Pass entry_id dynamically — possible? | ExpressionEngine 2 Tech Support

#1 / Jun 09, 2011 2:50pm

gazaston
128 posts

I need to pass entry_id dynamically so I can embed the same comment form across several pages.

How would I go about doing that? Would it be by wrapping a channel:entries tag around my embed?

{embed="channels/messages-display" entry_id="{entry_id}”}
#2 / Jun 10, 2011 4:02am

John Henry Donovan
12339 posts

madebysplendid,

can you explain this in more context please?
Typically a comment form lives outside of the Channel Entries tag on a single entry page

If we knew the reasoning for you wanting to do this we may have more suggestions.

To answer your question, yes you can wrap the Channel Entries tag around the embed or in fact add it to your embed’s entry_id= parameter also.

#3 / Jun 10, 2011 4:48am

gazaston

128 posts

Hi John,

Sure — just trying to keep things as simple as possible 😊

I have a site with profile pages for contributors. Each profile page has a “leave a message” form, which is basically comments on a channel named “bloggers”.

My client has asked me to AJAXify the comment form, so I went off and found a plugin (AJAX Babble), but it’s documentation only accounts for a single hard-coded entry_ID (which works fine for that entry — see existing code below).

So — what I need is to be able to populate that entry_ID dynamically, according to the profile page being displayed.

Does that make sense?

Here’s the main template:

<div id="comments_container">
{embed='channels/messages-display' entry_id='2'} 
</div>
        
{exp:ajax_babble:script 
form_id='comment_form' 
entry_id='2'
comments_template_url='{homepage}/channels/messages-display/' 
comments_container_id='comments_container' 
submit_button_id='comments_submit_button' 
}

<a class="leave-message">Leave a message</a>

<div id="comment-form-div">

{exp:comment:form}        
    {if logged_out}
        <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" size="50" /><br > 
        <label for="email">Email:</label> <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" size="50" /><br > 
        <label for="location">Location:</label> <input type="text" name="location" value="{location}" size="50" /><br > 
        <label for="url">URL:</label> <input type="text" name="url" value="{url}" size="50" /><br > 
    {/if}
    <label for="comment">Comment:</label>
 
    <textarea name="comment" cols="70" rows="10">{comment}</textarea></p>
    
    {if captcha}
        <label for="captcha">Please enter the word you see in the image below:</label>
 
        {captcha}

        <input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" maxlength="20" /></p>
    {/if}
    
    <input id="comments_submit_button" type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Comment" /></p>    
{/exp:comment:form}



</div></div>

And here’s the embedded template to show the comments:

{exp:ajax_babble:comments entry_id="{embed:entry_id}" parse="inward"}

{exp:comment:entries channel='bloggers' orderby='date' sort='desc' limit='5'}

<div class="comment">{comment}
        <cite>By {name} on {comment_date format="%d-%m-%Y"}</cite></div>

{/exp:comment:entries}

{/exp:ajax_babble:comments}

#4 / Jun 10, 2011 5:15am

John Henry Donovan
12339 posts

madebysplendid,

Thanks for explaining it. Does either method work for you from your original question?

#5 / Jun 10, 2011 5:28am

gazaston

128 posts

Well, I tried the code below and it seems to disable the submit button:

<div id="comments_container">
{exp:channel:entries channel='bloggers'}
{embed='channels/messages-display' entry_id='{entry_id}'} 
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>
    
{exp:channel:entries channel='bloggers'}    
{exp:ajax_babble:script 
form_id='comment_form' 
entry_id='{entry_id}'
comments_template_url='{homepage}/channels/messages-display/' 
comments_container_id='comments_container' 
submit_button_id='comments_submit_button' 
}
{/exp:channel:entries}

#6 / Jun 11, 2011 3:10pm

Greg Salt
3988 posts

Hi madebyspendid,

I’m afraid I’ve no experience of this addon but if you use the Safari/Chrome Inspector or Firebug are you seeing any Javascript errors? You may want to post in our Community Help forum to see if anyone else has successfully integrated this addon in a similar way.

Cheers

Greg
#7 / Jun 13, 2011 9:04am

gazaston
128 posts

Hi Greg,

Isn’t this (entry_ID) EE support rather than plugin support that I’m looking for help with?
#8 / Jun 14, 2011 3:15pm

Brandon Jones
5500 posts

Hi madebyspendid,

Can you clarify what you mean by the submit button being disabled? That sounds like an issue with the add-on or AJAX functionality.

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