vanilla_comments

Easily integrate embedded comments feature of Vanilla Forums into tx_news. Supports:

• Show number of comments in ListView via ViewHelper
• Show and add comments in DetailView via ViewHelper
• Get number of comments of specific news via Webservice-Method

ViewHelpers in Fluid-Templates

// namespace
{namespace vanilla=Andinger\VanillaComments\ViewHelpers}

// get comments count in list view
<vanilla:count news="{newsItem}" />

// comments in detail view
<vanilla:comments news="{newsItem}" />

Service Class

$service = Andinger\VanillaComments\Services\CountService::getInstance();

// add complete news list to reduce the number of slow webservice calls
// if $newsItem doesn't exist in $allNewsInList, 0 is returned ...

$count = $service->getCount($allNewsInList, $newsItem);

Install

• Install Vanilla Forum with JsConnect-Extension

• Git clone extension into Extension-Directory

• Install via Extension Manager

• Add the following line into the typo3-htaccess-file

  RewriteRule ^routing/(.*)$ /index.php?eID=routing&route=$1 [QSA,L]

• Configure JsConnect-Plugin in Vanilla Forum with the following SSO-Path:

  http:///routing/vanilla_comments/sso

• Define Client-Id and Secret in Vanilla Forum ... Save

• Fill in Client-Id, Secret and Vanilla-Forum-URL in extension-config in TYPO3-Extension Manager

• Done

TYPO3-Integration

• Enable/Disable comments per News-Record
• Define ID of Vanilla-Forum category in TYPO3-sys_category-Records