danfreak/cakephp-commentable-behavior

cakephp behavior plugin that allows any model to be commented upon

This plugin provides an easy way to include Commentable Behavior in your application. It also integrates Miles Johnson's (@gearvosh) CommentiaBehavior (http://www.milesj.me/resources/script/commentia-behavior) to enable some simple moderation of each comment before posting to the database.

Installation

• Clone from github : in your plugin directory type git clone git://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-commentable-behavior.git commentable
• Add as a git submodule : in the directory containing your app, type git submodule add git://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-commentable-behavior.git app/plugins/commentable
• Download an archive from github and extract it in app/plugins/commentable

Usage

1. In a model that needs slugging, add :

    var $actsAs = array('Commentable.Commentable')
   

2. Execute the SQL command contained at config/sql/comments.sql

3. Add the following to it's controller (I'm using the Post controller as an example) :

    function comment($id = null) {
    	if (!empty($this->data['Comment'])) {
    		if ($this->Post->createComment($id, $this->data)){
    			$this->Session->setFlash(__('Post was commented on', true), 'messages/success');
    			$this->redirect(array('action' => 'view', $id), 200, true);
    		} else {
    			$this->Session->setFlash(__('Post could not be commented on. Perhaps you left a field empty?', true), 'messages/error');
    		}
    	}
    }
   

4. And add the following to the view (in my case the posts/view.ctp file) you'd like to comment on:

    <h2><?php __('Post a Comment'); ?></h2>
    	<?php echo $form->create('Post', array('action' => 'comment')); ?>
    	<fieldset>
    		<legend><?php __('Add Comment');?></legend>
    		<?php
    			echo $form->input('Post.id');
    			echo $form->input('Comment.name');
    			echo $form->input('Comment.email');
    			echo $form->input('Comment.body');
    		?>
    	</fieldset>
    <?php echo $form->end('Submit'); ?>