Lock whole category

[Chris67]

Hi,

I would like to lock commenting for a whole category. The reason is that I manged my achived articles in a category called e.g. "Old Articles". They can be read by public inside a category blog (by default joomla archived articles cannot be read by the public so I have to do it that way)

Normaly I must enter each article and append "{jcomments lock}", so the public can read the comments but cannot ad any new (adding comments doesn't make sense for "old" articles). This is too musch work.

My workaround:

Open plugins/conten/jcomments/jcomments.php and replace

if
   ($article->state == $archivesState && $this->params->get('enable_for_archived', 0) == 0)
     {
         $commentsLocked = true;

with

if (
   ($article->state == $archivesState && $this->params->get('enable_for_archived', 0) == 0)
   
   || ($article->catid = 20)   // "Old Articels" ID  is 20
   
   )
 {
         $commentsLocked = true;

My Suggestion is to add a feature in the Admin Tool of jcomments for "Showing comments but not adding any" for given categorys

Thanks,
Chris

[ABTOP]

Why not simply exclude this category - "Old Articles" -  from the selection of commentable categories?

[Chris67]

Because then you see no posted comments at all. I need an option "Just read, but not write" aka "locked" for the category.