Re: [Openinteract-dev] linking comments to news articles

[Andrew H. <hu...@ll...>]

Works like a charm.  Thanks.
-Andrew

At 12:56 PM 7/22/2003 -0400, Chris Winters wrote:
>Andrew Hurst wrote:
>>   I'm trying to get the comments package to work with the news package, 
>> so that I can have comments on the news stories on my OI site.  At the 
>> bottom of the news::news_detail template I've added the following:
>>[% OI.comp( 'show_comment_summary', object = news ) %]
>>[% PROCESS comments::comment_form_page( object = news ) %]
>>   That shows the comment form correctly, but it doesn't allow me to post 
>> comments.  The error I get is "Insufficient data supplied to fetch 
>> comments by object."  It doesn't appear to be getting the object 
>> information that it needs.  When I look at the post comments form in 
>> html, the hidden values at the bottom are:
>>...
>
>FWIW, on my site I have:
>
>[% OI.comp( 'show_comment_by_object', object => news ) %]
>
>at the bottom of the 'news::news_detail' template.
>
>I think there are some dependencies here that I never explicitly drew out. 
>What the 'show_comment_by_object' component will do is fetch the comments 
>for a particular object then pass them to 'comment::comment_list'.
>
>Additionally the 'comment::comment_form' wants a 'commment' object that's 
>already been filled in with the class and object ID. (These are the empty 
>hidden entries you're seeing.) What you probably want is:
>
>[% OI.comp( 'new_comment_form', object => news ) %]
>
>This pulls the class/id out of the object and puts it into a new comment 
>object. It also grabs data saved in the cookie (name/email/url) and puts 
>it in the new comment object. It then passes the comment object to 
>'comment::comment_form' which is happy.
>
>I hope that makes sense. I worked on this package some time ago and it's a 
>little fuzzy :-)  I'm going to work on it in the next week or two to port 
>it to OI2 so it will be fresher.
>
>>Related to this, I've noticed (or I think I have ;) that lots of the 
>>templates are cached, so that when I make a change to the templates, 
>>sometimes I won't see it for a few requests.  I guess that's because the 
>>template it cached within each child request?  Is there any way around 
>>this?  I've thought about changing template_info->{cache_size} to 0, but 
>>was worried that that would make performance too slow to stand while 
>>messing around.  Any thoughts?  How do other people handle this?
>
>Yes, they're cached. You can get around this by restarting the server, 
>which sucks. Or by just not caching the templates. The performance 
>difference shouldn't be *that* great (TT is still pretty quick), and since 
>you're in development you don't care as much about that anyway. Well, at 
>least I don't.
>
>Chris
>
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