Comments invite

Contents

• Syntax
• Attributes
  • Common presentational attributes
• Examples
  • Example 1: Display comments invitation and comment count

Syntax

<txp:comments_invite />

The comments_invite tag is a single tag which is used to display a link to an article comment form. Text used for the link will be taken from the invitation field on the Textpattern Write panel.

This tag can be used in both Textpattern Page templates and Form templates.

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

showalways="boolean"

Whether to display invite on individual article page.

Values: 0 (no) or 1 (yes).

Default: 0.

showcount="boolean"

Whether to display comment count.

Values: 0 (no) or 1 (yes).

Default: 1.

textonly="boolean"

Whether to display invite as text, rather than a hyperlink.

Values: 0 (no) or 1 (yes).

Default: 0.

Common presentational attributes

These attributes, which affect presentation, are shared by many tags. Note that default values can vary among tags.

class="class name"

HTML class to apply to the wraptag attribute value.

Default: comments_invite (see class cross-reference).

wraptag="tag"

HTML tag to wrap around invite text, specified without brackets (e.g. wraptag="p").

Default: unset (but see wraptag cross-reference for exceptions).

Examples

Example 1: Display comments invitation and comment count

<txp:if_comments>
    <txp:comments_invite wraptag="p" />
</txp:if_comments>

This will display the comments invitation and a comment count (but only if there are any comments associated with the current article).

Other tags used: if_comments.