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Conditional Comments

1076 days ago

I didn’t just want to have comments [2] or simmilar on my homepage, I wanted somethng a little more human.

So I set myself the task of using Textmate's conditional tags to allow me to do this.

Commenting can be switched on or off for every post so there's three possibilities

  • comments off
  • comments on, no comments yet
  • comments on, comments made

this is the code that allows me to do it...

<p class="controls">
    <txp:permlink>Permalink</txp:permlink> |
    <txp:if_comments_allowed>
        <txp:if_comments>
        <txp:permlink> <txp:comments_count /> comments</txp:permlink>
            <txp:else />
            <txp:permlink>No comments yet</txp:permlink>
        </txp:if_comments>
            <txp:else />
            Comments off
    </txp:if_comments_allowed>
</p>

The key tags here are <txp:if_comments_allowed> and <txp:if_comments>

What that markup is saying is...

"here's a paragraph with a class of "controls" (The class doesn't do anything yet. I'll use that to style it with CSS later). First thing inside this paragraph is a permalink to the article followed by a bunch of conditional statements. If comments are allowed and there's comments display a link to the comments form saying the number of comments followed by "comments", else display a link saying "No comments yet", and if comments aren't allowed simply say "Comments Off".

Simple.

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