Latest_Comments 1.1 for 2.5.x

[master7]

Yeah, we've noticed it and discussed it here: [ http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/viewto ... mments+rss ],
The whitespace was causing it, strange thing

Sorry, I didn't found this post

On other sietes I read, that the "whitespace" causes XML error every time when you include php file into site.

[ivanh]

i have two problems

if i use

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<?php include($cutepath . '/data/latest_comments.txt'); ?>

in say index.php

would this show all the latest comments?

i was wondering how i can display the lastest comments of a particular category aswell as all

maybe a function like $latest_comments[id] or something like that im not entirely sure


another thing
about a yr ago there was a post about how you can sort your news according to latest comments
i was wondering what the code was again
something like
$sort =array('latest_comm', 'ASC');

[FI-DD]

http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/sort-b ... t1494.html

[ivanh]

thanks for the link fi-dd!

could you help me with the first question aswell?
sorry if you explained it above - i didnt understand it ;(

[flyboy17]

great plug-in, but one request

I would like to show only unique newsitems (for example; when there are 7 replies on just 1 newsitem; the output will be those 7, same, newsitems)
So, is it possible? I tried to change the sql query but i thing i did something wrong (no 'recently commented news' at all)
(I changed sql query with --> distinct(post_id)

Thanks for you help!

[FI-DD]

In latest_comments.php change this:

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$comments = $sql-> select(array('table' => 'comments',
                  'orderby' => array('date', 'DESC'),
                  'limit' => array(0, $number)));

   foreach ($comments as $comment){
            $comm_id = $comment['id'];
            $xid = $comment['post_id'];
            $author = $comment['author'];
$output = $template_active;
$output = str_replace('{id}', $xid, $output);
$output = str_replace('{author}', $author, $output);
$output = str_replace('{title}', get_title($xid,$max_length), $output);
$output = str_replace('{comment-id}', $comm_id, $output);
$strOUT .= $output . "\n";
}

to this:

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   $comments = $sql->select(array('table' => 'comments',
                  'orderby' => array('date', 'DESC')));
$i = 0;
foreach ($comments as $comment){
   if(!isset($found[$comment['post_id']]) and $i < $number){
      $comm_id = $comment['id'];
      $xid = $comment['post_id'];
      $author = $comment['author'];
      $output = $template_active;
      $output = str_replace('{id}', $xid, $output);
      $output = str_replace('{author}', $author, $output);
      $output = str_replace('{title}', get_title($xid,$max_length), $output);
      $output = str_replace('{comment-id}', $comm_id, $output);
      $strOUT .= $output . "\n";
      
      $found[$comment['post_id']] = true;
      $i++;
   }
   else{
      continue;
   }
}

(Not tested.)

[flyboy17]

Hello FI-DD

Thanks, i just tested your code and it seems to work correct thanks
Except; when i delete a comment this plug-in still shows that reaction.
* I also used your 'fast' edition of this plug-in (code is slightly different i suppose)

Original:

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  $comments = $sql-> select(array('table' => 'comments',
                  'orderby' => array('date', 'DESC'),
                  'limit' => array(0, $number)));

   foreach ($comments as $comment){
            $comm_id = $comment['id'];
            $xid = $comment['post_id'];
            $get_news = reset($sql->select(array('table' => 'news', 'where' => array("id = ".$comment['post_id']))));
            $author = $comment['author'];
$output = $template_active;
$output = str_replace('{link}', cute_get_link($get_news), $output);
$output = str_replace('{author}', $author, $output);
$output = str_replace('{title}', get_title($xid,$max_length), $output);
$output = str_replace('{comment-id}', $comm_id, $output);
$output = str_replace('{date}', date("H:i", $comment['date']), $output);
$strOUT .= $output . "\n";
}

Install Instructions:

You might also want to edit editcomments.mdu so if you remove a comment the comment display will be
updated at same time. Look for the line that starts "msg('info', $echo['headerDeleted']," and
add latest_comments(10, 40); above it.

--> doesn't work anymore

[FI-DD]

Don't know. But I doubt that the changes I made are the reason for it not working anymore.

If you add that line in editcomments.mdu then the script checks the comments and puts them into the txt file. Since the comment is deleted it shouldn't be in the txt file anymore. Maybe it is a caching problem?

[flyboy17]

I completly reinstall this plug-in with your change, but there are still double posts in the latest comments.
And also for some reason there is also a delay of 1 messages. (somewhere a wrong for-loop?)
Thanks for your help, i appreciate.

[FI-DD]

I made a small change in the code above. But I doubt that fixed it.

[flyboy17]

Hello

This one works fine thanks!
But still have a delay of 1 comment?
Any idea?
Thanks again

[flyboy17]

Sorry to disturb you again
But now there URL is wrong.
I replaced the original in latest_comments.php

$output = str_replace('{link}', cute_get_link($get_news), $output);

but without any success (he just ignored the {link})

Template:

<a href="{link}#{comment-id}">{title}</a>

gives me:

http://www.flightlevel.be/#219

Normal link would be:

http://www.flightlevel.be/080619_rise-of-the-fuel-price-fall-of-the-airlines.html#219

[FI-DD]

Did you clear the cache?

[flyboy17]

Yes i did
Also deleted the .txt file; so a new one should be created

[flyboy17]

Any idees? thanks