;
< $output .= '<div class="indented">';
< }
---
> $divs++;
> $output .= '<div class="indented">';
376,379c374,375
< if ($last_depth > 0) {
< $divs--;
< $output .= '</div>';
< }
---
> $divs--;
> $output .= '</div>';

Anyhow that works OK... until we need a full threaded view again.

The correct way would be to read the theming views documentation and create a new view and corresponding theme for the semithreaded view. .. later ;-)

Also there was a requirement to remove the "reply" link from the indented nodes. A change to the .tpl.php sorted this.

<?php
$node->depth = count(explode('.', $node->thread)) - 1;
if ($node->depth == 0): ?>
<div class="links clear-block"><?php print $links ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

Ie only print the links at the bottom if the nodecomment is a first level, rather than a reply to a reply. This should probably be refined further, so that users with the correct access rights / roles ( administer nodes ? comments ? ) will still see the links.

Creating an ULTRALAB hot seat clone in drupal

alan dawson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:49:28 +0100

OK .. rough notes on work in progress of the hot seat software ... basically so I can remember how to do it again.

There are quite a lot of settings to get right. Some through drupal, others on a shell on the webserver ( or however you mod the files on there )

Its work in progress but at this date can be found at http://hs.technologyandsocialaction.org

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