hack for email notification to threaded comment au

  • so i love the threaded comments hack by LaughingLizard and hope it gets into the main package soon. but i don’t like that it doesn’t notify authors of comments when there is a reply to their post.
    here’s a hack that provides that functionality, to be applied after you apply the threaded comments hack.
    in wp-includes/functions.php:
    change line
    function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment') {

    to be
    function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment', $comment_reply_ID='') {

    change line
    if ('' == $user->user_email) return false; // If there's no email to send the comment to

    to be
    if ('' == $user->user_email && 'reply' != $comment_type) return false; // If there's no email to send the comment to or if it's a reply

    insert after
    if ('comment' == $comment_type) {

    the following lines
    $comment_reply = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT comment_reply_ID FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_ID = '$comment_id'");
    $comment_reply_ID = $comment_reply->comment_reply_ID;
    if($comment_reply_ID != '') wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, 'reply', $comment_reply_ID);

    insert after
    $subject = '[' . $blogname . '] Pingback: "' .stripslashes($post->post_title).'"';
    }

    the following lines
    elseif ('reply' == $comment_type) {
    $mail_row = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT comment_author_email FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_ID = $comment_reply_ID");
    $mail_addr = $mail_row->comment_author_email;
    if('' == $mail_addr) return false;
    $notify_message = "New reply to your comment #$comment->comment_reply_ID in post \"".stripslashes($post->post_title)."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $notify_message .= "Author : $comment->comment_author\r\n";
    $notify_message .= "Website: $comment->comment_author_url\r\n";
    $notify_message .= "Comment:\r\n".stripslashes($comment->comment_content)."\r\n\r\n";
    $notify_message .= "You can see all comments on this post here: \r\n";
    $subject = '[' . $blogname . '] Comment: "' .stripslashes($post->post_title).'"';
    }

    let me know if it works/doesn’t work for you.

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  • Nice development!
    I have a quick question though. Your submit comment script says that the emails submitted won’t be seen by anyone, but I can see the email address of folks that have left comments in the link with their name as “mailto:[email protected]”.
    So these email addresses are visible to the world at large, as such, isn’t it?
    Another point – Maybe you could have a question
    “would you like to receive emails when replies are posted?” Yes/No
    so people can submit their email as always and then choose not to get an automated email when a comment is posted.
    And – would emails be sent to only when replies to the same comment are posted, or also when someone leaves a reply to a comment posted in response to the comment. (quite involved, but I hope you see what I mean.)
    ?? I was just thinking about the lack of this email notify feature in threaded comments yesterday.
    Thanks, I will probably get it working soon.

    Thread Starter lithboy

    (@lithboy)

    so i can’t tell what you’re talking about. the hack itself doesn’t that that; just the comments post page on my site says that, because i hide the commenter’s emails.
    also, the features suggested in the other post of this hack (screwed up special characters though, so i reposted here) would be awesome, but i don’t have time to implement them. the person that suggested them has some great ideas and should definitely implement them!

    I got error on line 1514.
    I’m using 1.0.1 at the moment, should I upgrade to 1.0.2 first?

    Thread Starter lithboy

    (@lithboy)

    what’s the error (and the lines around the line that failed)?

    2fargon – your comment about the email not being displayed is a”problem” with WP… if the commentor does not enter a URL, then their address gets turned into a mailto link instead of a link to their website. The way I’d like to see it done is to have a setting that allows me to force a name and address (at a minimum, with a web addr optional). Then when comments are displayed, if they supplied a URL link, then their name would get converted to a link, if they didn’t then just display their name un-linked to anything.
    TG

    Thanks, TG, maybe this should be brought to the attention of the devs(I don’t know if you are one ?? )

    Nope, but I just started a thread requesting that the name be un-linked in the event that no URL was submitted. Seems to only make sense to me.
    TG

    Thread Starter lithboy

    (@lithboy)

    fwiw, that’s a good recommendation, i hope it gets implemented (along with threaded comments, replies like i have implemented, and a lot of other features that should have been in 1.0)…

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