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Hi folks,

I may be missing something crucial here but want I want to do is style the comment for the author who wrote the article so their comments appear different from the others.

I’ve read many of the other tutorials on how to do this but can’t seem to get it working. I have no membership functionality on the website in question so anyone can post a comment, but the comments are moderated. Is this why it’s not working? because all the other tutorials assume you are logged in first?

One thing I can’t seem to understand is if I’m the author of the article and I go back to comment on it (and I’m logged into the CMS in another tab), shouldn’t it know that I’m logged in to the CMS? My logged in conditionals don’t seem to have any effect and it seems that I’m logged out all the time.

Any help appreciated

Please see this article in the wiki to get you started. Moving to Howto.

Hi Ingmar,

I tried a couple of those and they didn’t work. If I chuck a {author_id} into each comment they all output as “0”. Even a comment from the author who wrote the article.

Any ideas? is it ok that I don’t require anyone to login to post a comment?

Forgot to mention that I’m running the site locally but surely it should still work

Do you mind showing some code? Preferably the CSS you have, and the code where the comment is shown.

This is what I’m using currently to no success. There isn’t much going on in the CSS, just making the background of the <li> red so I can see if it works or not. Also checking in firebug, but the class on the <li> never changes

<ol class="commentList">
    
{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" dynamic="off" weblog="{segment_2}" url_title="{segment_3}"}
    
    {if no_results}There are no comments so far.{/if}

    <li id="comment-{comment_id}" {if entry_author_id == author_id} class="author"{/if}>
    
        <h3>{if url}<a href="http://{url}%22rel=%22external" rel="external nofollow">{/if}{name}{if url}</a>{/if}</h3>
<p>        {comment_date format="%l"}, {comment_date format="%M %d %Y"}<br />
        {comment} <br />
    </li></p>

<p>{/exp:comment:entries}<br />
</ol>

This is what I’m using currently to no success. There isn’t much going on in the CSS, just making the background of the <li> red so I can see if it works or not. Also checking in firebug, but the class on the <li> never changes

<ol class="commentList">
    
{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" dynamic="off" weblog="{segment_2}" url_title="{segment_3}"}
    
    {if no_results}There are no comments so far.{/if}

    <li id="comment-{comment_id}" {if entry_author_id == author_id} class="author"{/if}>
    
        <h3>{if url}<a href="http://{url}%22rel=%22external" rel="external nofollow">{/if}{name}{if url}</a>{/if}</h3>
<p>        {comment_date format="%l"}, {comment_date format="%M %d %Y"}<br />
        {comment} <br />
    </li></p>

<p>{/exp:comment:entries}<br />
</ol>

Sorry to keep throwing tasks at you, but have you tried comparing {entry_author_id} and {author_id} for each comment?

{entry_author_id} = {author_id}

Add that in and see if any of the entries are equal. This is just the way I troubleshoot things, if anyone has any better ideas then feel free to post!!

Good advice,

Each comment with…
{entry_author_id} = {author_id}

Comes out like…
428 = 0

428 is the member ID for the super user admin account. Even comments made by a non member come out as 428. Bit stumped on this one. I’ll set up a blank test page and start over, see if it works

is it ok that I don’t require anyone to login to post a comment?

Yes, but in this case EE will have no idea who the author was, and treat them all as “Anonymous”, using an id of 0. For this to work your commenters (particularly the original author) will have to login.

Ok thanks for clearing this up for me, thought I was missing something (first time using comments within EE).

I’ve got it all working now by simply providing a login form to the authors, and they just need to login and tick the “auto login”. When any of the members in the “authors” group make a comment on the article, their comment will highlight.

Thanks