Right, but this is a contrib module designed for sites that need that sort of functionality and not headed for do. No?<br><br>William<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Strauss
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Unfortunately, treating comments as nodes in response to nodes makes the<br>database optimizations particularly difficult for the tracker. It's not<br>impossible to make it run fast, but treating comments as special kinds
<br>of nodes takes much elegance out of the design.<br><br>Robert Douglass wrote:<br>> Since it came up, I'll draw everyone's attention to the nodecomment<br>> module which makes comments into nodes. Rather, it uses one node type to
<br>> be the comment type of another node type. To me (and the other<br>> Lullabots) this makes a lot of sense. All that is needed is a 1:n<br>> mapping between a parent and its children and some special display. What
<br>> makes the nodecomment module really special, however, is that the<br>> rendering of the "comments" is handed off to the views module (which is<br>> a requirement), so you could display your comments in totally
<br>> non-traditional ways, such as in a table or in a calendar.<br>><br>> One of the most useful applications that this module has found is also<br>> the impetus for its creation: voting widgets in the comments that vote
<br>> on the parent node. I'm creating a site, for example, where the comments<br>> are all ratings of the parent node, and each comment needs to have four<br>> separate fivestar widgets. To do this, the comment node type has four
<br>> CCK fields from the fivestar module where the target of the voting is<br>> set as arg(1)... meaning the fields belong to the comment nodes but the<br>> votes belong to the parent node. Very cool.<br>><br>
> We've had clients who have requests like wanting to promote comments to<br>> the front page, or rate comments, or categorize comments etc. This<br>> module fills those needs.<br>><br>> The release says it is beta, and I stick by that, but it is worth noting
<br>> that this beta code probably serves 5 million page views a day or more<br>> on live (rockstar) websites.<br>><br>> -Robert<br>><br>> <a href="http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment">http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
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