Is this some hack in the drupal.org code, or have I seriously missed some setting? It would probably be diserably to provide such a setting on the comment control panel wouldn't it?
It's a hack. I've done something similar by offering a display option for "999 comments" over at Gamegrene.com. In my phptemplate, I use:
// changes/shortens the names of the available options, but // also adds a '999' option to the number of available comments. // this allows people to see all comments on one page, no flips. function phptemplate_comment_per_page_form($comments_per_page) { $options = ''; $comment_per_page = _comment_per_page(); $comment_per_page[] = '999'; foreach ($comment_per_page as $i) { $options .= " <option value=\"$i\"". ($comments_per_page == $i ? ' selected="selected"' : '') .'>'. t('%a comments/page', array('%a' => $i)) .'</option>'; } return "<select name=\"comments_per_page\">$options</select>\n"; }
Would the 0 special number be fine to signal an unlimited number? Or to put differently: is it desired that users be able to disable comment display (by setting their comment dislay number to 0), or is 0 free to take to use as a special number for 'unlimited'? Just collecting information to form a patch :) Goba