How to highlight an administrator's comment?

[KiusteR]

I really need help to... (how do you say) HIGHLIGHT de admin comments. I mean... when visitors see the comments, can distinguish comments from others visitors to the comments of the manager.

Good com  

Regards!

[smart]

At current version it could be implemented via small hack.

Open /components/com_jcomments/jcomments.php and replace code (twice):

Code: (php)

."\n, v.value as voted"
."\nFROM #__jcomments AS c"
."\nLEFT JOIN #__jcomments_votes AS v ON c.id = v.commentid " . ( $my->id ? " AND  v.userid = ".$my->id : " AND  v.ip = '".$acl->getUserIP() . "'" )

with

Code: (php)

."\n, v.value as voted"
."\n, case when c.userid = 0 then 'guest' else replace(lower(u.usertype), ' ', '-') end as usertype"
."\nFROM #__jcomments AS c"
."\nLEFT JOIN #__jcomments_votes AS v ON c.id = v.commentid " . ( $my->id ? " AND  v.userid = ".$my->id : " AND  v.ip = '".$acl->getUserIP() . "'" )
."\nLEFT JOIN #__users AS u ON c.userid = u.id"

And after that you need edit template: /components/com_jcomments/tpl/default/tpl_comment.php:

Add after line:

Code: (php)

$commentBoxIndentStyle = ($this->getVar('avatar') == 1) ? ' avatar-indent' : '';

next code:

Code: (php)

if (isset($comment->usertype)) {
$commentBoxIndentStyle .= ' usertype-' . $comment->usertype;
}

After that all your comments will have additional style like: usertype-guest, usertype-registered, ..., usertype-administrator, usertype-super-administrator

[KiusteR]

Hi the first code appears 3 times on jcomments.php... I replace it in the 3??

[KiusteR]

nononono.....it seems to me! it's ok 

Now i prove it

[KiusteR]

NOP....this don't work to me! 

[smart]

It is very strange because same modification installed on demo.joomlatune.com and I can see that it working:

Code:

<div class="comment-box avatar-indent usertype-super-administrator">

If you want I can send you upcoming version where is this modification already applied.

[Goldsnich]

Searched for same functionality in Jcomments for J2.5, but above mentioned lines are not in jcomments,php anymore. Guess should be other way to do it.
 Only what I need is highlight specified user posts (admin), so users will be able to distinguish administrator comments.
I found short solution here http://joomquery.com/vi/wordpress/wordpress-tutorials/1938-highlight-author-comments.html  but not sure if  it's great way.

BTW Спасибо за импорт udja!  Я терпеливо ждала когда выйдет Jcomments http://joomlaforum.ru/index.php/topic,178026.msg1075348.html#msg1075348

[commentator]

I need this functionality too. Has somebody a solution for this?
We're using the Joomla 2.5 Version of JComments

[smart]

In Joomla 2.5 any user could have more than one usergroup and there is no way to get usergroups names without descreasing performance. I'm still searching more correct way to return this feature in next versions.

[commentator]

OK, we're just using the standard-usergroups. But it sounds great that this feature is on the to-do list. thx!