items tagged with opencomment

• I am able to understand xajax development and error messages faster now
• Nearly all basic functions are AJAX enable: rating, admin function, publishing, sorting, filtering etc...
• I have start to refactore the code and clean out dead and bad code,
• I am able to use some basic Joomla library (while not being in a Joomla session).

• All operation are done WITHOUT reloading the whole page,
• This thing is lightning fast
• The AJAX library has reduce the code of at least 30% (no more form, no submit, no code to compute redirect url etc...)
  

• Dont ask for a release date, it will be ready when it is ready!
• Adding security and reviewing code has to be done, I dont want to let hackers missuse the system.
• The PHP code is commited to Joomla forge,
  
• The PHP code is right now still joomla 1.0.9 compatible, I think I need less than a day to migrate code to Joomla 1.5 API
• No installer or complete admin panel (70%) right now, will be done at the end.
• Contact me if You want to help.
  

Please Note: Opencomment Beta do not migrate previous akocomment entries, it use its own mysql tables. But he final version will. Do not use in production, it shall not break anything but we never know ;-) Opencomment Beta do not require captcha (com_SecurityImages) [www.captcha.net], since it use a derivative of com_Hashcash [www.hashcash.org]. Robots or Bots can't submit entries wihtout parsing the form and sending at each request a valid serverTicket and articleTicket. Both have timeout and are encrypted to avoid replaying attacks. If somehow it wont be enough, I am currently polishing the integration of  com_SecurityImages and may also release com_askimet [Askimet]

• Not all translations are  done, a lot of fix texts are still in  code.

You can see here the state of com_opencomment cvs HEAD after a coding marathon...

Dont be so enthousiast, there is some nasty bugs in it...and not all functionalities are in place (email, rating) but the opencommentbot is more than finished...

The feature show/hide a la Phil Taylor (many request) is working but do not forget that it use a trick: it only change wih javascript the visibility of a DIV element -> the user is still loading all comments and the page is still as heavy as before, the only win is that the user do not get disturb by the number of comments...

Concerning existing comments, no worry, I will provide during the install scripts to rename, alter the akocomment tables.

New functionnalities are what You see in the picture +
//below are settings with still no panel entries
$opencomment_allowcommenttracking = "1";
$opencomment_allowrevisiontracking = "0";
$opencomment_textAreaSize = "8";
$opencomment_textAreaWidth = "75%";
//0 beside textarea
//1 below toolbar
//2 below textarea
$opencomment_smiley_position = "0";
$opencomment_smiley_perLine = "3";
//mail sent to user as html or txt?
$opencomment_templateAs = "html";

//show unhide link in each comment footer
$opencomment_commentRating = "1";
$opencomment_commentPermalink = "1";
$opencomment_commentDisplayRate = "1";
$opencomment_commentEmailIt = "1";

Code is in CVS, any help or support as always is appreciated ;-)

I've receive a great logo submission for opencomment from Takster: