I’d like to able to individually link to each comment on my page as they’re posted.  I’ve searched the wiki but haven’t found the exact answer.

Essentially, when you post a comment, it would say:

Joe on 5/28 at 11:48 AM

I’d like the 11:48 AM link to provide a link directly to that comment.

Pandagonian:

Check out:  http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/comment/entries.html#var_comment_entry_id_auto_path

I think that should do it for you.

-greg

Edit:  fixed the link.

Is there a way to make it jump to the comment in question?  Right now, it just loads at the top of the entry.

I suppose that you could put the following tag on each one:

or this might help:

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/comment/entries.html#var_permalink

I hope that can get you down the right path.

-greg

Greg A. is spot on, although I’d use {entry_id} for building the HTML anchor, since it is guaranteed not to change. So, I use something like:

Makes sense?

I’ve been trying to do the same things, but you guys lost me.

On my index page I have:

I’d like the link for the title of the entry to go directly to the comment its referencing. I’m just not sure where either of you guys are saying to place

Does this go on the index page, or the comment page, or both.

Sorry for being dense.

My comment page looks like this:

I think Ingmar meant to say, {comment_id}.  So your main link to the comment will be something like:

And on the destination page, you put your “a name” tag:

Thanks grant. Although, I must still not be putting the

in the right place.

When I click the title of comment it doesn’t even take me to the correct entry…

I’m not the brightest bulb when it comes to this stuff… Can anyone give me a little more guidance here?

You put it next to each comment, then you link to each comment by doing something like:

24 being the comment Id.

Read here for the skinny on link names/anchors.

Also, check out Veerle’s Blog on how she did comment anchors.

Hope that helps,

-greg

Thanks! I’ll keep at it and let ya’ll know how I make out. I have a feeling I’ll be back with more questions though.

We have all asked a ton of questions here.  Just pay it forward when you have the answer.   

Good luck & make sure to let us know how it comes out! 

-greg

I got it working!

However whenever the comments paginate over more than one page, this doesn’t work. How do I get it to link to those comments? When the comments paginate over to another page, this is what loads:

But what I need is:

or P50, P75, etc.

Any idea how to accomplish this?

Not sure if that is an inherent EE functionality.  With that said, you may need to submit a feature request or come up with a cool extension.

Greg Aker - 28 May 2008 12:54 PM

<a name="#{count}"></a>Joe on 5/28 at 11:48 AM said:

You don’t need to use empty anchors with the name attribute. You can link internally to any element with an ID, so presumably your text will be wrapped in a paragraph or list item or something so it would be this instead:

and do away with the extra empty element. (Remember that IDs can’t start with numerals so you have to put some alphabetical characters in front of the ID#.)