Extension Key: comments
Copyright 2000-2002, Dmitry Dulepov, <dmitry@typo3.org>
This document is published under the Open Content License
available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
The content of this document is related to TYPO3
- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
This extension provides commenting capabilities to TYPO3 pages or to virtually any TYPO3 record available in frontend in a single view (like single news item, single album image, etc).
This extension may replace ve_guestbook extension in timtab or as commenting system for tt_news. Separate extension is available to import all ve_guestbook comments to comments.
Extension has the following features:
Comment pages
Comment records
Comments are displayed in pages
Highly customizable template, for example:
Number of messages per page
Show/hide fields to comments
Available fields (labels can be customized):
First name
Last name
E-mail
Home page
Location (city, for example)
Comment
Set fields as required or optional
E-mail address syntax validation
Fully localizable (including date format through PHP strtoftime() function)
Automatically clear cache for any page(s) when comment is added
Close comments after predefined period
Close comments for individual records immediately or after period (through supplemental comments_ic extension)
Prevent duplicate comments (for example, several subsequent POST requests)
See IP address of the commenter in BE
Import messages from ve_guestbook (* will be available soon!)
Spam control
Filter out typical guestbook spam
Force all messages to pass approval
Automatically decide if message should be approved before it can appear on the web page
Send e-mail to designated e-mail address about suspicious messages
Hook to connect external spam checkers
Full TYPO3 caching supported (USER object!), which highly improves web site performance
Automatic cleanup: removes comments if "parent" record is removed
External CSS stylesheet can be included through the template (no need to modify web site TS setup for this!)
Automatically use FE user data to fill comment form
Extends tt_news to show number of comments in LIST, SEARCH and LATEST views
Integrates ratings from “ratings” extension
Automatically find links in comment text and convert them to clickable links (can be turned on and off)
Lots of hooks to customize comments
There are screenshots also in other sections of this manual. This screenshot shows default template with default styles with ratings enabled. Default template has many CSS classes, which allows very customizable styling.
Creation of this extension was sponsored by Netcreators BV – an international TYPO3 company from Netherlands. Special thanks go to ben van 't ende for his continuous supports, reviews and advice during development process.
While developing this extension, XMIND 2008 software was used for collecting ideas and making development plan. Thanks to Mango Software for their exceptional mind mapping product.
