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Joomla Commentator! 
Version
1.0beta
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
3
Favoured
3
License
GPL
Non-Commercial
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12347
Date Added
19 February 2009
Any joomla component can use Commentator to manage its comments, it works as simple as CORE Categories component, developers can fully customize the layouts, using output override tecnic.
As all other comments systems for joomla Commentator also add native support to articles you just need to activate the plugin write {comments} in part of the article.
Commentator Is used in (and is part of) JMultimedia Project. and can also be used by and other component that follow joomla standards
Commentator have very simple features, it may look very limitated for end user yet, our focus on this version is to build a stable and very flexibe architecture, this version is very developers friendily, so if you are doing a comenteable component Commentator had already done the hard work you can improve it an pass it on
* Commentantor is wildly open, fell free to copy change and pass it on, you can also send your changes, developers are very welcome to join Commentator!
############### HOW TO start #
1) Install com_comments, mod_comments & plg_comments
2) Enable the Comments plugin
3) Customize plugin params *if needed
############### HOW TO (add Comments to Articles) #
4) write {comments} any where inside the article you whish to be commented
############### HOW TO (add Comments a 3rd party component) #
// Reference for components developers,
// user dont know that
global $mainframe; // Get mainframe object
// Arguments for the event
$args = array(
// Pice of comments you want.
'complete', // "complete" means comments "list" + "form"
// Commentable Item row or ID
&$item // always needed to know what item to comment
);
// get the commens list
$res = $mainframe->triggerEvent('onGetComments', $args );
//Response is an array but only the first value is used
@$res[0];// this is the HTML of our comments
// For more details loot at jmultimedia code
# no captcha support yet, The project is very open if you wanna to improve you can join the core
bysirokko on April 26, 2009
Good component, easy usage. But in this version (1.0b)didn't work showing captcha picture.