Adding Comments to GroupJive

Written by Steve Burge

Group Jive Ok - time to walk the walk.

Yesterday, I praised GroupJive and said how important I though it was for the future of social networking with Joomla. I also mentioned that until this week, not enough people had been contributing.

Today, we'll show you had to add a useful feature to GroupJive - posting comments on all group messages.

This uses Jomcomment from Azrul.com.

Creating the Output

Open up components/com_groupjive/groupjive.html.php
Scroll down to // create template output (around line 276)
Look for $tmpl->addVar( 'showfullmessage', 'GJ_POST', $d->post);
After this line add this:

include_once("mambots/content/jom_comment_bot.php");

$tmpl->addVar( 'showfullmessage', 'GJ_JOMCOMMENT', jomcomment($d->id, "com_groupjive") );

Adding the Comments to Your Template

Open up components/com_groupjive/templates/your-template/groupjive.tmpl
Scroll down to the section saying <mos:tmpl name="showfullmessage">
After {GJ_POST} you need to add {GJ_JOMCOMMENT}. If neccesary, add a new table row.

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Your Comments (6)

Klaus Nitsche

June 30, 2007

Hi Steve,

your include_once statement uses an absolute path that will probably not work for anybody else ... might be better to use a relative path starting with "mambots/...".

Kind regards,
Zorro

Steve Burge

June 30, 2007

Thanks for the heads up, Zorro. Thats whats known as a "Friday post" smilies/wink.gif

Pavel

August 21, 2007

Hi!
I need this feature... but tell me pls what Version of GroupJive do you use???
this change doesn`t make any effect with my groups....

Tobias Bornakke

April 22, 2008

Hi.

Your integration does not seem to work with the newest edition of JomComment (2.2). Are imagning that it might only be a small change in location, but my knowledge of php is very limited. Do you have any suggestions?

Best regard
Tobias Bornakke

Tobias Bornakke

May 05, 2008

Found the solution:

http://www.groupjive.org/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=45&func=view&catid=48&id=4915#4915

Best regard
Tobias Bornakke

guido

May 11, 2008

now it would be nice if people could join the pledge for 1.5 native groupjive version! :-)
http://micropledge.com/projects/groupjive-joomla-1-5-native-update