comments link before article

[franksproductions]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know how to place a text link automatically at the top of an article, linking one directly to the comments and comment box below the article? A link saying for instance: react! And when you click it, you go down directly to the bottom of the article. This may be handy for long articles, so that people realize that they have the possibility to place a comment at the end.

I tried to do this through the plugin Content - JComments, parameter "comments link" and "links position: before article", but that doesn't seem to work because nothing comes up at the beginning of the article.

Thanks a lot for any help.

Frank.

[smart]

I tried to do this through the plugin Content - JComments, parameter "comments link" and "links position: before article", but that doesn't seem to work because nothing comes up at the beginning of the article.

This parameter affects comments links in blog view...

You can try to modify JComments - Content plugin and add such link. For this try to do next steps:

1. Open file /plugins/content/jcomments.php
2. Find line:

Code: (php)

function onAfterDisplayContent(&$article, &$params, $limitstart = 0)

and add before it next code:

Code: (php)

function onBeforeDisplayContent(&$article, &$params, $limitstart = 0)
{
require_once (JCOMMENTS_HELPERS.DS.'content.php');
$application = &JFactory::getApplication('site');
$view = JRequest::getCmd('view');
// check whether plugin has been unpublished
if (!JPluginHelper::isEnabled('content', 'jcomments')
|| ($view != 'article')
|| $params->get('intro_only')
|| $params->get('popup')
|| JRequest::getBool('fullview')
|| JRequest::getVar('print')) {
JCommentsContentPluginHelper::clear($article, true);
return '';
}

require_once (JCOMMENTS_BASE.DS.'jcomments.php');

$config = & JCommentsFactory::getConfig();
$isEnabled = ($config->getInt('comments_on', 0) == 1) && ($config->getInt('comments_off', 0) == 0);

if ($isEnabled && $view == 'article') {
return '<a href="#comments">'.JText::_('Comments').'</a>';
}
}

This modification will add link 'Comments' before article's text... I didn't tested this modification but it must work...

[franksproductions]

Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try.