Hacks Listing

Posted by michelle on March 23, 2007 at 7:04pm

I've been searching through the forums looking for stuff to help me customize my forums. I've found some snippits and hacks and thought I'd gather the links here. Warning: Some of these hack core, which is really not recommended.

Add pager to top of page:
http://drupal.org/node/79352#comment-148773
http://drupal.org/node/79352#comment-223909

Replace text links with buttons:
http://drupal.org/node/56127#comment-111222

Change "add new comment" to "reply":
http://drupal.org/node/78562#comment-145094

Moving the forum header:
http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/913#comment-253

That's if for now... Will add more as I find them.

Michelle

Comments

Change comment links

Posted by heine on March 23, 2007 at 11:09pm

We have a hook_link_alter nowadays that can be used to change the link. One could also change $node->links['comment_add']['title'] in node.tpl.php and then - instead of print $links - use print theme('links', $node->links, array('class' => 'links inline')).

This can be beautified by moving the code to template.php's variable hook.

Elaborate, please?

Posted by michelle on March 24, 2007 at 2:52pm

I tried to do the template.php route, but I don't think I know what I'm doing enough. There is this code there already (from flatforum):

    $variables['links'] = empty($vars['links']) ? '&nbsp' : $vars['links'];

So immediately before it I put:

    $vars['links']['comment_add']['title'] = "reply";

I also tried doing

    $variables['links']['comment_add']['title'] = "reply";

Neither of those had any effect. What should I be putting there?

Thanks,

Michelle

Links isn't the right

Posted by heine on March 24, 2007 at 10:47pm

Links isn't the right variable here, because it is a holding a string (links in HTML) set in phptemplate_node (themes/engines/phptemplate.engine: 272):

<?php
'links'          => $node->links ? theme('links', $node->links, array('class' => 'links inline')) : '',
?>

What you need to modify is $node->links, then regenerate $links to hold the new info, which would go a bit like:

<?php
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {
// rest of the _phptemplate_variables function

// Now, in $hook == 'node':
if (!empty($vars['node']->links) && !empty($vars['node']->links['comment_add'])) {
  $vars['node']->links['comment_add']['title'] = t('Reply');
  $variables['links'] = theme('links', $vars['node']->links, array('class' => 'links inline'));
}
?>