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yii-comments : Comments Module for Yii

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yii-comments is a module for Yii Framework which allows you to make any instance of CActiveRecord commentable. This is a modification of the comments module available from https://www.yiiframework.com/extension/comments-module/ It is supposed that you have user module installed.

[Note: This extension isn’t maintained any more.]

Changes:

  • Added Gravatar Support
  • Better Comment Management
  • Admin interface for editing comments
  • Admin interface for comments settings
  • Anchor for each comments (e.g. http://example.com/page/1#comment-12)
  • Better User Interaction
  • and others.

Installation

Via Git:

From inside the modules directory in your application:

git clone https://github.com/awecode/comments.git

OR Download : https://github.com/awecode/comments/zipball/master
Extract the contents and move to comments folder inside modules.

Execute the following SQL queries to create table and insert default comment settings.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `comment` (
`id` int(12) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`owner_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`owner_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`count` int(11) NOT NULL,
`parent_id` int(12) DEFAULT NULL,
`creator_id` int(12) DEFAULT NULL,
`user_name` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
`user_email` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
`comment_text` text,
`create_time` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`update_time` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`status` int(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`link` text,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `comment_setting` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`model` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`registeredOnly` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`useCaptcha` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`allowSubcommenting` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`premoderate` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`isSuperuser` text,
`orderComments` enum('ASC','DESC') NOT NULL DEFAULT 'ASC',
`useGravatar` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

INSERT INTO `comment_setting` (`id`, `model`, `registeredOnly`, `useCaptcha`, `allowSubcommenting`, `premoderate`, `isSuperuser`, `orderComments`, `useGravatar`) VALUES
(1, 'default', 0, 0, 1, 1, 'Yii::app()->getModule("user")->isAdmin()', 'ASC', 1);

Edit config/main.php:

'import' => array(
        'application.modules.comments.widgets.*',
        'application.modules.comments.components.*',
        'application.modules.comments.models.*',
        ...
    ),
'modules' => array(
        ...
        'comments' => array(
            'userConfig' => array(
                'class' => 'User',
                'nameProperty' => 'username',
                'emailProperty' => 'email',
            ),
        ),
),

Usage:

Add $this->widget('Comments', array('model' => $model)); to the view of any model to make it commentable.

Go to the URL /comments to manage comments and to play with the settings.

Downloads

git clone https://github.com/awecode/comments.git
or download from here.