Comment links

[chrisburton]

Can someone help me figure out the logic to creating links to individual comments?

Examples:

http://domain.com/articles/made-with-kirby/#comment-1

OR

http://domain.com/articles/pairing-webtype/#comment-197

[chrisburton]

Ooh, wait. Perhaps I can use the id column for this?

[TheDoc]

That should work! (not that I know what I’m doing)

[chrisburton]

Haha. I agree, it should do the job.

@TheDoc Side note: You should watch these Harvard CS lectures I have. It’s what educated me on how to use $_SESSION and a few other things.

[chrisburton]

Can someone tell me how to stop the permalink from adding a slash to my url?

http://chrisburton.me/dev/articles/made-with-kirby#comment-111

Keep clicking the hash symbol while watching the address bar.

[__]

How are you making the links? The slash is in your href.

[chrisburton]

@traq Correct but how can I stop it from adding an additional forward slash?

Preferred when multiple clicks are triggered (stays the same):

/made-with-kirby/#comment-111

Reality:

/made-with-kirby//#comment-111

[__]

Not sure you can (except via js, of course).

What I was getting at is that the link you posted above doesn’t have a slash before the hash. Do you want one (and only one)? or would you be happy with no slashes at all? In the latter case, you can simply leave the slash out of the href, and it will always look like

/made-with-kirby#comment-111

no matter how many times you click it.

[chrisburton]

Do you want one (and only one)?

Yes, exactly.

[__]

hmm… again, how are you creating these links? can you show me the code that writes them?

[TheDoc]

Would need to see how the links are being generated in the first place.

[chrisburton]

The links are generated by appending the id from the database.

Outputs domain and directory (domain.com/articles/article-title)

$page = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Inside a foreach loop, this grabs the corresponding id from each particular row

$permalink = $comment['id'];

Generates a link (domain.com/articles/article-title/#comment-123)

echo '<a href="'.$page.'/#comment-'.$permalink.'">#</a>'

[__]

echo '<a href="'.rtrim( $page,'/' ).'/#comment-'.$permalink.'">#</a>'

[chrisburton]

As simple as rtrim(). Thank you @traq!

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