AJAX Comments

I think the show/hide would be very do-able. But like you said it would still query the db so it would only be for cosmetic purposes.

Well, no, if it’s using AJAX, (if I understand correctly how AJAX works that is), it’d only query the database if the comments were requested to be displayed.

I mean, I have an AJAX powered search form on my site that displays search results as you type using the live loading of a PHP search results script.

I was thinking the same thing, except for comments.

Hmmm….not sure on the details of AJAX, but I understood it differently. But of course I have this nasty habit of being wrong about these sort of things. ??

If it DIDN’T query unless displayed, that would be uber-cool.

Take a look at Owen’s experiment:

https://asymptomatic.net/wp/2005/05/12/1576/canary-comment-testing/

I just added ajax comments to squible. You can see how it works by downloading the latest version of squible at https://www.squible.com/my-work/squible

Awesome! Any chance of making it a plugin or packaging up just that code by itself so I don’t have to go steal it manually outta your theme? (Sorry, but I have no interest in using your theme — it’s not for me. ;))

Hi Viper,

A plugin? No, but here are directions and a download.

i followed the directions…but when it says to replace the comments.php, i dont have a comments.php i have wp-comments-post and reply and other things but none that you refrence….

what do i do?

drazin, what version of wp are you running?

1.5.2

You may need to copy comments.php from the default theme folder then. Some themes don’t include that file….

drazin, you are looking for the comments.php in the wrong place! comments.php is a template files – which means it should be in wp-content/themes/yourtheme folder.
(wp-comments-post.php is in the root dir of WP!)

hello, im use wp 2.0 why its not work ??

I just borrowed the comments.php and ajaxcomments files from K2: https://www.binarybonsai.com/k2/

just wanted to see how these comments work