Latest Comment Module > Bold usernames

[xanderbok]

Hi,

1st of all I Would like to thank you for a great component / module. I switched from jomcomment to JComment and things are looking way better and importing comments worked flawless!

One question though which I can't figure out after several hours playing with it;
How can I get to display the names/usernames bold in the Latest comment module?

There is no separate css for this module so it has to be done somewhere in these lines of code in mod_jcomments.php;

Code:

switch( $show_author ) {
case 0:
break;
case 1:
echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . $row->name;
break;
case 2:
echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . ($row->username ? $row->username : $row->name);
break;
}

echo '</li>'."\n";
}
echo '</ul>'."\n";

Thanks!
Xander Bok

Edit
Typo
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[smart]

Yes, in current module version this task could be done only by edit module's code... I'll fix this in next module version...

[xanderbok]

Smart,

thanks. could you please explain to me what in the code I have to edit / add to make this work?

[smart]

Of course...

Just change:

Code: (php)

echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . $row->name;

with

Code: (php)

echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . '<b>'.$row->name.'</b>';

and

Code: (php)

echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . ($row->username ? $row->username : $row->name);

with

Code: (php)

echo '<br />' . ($label4author != '' ?  $label4author . ' ' : '') . '<b>'.($row->username ? $row->username : $row->name).'</b>';

Or if won't use <b>, you could replace <b> with <span class="author"> and </b> with </span>. And then you could define author's names style via CSS...

[xanderbok]

Thanks, that worked! Exactly what I want!

One more (and my last :-)) question, how can I put in a blank line between comments?

As you can see on our community site http://www.hbb-scheveningen.nl in the left column, there is no space between the latest comments and I would like to have a blank line between them, if possible.


Thanks again smart.

[smart]

Add in your Joomla's template CSS (or JComments template CSS) next style:

Code: (css)

ul.jclist li {padding-bottom: 10px;}

[xanderbok]

smart, you are the man

tnx

[jrussell]

This is great - really helped me out. One thing I can't work out is how do I make the comments in the module appear left aligned? Right now it's centered.