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.
  

Further Reading

• How to integrate Jomcomment with other components. (Warning - looks like the page has currently been hacked. The links are safe, but beware)