enhancement to the mainpage - comments section

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Mertsch
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Post: #1

enhancement to the mainpage - comments section

OK what happens when you click on "read more..." - you get the full text ... but what happens when you click "comments?" or "3 comments" - THE SAME
so why do we have 2 buttons here ?
I find it very annoying because ... when I am surfing through the new - I first open all interesting things in Tabs, then going through all of them reading ...
just as anyone does with everything in normal life .. you never go for every single peace .. you take as much as you can or you want to be the most efficent way ...

now when I open news its fine ... but from time to time I am interested in the comments of articles ... so I open read more but it does not jump to the read more section, so in most cases I just close the tab without reading the comments because I do not remember that I opened this tab for reading comments not reading news ...
but also for normal browsing its quite annoying to scroll down any time ... even more because there is a button for this ...

now this is really easy to implement ...

1. check the source of the news viewer ... so modules.php

Code:

<!-- COMMENTS NAVIGATION BAR START -->

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#B7B8DD"><tr><td>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="6" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><tr><td>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr><td bgcolor="#B7B8DD" align="center"><font class="content" color="#000000">"User's Login" | <a href="modules.php?name=Your_Account&amp;op=editcomm"><font color="#000000">Configure</font></a> | <B>0</B> comments</font></td></tr>

<tr><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center" width="100%">

<table border="0"><tr><td><font class="content">

<form method="post" action="modules.php?name=News&file=article">

<font color="#000000">Threshold</font> <select name="thold">

<option value="-1" selected>-1</option>

<option value="0">0</option>

<option value="1">1</option>

<option value="2">2</option>

<option value="3">3</option>

<option value="4">4</option>

<option value="5">5</option>

</select> <select name=mode><option value="nocomments">No Comments</option>

<option value="nested" selected>Nested</option>

<option value="flat">Flat</option>

<option value="thread">Thread</option>

</select> <select name="order"><option value="0" selected>Oldest First</option>

<option value="1">Newest First</option>

<option value="2">Highest Scores First</option>

</select>

<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="18397">

<input type="submit" value="Refresh"></form>

</font></td><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top"><font class="content"><form action="modules.php?name=News&amp;file=comments" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="pid" value=""><input type="hidden" name="sid" value="18397"><input type="hidden" name="op" value="Reply">&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Post Comment"></font></form></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#B7B8DD" align="center"><font class="tiny">The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.</font></td></tr></table>

<!-- COMMENTS NAVIGATION BAR END -->

all that is needed to is to add one line

Code:

<a name="comments"></a>

Code:

<!-- COMMENTS NAVIGATION BAR START -->

<a name="comments"></a>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#B7B8DD"><tr><td>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="6" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><tr><td>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr><td bgcolor="#B7B8DD" align="center"><font class="content" color="#000000">"User's Login" | <a href="modules.php?name=Your_Account&amp;op=editcomm"><font color="#000000">Configure</font></a> | <B>0</B> comments</font></td></tr>

<tr><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center" width="100%">

<table border="0"><tr><td><font class="content">

<form method="post" action="modules.php?name=News&file=article">

<font color="#000000">Threshold</font> <select name="thold">

<option value="-1" selected>-1</option>

<option value="0">0</option>

<option value="1">1</option>

<option value="2">2</option>

<option value="3">3</option>

<option value="4">4</option>

<option value="5">5</option>

</select> <select name=mode><option value="nocomments">No Comments</option>

<option value="nested" selected>Nested</option>

<option value="flat">Flat</option>

<option value="thread">Thread</option>

</select> <select name="order"><option value="0" selected>Oldest First</option>

<option value="1">Newest First</option>

<option value="2">Highest Scores First</option>

</select>

<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="18397">

<input type="submit" value="Refresh"></form>

</font></td><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign="top"><font class="content"><form action="modules.php?name=News&amp;file=comments" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="pid" value=""><input type="hidden" name="sid" value="18397"><input type="hidden" name="op" value="Reply">&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Post Comment"></font></form></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#B7B8DD" align="center"><font class="tiny">The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.</font></td></tr></table>

<!-- COMMENTS NAVIGATION BAR END -->

now we are already half done ...
now us this link ...

instead of

Code:

http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18398&mode=nested&order=0&thold=-1

for both links - the comments link got to get the little addon

Code:

http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18398&mode=nested&order=0&thold=-1#comments

and voila we got a working comments button ... to satisfy at least the mertsch Big Grin

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06-10-2004 08:20 PM

El_Coyote
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Post: #2

yeh the comments link worked once i recall... but not anymore.. not that i'ts much of a hassle to scroll down anyways Tongue

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07-07-2004 09:46 PM

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