Alter first comment?

Tex · January 2007

Is there a method to change the look of the first comment in a discussion? I mean the post of the one who started the discussion.

WallPhone · January 2007

If you check the RowNumber delegate parameter, it will tell you if you are looking at the first comment or not:


$Context->SetDefinition('AfterFirstPostCode', '<hr style="border: 0 1 #ccc" />Insert code here');
$Context->SetDefinition('AfterLastPostCode', '<hr style="border: 0 1 #ccc" />Insert code here');

function TweenPost(&$CommentGrid) {
  // Insert the ad code after the last </li>
  $CommentList = &$CommentGrid->DelegateParameters['CommentList'];
  $RowNumber = &$CommentGrid->DelegateParameters['RowNumber'];
  $Comment = &$CommentGrid->DelegateParameters['Comment'];

  if ( 1 == $RowNumber ) {
    $Comment->Body .= $CommentGrid->Context->GetDefinition('AfterFirstPostCode');
  } else {
    if ( ($CommentGrid->CommentDataCount == $RowNumber) || ($CommentGrid->Context->Configuration['COMMENTS_PER_PAGE'] == $RowNumber) ) {
      $Comment->Body .= $CommentGrid->Context->GetDefinition('AfterLastPostCode');
    }
  }
}

$Context->AddToDelegate('CommentGrid', 'PreCommentOptionsRender', 'TweenPost');

Tex · January 2007

Thanks for this code! Where to put it into? I tried some ways but always get an error.

mis-one · January 2007

Tex, Just make a new extension.. or Wallphone can create his own considering how helpful it is.

Tex · January 2007

Ah, as an extension. I'll try this. Thanks!

Krak · January 2007

Wasn't there a CSS tag like Comment_First or something? Was it done away with?

Tex · January 2007

@ Krak:
I couldn't find any. Neither in the css file nor at the source code of the page.

Tex · January 2007

All right. This enables me to add anything I want after the text of the first comment. Has anybody an idea how to alter the look of it? I could imagine opening a div before it and close it after the comment. But how to add something before the first comment? Sorry, I am not good in this as you see.

Krak · January 2007

I could have swore there was something like Comment_First, but I looked and couldn't find it either. It must have been removed or I am blind/looking in the wrong spot.

I swear I have used it before.

WallPhone · January 2007

One thing you could do:


$Comment->Body = '<div class="FirstComment">'. $Comment->Body .'</div>';

But that would only single out the body of the first comment... Maybe look at the beautiful lie theme if you are trying to get a blog-like appearance.

There was a FirstComment class in .9.2.6 Not sure why it didin't make it into later versions. (Maybe because you can get the same effect with a :first-child CSS selector?)

#Comments li:First-Child {
border: 2px solid #f00;
}

But this seems to do things to the comment author and icon fields... and I am not familiar with how well browsers use it.

Tex · January 2007

@ WallPhone:
The first method is very well for the beginning, thanks!
The 'First-Child' is not supported by IE.
The Beautiful Lie theme doesn't alter the look of the first comment, as far as I can see.

Stash · January 2007

What about the Adjacent-Sibling Selectr? That should work with IE?

Scott Double U · February 2007

did any body ever make any progress on this?

Tex · February 2007

The method proposed by WallPhone works fine:
$Comment->Body = '<div class="FirstComment">'. $Comment->Body .'</div>';
Than you can define the class in you CSS stylesheet.