Add comments form directly below each image rather than link in sidebar...

Hi again guys,

My question is simple. Is there a module/easy way of having the comments form directly below each of the images, that way a user doesnt have to click on the "add comment" link in the sidebar, and go to a seperate page to add a comment.

This is something id really like to have on my gallery, i do know a fair bit about coding so am fairly competent to "attempt" most things, but is this something that would be easy to acheive or....?

Thanks for your time
Andrew

Thanks a lot dave. Did exactly what i wanted.

Now i gotta work out how to re-style the comment form. Ive been looking in the comment.css file, and there is pretty much no css which relates to the styling of the form itself. Ive checked out the theme im using's css and there is only styling on the viewing of comments.

I cant seem to find out where the css is to style the form fields themselves. any idea?

Thanks dave, i havent followed your instructions yet, but before i do, id just like to run something past you if thats ok. Id like to restyle my comments form to look exactly like other forms on my site.

How hard do you think the comment form is to modify to look like my forms on this page: http://www.mileycyrus-online.co.uk/latest/official-hannah-montana-movie-trailer.html

At the bottom you'll see a comments form. I have created all the css for that form, just need to implement it into the gallery2 comments form. Ive looked at the source code, and i have to be honest, it looks pretty difficult. what do you think mate?

Thank you for your advice dave.

It seems a bit complex, ill have to give it a try, but if anybody else reading this post can take on such a mod, contact me with your price.

thanks again dave. appreciate your time and advice!!!

Then add it.

Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team

Right, im now getting somewhere.

Ive worked out that my add comments file is actually in modules/comments/templates/local/addcomment.tpl

Ive managed to style the form with my correct border, padding etc, only problem now is when you actually click on the field to type something in, it reverts back to its old style.

Is there some sort of hover/selected style in the css that controls this? exmple: http://www.mileycyrus-online.co.uk/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1071

in theme.css the background color of the forms is changed when the form is in focus with

#gallery input:focus, #gallery textarea:focus {
    background-color: #ffc;
    color: #000;
}

Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team

modules/comments/templates/AddCommnent.tpl

    <h4> {g->text text="Subject"} </h4>

    {include file="gallery:modules/core/templates/MarkupBar.tpl" viewL10domain="modules_core"
	     element="subject" firstMarkupBar=true}

    <input type="text" id="subject" size="60" class="gcBackground1"
	   name="{g->formVar var="form[subject]"}" value="{$form.subject}"
	   onfocus="this.className=''" onblur="this.className='gcBackground1'"/>
    {if empty($inBlock)}
    <script type="text/javascript">
      document.getElementById('addCommentForm')['{g->formVar var="form[subject]"}'].focus();
    </script>
    {/if}

If you don't want the text subject just remove <h4> {g->text text="Subject"} </h4>
or you could remove the whole block of code if you don't need the subject.

    <h4>
      {g->text text="Comment"}
      <span class="giSubtitle"> {g->text text="(required)"} </span>
    </h4>

is the "Comment" and required.
Why all the {g-> text.... you ask? That is required for translations.

Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team

I have a problem that seemed to be solved for the topic starter but wasn't for me. The "Add Comment" link in the sidebar won't go away. Even though it's not part of the theme in any album, it's visible in every one. It seems like it's part of the "Item actions" because there are several actions visible on the side-bar that i don't want there. I guess i'll have to manually edit the code to get rid of it, but i can't figure out in which file i'm supposed to edit to customize what's visible on the side-bar.