Display all comments (imported from Virtuemart reviews) in 1 article

[jaybuzzard]

Hi,

I have installed the latest Jcomment and intergrated it with VM.

I would like to know how do I show all the product reviews/comments in 1 article?

I need to do this, as I will create a new menu tab called "Product Reviews".

I have the jcomments module but that will only show comments on articles and since VM is not an article I cannot figure out how to do it!

I have all the comments published in the backend of jcomment & I can see them, just cant figure out how to display them on my site either in and article, seperate page or as a module.

I must say Jcomment Rocks !!!!!!

I also cannot figure out how to embed or use the star rating that you have with virtuemart.

Is there a hack or code to add to enable this as when jcomments is used with VM for products it is really good to have a comment and a rating for a each product

regards
Paul

[smart]

You could setup JComments Latest module and set Source parameter to com_virtuemart. In this case it will display comments for VM only.

Regarding rating feature - at this moment it isn't planned because in my mind JComments isn't rating extension but commening. Adding some rate feature to JComments will make it more complex and hard to support because if extension will allow to rate something it will need to have such feature as displaying list of rated objects and etc.

But I'm going to enable some integration feature that will allow 3rd party extensions to inserts additional elemtents to JComments comments form. So it will allow to inject rating elemtents to form and process their selection after comment had posted.

[jaybuzzard]

Hi,

I have added com_virtuemart to the Jcomments module and it now displays either latest comments etc....

But I need to show all the comments from the shop, also I need to edit tha layout. It would be brilliant if I could have the comments display the same as it does with a border uner each product.

I must say Jcomment Rocks !!!!!!


regards
Paul

[smart]

I have added com_virtuemart to the Jcomments module and it now displays either latest comments etc....

you could setup module parameter Count to some large value (for example 100000) and it will display all comments but this would not very usable because they will display as very long list.

But I need to show all the comments from the shop, also I need to edit tha layout. It would be brilliant if I could have the comments display the same as it does with a border uner each product.

I'll think about possible solution for this and if I find something - I'll implement this in next JComments version.

I must say Jcomment Rocks !!!!!!

Thank you, Paul!

[jaybuzzard]

you could setup module parameter Count to some large value (for example 100000) and it will display all comments but this would not very usable because they will display as very long list.

How would I do this? though the module or PHP. Through the module there is not an option in the drop down box to display all comments?

I'll think about possible solution for this and if I find something - I'll implement this in next JComments version.

Could you tell me what file is the style sheet for displaying comments in the module, as I am sure I could edit the css to show a border around each comment

Cheers
Paul

[smart]

How would I do this? though the module or PHP. Through the module there is not an option in the drop down box to display all comments?

Through module paramters. No, it has not any drop down boxes to manage items count for display

Could you tell me what file is the style sheet for displaying comments in the module, as I am sure I could edit the css to show a border around each comment

You could define all you need CSS styles in your Joomla template's CSS file. Also I could suggest you to use FireBug plugin for Firefox to discover that styles and classes are used. If you want to add a border around comment you could define something like:

Code: (css)

ul.jclist li {border: 1px solid #777 !important; }

[jaybuzzard]

Through module paramters. No, it has not any drop down boxes to manage items count for display

Could you please explain: I have set to show latest comments and amount of posts to 1000 (Please see the image)

You could define all you need CSS styles in your Joomla template's CSS file. Also I could suggest you to use FireBug plugin for Firefox to discover that styles and classes are used. If you want to add a border around comment you could define something like:

Code: (css)

ul.jclist li {border: 1px solid #777 !important; }

Could you tell me where I would place that in my template css file as I have used firebug but am struggling to find it.

Would you mind taking a look at letting me knpw.

it is at www.sk1n.co.uk in the top ment there is a tab called product reviews


Many thanks for all you help

Regards
Jay

[smart]

Could you please explain: I have set to show latest comments and amount of posts to 1000 (Please see the image)

Check the paramerers names - there is parameter named 'Count' it setted to 100 on your screenshot.[/quote]

Could you tell me where I would place that in my template css file as I have used firebug but am struggling to find it.

You could place it anywhere in you template.css file. I suggest to insert in to the end of file (this will prevent style overriding).