PHP help needed for "Recent Comments" Wordpress plugin
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:02 pm
Hello everyone,
I am a new comer here. I am a web designer who does a lot of XHTML and CSS, but very little PHP. As you may have read in the topic of this post, I am having a problem with some PHP code in Wordpress. I want to let you know that I have posted my problem on the Wordpress forum, but noone was able to help. So, I am asking now the real PHP masters.
This is what I wrote:
I am in the process of building a website for a client and will need to display on the frontpage the comments left in a subpage (not part of the blog). I chose to go with the "Recent Comments" plugin (http://blog.jodies.de/2004/11/recent-comments/) because it allows me to display only the comments from a page and not the blog. And here's my problem. I will try to make it as easy as possible:
I add to create an additional field to the comments area to display a title. To do so, I used another plugin called "Extra Comment Field" and created a new variable for the field I needed. I called it "recipe_name". I also included in the comments.php file the following lines:
just above
and:
in the form.
The new variable was created in my database and works as expected returning a value.
Now, in order to have the "Recent Comments" plugin recognize this new field, I read on the plugin website that I need to add a new function to the output_tags.php file following this template:
So here it is. I spend 1 week trying to find an answer to this question. I even emailed the creator of the plugin but never got an answer. How do I get this function to return my "recipe_name" field? I attached the output_tag.php file if it helps.
Please help
Thanks!
I am a new comer here. I am a web designer who does a lot of XHTML and CSS, but very little PHP. As you may have read in the topic of this post, I am having a problem with some PHP code in Wordpress. I want to let you know that I have posted my problem on the Wordpress forum, but noone was able to help. So, I am asking now the real PHP masters.
This is what I wrote:
I am in the process of building a website for a client and will need to display on the frontpage the comments left in a subpage (not part of the blog). I chose to go with the "Recent Comments" plugin (http://blog.jodies.de/2004/11/recent-comments/) because it allows me to display only the comments from a page and not the blog. And here's my problem. I will try to make it as easy as possible:
I add to create an additional field to the comments area to display a title. To do so, I used another plugin called "Extra Comment Field" and created a new variable for the field I needed. I called it "recipe_name". I also included in the comments.php file the following lines:
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<p><?php print $comment->extra_recipe_name; ?></p>Code: Select all
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>Code: Select all
<input type="text" name="recipe_name" id="recipe_name" tabindex="4" size="22" />The new variable was created in my database and works as expected returning a value.
Now, in order to have the "Recent Comments" plugin recognize this new field, I read on the plugin website that I need to add a new function to the output_tags.php file following this template:
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function otf_postid ($option_key, $result, $ext) {
return $result->ID;
}Please help