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Name: Recent Comments

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lifetype/files/

License: GPL

Author: Mark Wu

Description

This plugin offers the most recently article comments.

Configuration

The plugin configuration page can be found under Control Center->Recent Activities Management.

You can use:

1. $recentcomments->isEnabled() to check the plugin is enabled or not.
2. $recentcomments->getRecentComments( $maxComments , $based ) to get the recent comments.

Where:

1. $maxComments is the the max comments you want to show. Default is 10.
2. $based is return the site-wide or blog-wide comments. "BLOG" means blog-wide, and "SITE" means site-wide. Default is "BLOG".

Add the following code to footer.template or header.template:

{if $recentcomments->isEnabled()}
<h2>Recent Comments</h2>
{assign var=comments value=$recentcomments->getRecentComments()}
<ul>
{foreach from=$comments item=comment}
{assign var=commentpostid value=$comment->getArticleId()}
{assign var=commentpost value=$recentcomments->getArticle($commentpostid)}
<li><a title="View comments by {$comment->getUsername()}" href="{$url->postPermalink($commentpost)}#{$comment->getId()}"><b>{$comment->getUsername()}：</b>{$comment->getText()|truncate:100:"..."|strip_tags}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>            
{/if}

Notes