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Hello Guys,

Not getting the comment form to show up on the site I am doing. The build is 20100810. There are no extensions, and comments are turned on for the channel. Even when I use the default form it will not show, even in a new template on its own for debugging.

{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="20"}

{comment}

By {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"}

{/exp:comment:entries}

{exp:comment:form preview="channel/preview"}

{if logged_out}

Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" size="50" /></p>

Email: <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" size="50" /></p>

Location: <input type="text" name="location" value="{location}" size="50" /></p>

URL: <input type="text" name="url" value="{url}" size="50" /></p>

{/if}

<textarea name="comment" cols="70" rows="10">{comment}</textarea></p>

<input type="checkbox" name="save_info" value="yes" {save_info} /> Remember my personal information

<input type="checkbox" name="notify_me" value="yes" {notify_me} /> Notify me of follow-up comments?

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" />

{/exp:comment:form}

and url for test is. You can see its not in the source.

Is the form inside a weblog entries tag?

The main one is not, its sat below. And on the test page it is just the pure EE code.

Are you visiting the page with a URL title in it or just the template as it stands on it’s own?
I’ve not really used 2.0 all that much but I would still imagine that it requires a URL title in order to work here.

That or a supplied entry_id or url_title to the comment entries tag.

Best wishes,

Mark

I think Mark is correct. It looks like you made a template called “test” but you’re not calling in a channel entry.

I didn’t even see the URL example above! Viewing on an iPhone so missed it.

Try this 😊

http://www.ryandownie.net/index.php/test/test

Best wishes,

Mark

The comment tags and forms have to appear _within_ a weblog/channel:entries tag, don’t they, as they need to know what entry they relate to?

Edit: couple of other posts snuck in before I pressed submit…

The comment tags and forms have to appear _within_ a weblog/channel:entries tag, don’t they, as they need to know what entry they relate to?

Edit: couple of other posts snuck in before I pressed submit…

Nope as a general rule the comment entries tag should not go inside the channel entries tag. The url_title gives that information to the comment entries tag so 99 times out of a 100 you shouldn’t be nesting them like that.
Best wishes,

Mark

Ah, thanks Mark.  I didn’t check any of my existing templates before I posted - was just going from memory (which was way off!!). I could of sworn they were supposed to be inside the entries tag,  but I just checked them now and luckily I wasn’t embedding them.

Thanks again,
Paul.

Hi Paul,

No problem at all. It can sometimes be difficult to remember if tags can (and more importantly should [sounds like something from Jurassic Park!]) be nested in that way but I’ve committed them all to memory now due to a couple of problems I had early on when starting out with ExpressionEngine 😉

Hope this has helped you (Ryan) out a bit too though?

Hi Mark,

Sorry not had time to reply, I figured it out a few moments after I posted this, it was missing what you posted. Was a long session so brain was pretty much fried. Thanks for the help.

No problem.

Glad it’s all sorted for you now.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Ryan,

Glad that Mark and Jonathan got this sorted out for you.

Cheers

Greg

@Mark and Jonathan, thanks very much for helping out.