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Just wasted some time on some really annoying comment issues, hope this post will help others that run into these problems.

Problem 1:
For some reason when you use the comment form you can’t use the group_id as a conditional. You can ACCESS the group_id but not parse with it. For example lets say you want to create a specific profile link for different member types; members group_id of 5 and premium member is 6:

{exp:comment:entries}

{if group_id = "6"}
 <a href="/premium-member">profile</a>
{if:else}
  <a href="/member">profile</a>
{/if}

{/exp:comment:entries}

No matter what you will get the else scenario.

My solution was to enable php and ouput a specific string based on the group_id value.

Problem 2:
Now I can’t get template paths to work OR the site_url to show anything. The only option you have is {url_title_path} or create an absolute path (/shudders). The url_title_path will create a global path with the entry title attached to the end (Almost there, but not quite. So frustrating). This may be great in some scenarios, but I think people would prefer just to be able to use the site_url or paths for flexibility.

My solution was to trim the end of the url_title_path using php. I did this by first grabbing the title value, replacing spaces with dashes and lowercasing it. Then I used rtrim php function to subtract that exact name from the end of the url. Tada! You now have the basic site_url address!

$path= "{url_title_path}";  //sets path variable
$title_url = str_replace(' ', '-', "{title}"); //replaces spaces with dashes
$title_url = strtolower($title_url); //lower cases
$clean_path = rtrim($path, $title_url); //your desired base path

Note: using 2.6.1 and threaded comments 3rd party

Hi ,

for first problem try to use group_id with parentheses:

{exp:comment:entries}
{if "{group_id}" = "6"}
 <a href="/premium-member">profile</a>
{if:else}
  <a href="/member">profile</a>
{/if}
{/exp:comment:entries}

for the second problem you can use the following code to get your site_url with PHP code::

$this->EE->config->item('site_url')

Regard’s.

Thanks, I knew there was a better solution then what I was doing :D