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Hey there!

I’ve been working on getting the blog set up on a site. And I can’t seem to get the comments form to work correctly.

http://childmark.com/blog/5_ways_to_stimulate_your_babys_eyesight/

It appears on the single entry page, but when you enter your comment, it doesn’t post to the entry.

Comments are allowed within this weblog, so I’m a little confused as to what might be the problem.

Thanks for all your help ahead of time!

Mod Edit: Moved to the Technical Support forum.
Mod Edit: Moved to the Howto forum as per request.

Can we see the code you’re using? There are two separate sets of tags you’ll need to use, one for posting and one for viewing.

For posting the comments:

{exp:comment:form}
<!--Your parameters here, such as {name}, {email} etc… -->
{/exp:comment:form}

and then the comments entries:

{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="20"}
{comment} 
by {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"} <!-- or whatever you want to show… -->
{/exp:comment:entries}

How you lookin? Take a look here if you need to: Entries or Posting

drawbackwards, did the information from Jack help?

Thanks for the assist, Jack. 😊

This is the code blocks I’m using. These are located outside of the entries tag.

{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" weblog="blog"}

{comment}

By {name}      {relative_date} ago

{/exp:comment:entries}
{exp:comment:form weblog="blog"}

{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}
Enter Your Comment:
<textarea name="comment" cols="79" rows="8">{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" />

{/exp:comment:form}

try removing the weblog=“blog” line from {exp:comment:entries sort="asc" weblog="blog"}. Comments are meant to be dynamic/relative to your URL in some cases. That might do it for ya.

Removed the weblog mention out of both calls and still no go.

Perhaps I need something in the url to tell it it’s a single post?? I figured if it was showing up it would work as well?

Perhaps I need something in the url to tell it it’s a single post?? I figured if it was showing up it would work as well?

Yes, you do need something in the url.

SheBlogs.com - Click on one of the comments link, and you’ll be taken to the comment page for that entry. You’ll notice the third segment has the URL title in it.

I’m pretty much using the standard comments code that came with the stock templates.

<a href="http://www.sheblogs.com/index.php/site/comments/no-reverse/">http://www.sheblogs.com/index.php/site/comments/no-reverse/</a>

Ok so I can’t just have the comments listed at the bottom of a single post? That’s kinda lame…

Are you sure that’s the only way it can be done? I thought I’d seen it done in a more “wordpress” style with the comments right under the post on a single post item… I’ll have to keep looking.

You could use an embed and pass the {url_title} to that embed. That would get around the issue.

I don’t have an example in my sites, but I could move this to the HowTo forum to some community involvement.

Sue,

If you could move this tread back over to How To so that we might get an example of how to do this that would be very helpful.

Thanks!

There we go.

Here’s what I did for one of my sites—greatly simplified, of course. This is for a page where the url_title appears in the URL.

The entry shows here:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="stories" limit="1" disable="trackbacks"}
  <h1>{title}</h1>
  <div class="byline">
    <h2><span class="date">{entry_date format="%F %j, %Y"}</span> | by <a href="/user/{username}/">{author}</a></h2>
<p>  </div><br />
  <div class="story-body"><br />
    {stories_body}<br />
  </div><br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Below this, I have my comments, both the existing comments and the comments form. Since I only allow members to post a comment, I didn’t need to add the fields for name and email address.

{!-- COMMENTS LIST --}
<h3 id="comment">Comments</h3>
<ol>
  {exp:comment:entries weblog="stories" url_title="{segment_3}"}
    <li id="{comment_id}">
      {comment}
    </li>
  {/exp:comment:entries}
</ol>

{!-- COMMENT FORM --}
{exp:comment:form}
  <h3 id="post-comment">Post a Comment</h3>
  <fieldset>
    <label for="post-comment-text">Your Comment</label>
    <textarea id="post-comment-text" name="comment" cols="20" rows="5">{comment}</textarea>

    <input type="checkbox" id="notify-comment" name="notify_me" value="yes" {notify_me} />
    <label class="check" for="notify-comment">Notify me of follow-up comments?</label>

    <input type="image" name="submit" src="/css/i/btn-postcomment.gif" alt="Post Comment" />
  </fieldset>
{/exp:comment:form}

Hope this helps!

Thank you but I think my issue is that the form doesn’t post the comment to the database? Any ideas why that could be happening?

Are you sure? Can you check the exp_comments table to confirm that? If so, might be a read/write issue or a permissions problem.

Yep, no entries in the database within the comments table.