JComments & YOOtheme Zoo

[smart]

Simple instruction of JComments integration into YOOtheme Zoo

1. Download attached files

2. Extract com_zoo.plugin.zip  and put com_zoo.plugin.php to folder: /components/com_jcomments/plugins/

3. Extract all files from elements.zip  to folder /administrator/components/com_zoo/elements/

4. Open your Zoo template (/components/com_zoo/templates/your_template_name/item.php) and insert in block <div class="item"> following code (if ommited):

         <?php if (isset($elements['comments'])) : ?>
         <div id="comments" class="comments"><?php echo $elements['comments']->render(ZOO_VIEW_ITEM); ?></div>
         <?php endif; ?>

For example in /components/com_zoo/templates/article/item.php this looks like:

      <div class="item">
         . . . . .
         <?php if (isset($elements['comments'])) : ?>
         <div id="comments" class="comments"><?php echo $elements['comments']->render(ZOO_VIEW_ITEM); ?></div>
         <?php endif; ?>
      </div>

5. Go to administration panel -> Zoo -> Types, select your type and press Edit. Then add JComments element and configure fields:

   - Name   -  comments
   - Label          -  JComments
   - Description    - 
   - Display        -  On item view
And save changes

[madwill]

Hi

i have completed the simple instructions in my website joomla/zoo integration and in the zoo demo content joomla install,
they both show the possibility to add jcomments in the type editing in backend but both won't show the comment module in the product or category display page in the front-end

Do i need something extra to make the comments show up

i simply want guest costumer to be able to leave comments on purchased products if at all possible, without signin in and some protection agains spambots for sure...

maybe i can add that jcomments works perfectly in a standart content category of joomla, simply wont show up in zoo content

Thx a lot for this component

William

[thomas]

  Thanks Thanks Thanks smart! What a great job! exactley what I'm looking for! Everything work fine!

[yoyo]

Simple instruction of JComments integration into YOOtheme Zoo



4. Open your Zoo template (/components/com_zoo/templates/your_template_name/item.php) and insert in block <div class="item"> following code (if ommited):

         <?php if (isset($elements['comments'])) : ?>
         <div id="comments" class="comments"><?php echo $elements['comments']->render(ZOO_VIEW_ITEM); ?></div>
         <?php endif; ?>

Hi,
there is no (more ?) "div class="item" in the file item.php !  
I don't know how to install Jcomments on the zoo extension ? May be because i have only the lite edition ??

Can u help me, please ?
 

[smart]

there is no (more ?) "div class="item" in the file item.php ! 

try to add suggested block of code to the end of that file.

[yoyo]

Sorry but it's not working.
In this previous post :

I followed the above instructions without understanding that - after having transferred the directory /jcomments inside  /components/com_zoo/elements, from the admin side I had to modify the Zoo type, adding to it not a normal text field named "comments", but  the newly created element: # Web Service  * JComments

The Jcomments element seems to appear in the #Web Service# but in the Lite edition there is no Web service at all : may be it's the problem ?