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Hi,

I am trying to implement a comment form to the blog section of a website I’m working on.  This is the code I currently have, and when I view the page nothing appears.

{exp:comment:form}
<label for="name">Name</label>

  <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" id="name" size="37" /></p>
  <label for="email">Email Address</label>

<input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" id="email" size="37" /></p>
  <label for="comment">Comment</label>
 
<textarea name="comment" rows="8" cols="35" id="comment">{comment}</textarea></p>

{/exp:comment:form}

Am I missing a link to the ‘blog’ channel? If so, where might I be able to put that

Thanks in advance

Is this code inside or outside the channel entries tag? It should be outside.

Also it’s a good idea to include the channel=“blog” parameter in the tag:

{exp:comment:form channel="blog"}

Thanks for the assist, kelly.

finfinwabbit - also make sure that when you call the template, you are passing a url_title to the url.

Example:

http://example.com/index.php/site/comments/some-entry-title

Does that help?

Hello,

I am having the same problem.

I am using:

EE Freelancer v2.1.3
Build 20101220

Structure 2.2.4
Freeform 3.0.6

The Comment module is installed and activated.  “Allow comments in this channel” is selected.

The code for my form is:

{exp:comment:form channel="events-blog"}
{!-- form stuff --}
{/exp:comment:form}

This form should appear on single-entry pages accessed through URLs with the url_title at the end.

I copied this code from a site I made recently in 2.1.0 wherein it is working fine.

Thanks!
John

Hi, John. Do you have an example URL? If you put in something like this to the template, what shows up?

This is segment_3 {segment_3}

Hi Sue,

Thanks for getting back to me so fast.

The line you sent does work, as you can see here:

http://ubuntu.pedrera.com/sites/nolanpainting/index.php/community/recent-events/giving-back-to-the-community-nolan-painting-paints-kensington-mural

The comments form (and entries list) should appear beneath the post details there.

Could it be because I have the form placed in a snippet?

Thanks again!
John

Yikes!

Sue, that last post was from me, John.  I was using a different computer when I replied.

John, try removing the snippet and use just the code in the snippet. Does that work? Try adding Debug: {segment_3} inside the snippet an see if it sees that.

Hi Sue,

Thanks for your reply.  Sorry for the delay in mine; I got pulled off this project for a few days.

I tried removing the form code from the snippet (leaving the debug code there), and still no form appears:

http://ubuntu.pedrera.com/sites/nolanpainting/index.php/community/recent-events/nolan-painting-celebrates-1st-fridays-on-the-main-line

As you can see, the debug text does appear.

Thanks,
John

Hey Sue, I think I found the problem!  I needed to pass the url_title parameter to the comment tags.  I thought I had tried that (but maybe not 😖 )

Thanks again for your help!  I think this case is closed.

Hi, John -

You shouldn’t need to pass the URL title over so long as it’s in the URL.  Can you show us your final solution? It may be that we should investigate further.

Or if you’re happy with how it’s working, then it’s up to you if you want to keep troubleshooting. =)

Hi Lisa,

It would be good to do this without passing the URL title.  Here is what is working currently:

{exp:comment:entries channel="events-blog" url_title="{segment_3}"}
{!-- comments list --}
{/exp:comment:entries}

{exp:comment:form channel="events-blog" url_title="{segment_3}"}
{!-- comments form --}
{/exp:comment:form}

Here is the page:

http://ubuntu.pedrera.com/sites/nolanpainting/index.php/community/recent-events/nolan-painting-celebrates-1st-fridays-on-the-main-line

This is the original setup wherein the comment tags are contained in a snippet.  I have tried this without using a snippet, and I get the same problem.

Is it necessary to set the “dynamic” parameter to “off?”  This worked for the comment entries tag but not for the comment form tag.  Could this problem be caused by a conflict with Structure?

Thanks,
John

Hi, John -

Are these Structure entries or Structure types of any sort?  Yes, you can set dynamic=“off” as a parameter of the comment entries tag.

Hi Lisa,

Yup, this page is managed as a Structure listing.  Do you think that’s it?

Thanks!
John

Hi, John. I don’t know enough about Structure to comment on it. But that would be more of a support question for them.

In the meantime, it looks like passing the url_title works for you, I’d continue to use it. Make sense?