Use "type" field to support configurable types of comments

[hvorragend]

EZComments currently has a "type" field, but it cannot be configured.

If I remember correctly, the type field is used to distinguish between different comment types (e.g. normal comments, or trackback comments).

Currently it's not possible to add custom types.

Use cases: I currently run 2 EZComments installations in parallel, to handle different types of comments. Using the type field, I could do with one install.

Excellent module otherwise - thanks.

stefaan
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comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by Stefaan

Summary changed from Use "type" field to support multiple types of comments to Use "type" field to support configurable types of comments

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by quan

Milestone set to EZComments 2.0

I do not know for what use case the type field was introduced once - perhaps you can explain how YOU would use the type fields?
comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by StefaanV

My current use case:

I have about 25 sections in my website, with different types of content. Let's take two examples:

1. one section contains user blogs
2. one section contains factual articles

This leads to two type of comments:

1. Blogs: typical comments are permanent - they are part of the discussion, offer additional info. Here it's important to keep the comments

2. articles: typical comments point out factual errors. Typical workflow: comments are processed, corrections are applied to article, comments are deleted.

To make it easier for editors, I've set up two EZComments systems in parallel: one for the permanent comments, one for the "errors and omissions" (here editors have permsissions to delete comments).

Other use case (probably more widely relevant):
I have about 20 different publication types in pagesetter. These include News, Blogs, etc.

As far as I can tell, EZComments can only classify these as "pagesetter" EZComments (no distinction between publication type). Besides the distinction between comment types mentioned above, I think the following use cases would be really useful:

1. Allow Editors to manage comments for a specific module or pagesetter publication( e.g. News editor can moderate News comments, "Recipes" editor can moderate recipe comments...

2. Allow Bloggers to manage comments on their own blog - so bloggers can moderate comments on their own posts.

I see pagesetter/pagemaster as the main module to benefit for this, but I can image it would be useful in photo gallery modules as well (people could manage ezcomments for "their" gallery).

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think at this moment EZComments can only distinguish between modules. So my idea was to use the "type" field as an easy way to distinguish between whatever is necessary - I can just add the type field whenever I call the hook.

Hope this makes sense :-)

Practically, it only requires minor modifications to the code.

The "type" field exists, but is currently limited to 2 values (hardcoded). Simply removing those hardcoded values would work already.
optionally, Providing a configuration option allowing admins to enter a list of values would work as well,
optionally, providing a filter in the admin list to only show a specific type would be nice as well.
optionally, Including the type field in the security scheme would make it complete. 

thanks,

stefaan

[paustian]

Again this would involve considerable work. The request is 9 years old. If someone is still interested, please let me know.