After some furious coding, I've enabled comments on the "news" section of the website. I should be enabling it on the rest of the subsections sometime tomorrow. To post a comment, you must be logged in. Regular users can see posted comments without being logged in, but are unable to post themselves.
The comments also use Markdown, so you'll be able to style your text just as you can with regular stories. In addition, each comment is color-coded to the member who posts it, so be sure to go into the author section to change your color to something easy to recognize.
I've also tweaked the page so that you won't get the annoying refresh-accidental-double-post problem. When you click "add comment", the comment is added to the database and then the page is generated later. So no matter how many times you click refresh, you won't get an annoying "you submitted a form via POST" message or the equally frustrating sight of multiple posts.
After I finish adding the comment form to the rest of the subsection pages, I'll have completed 1/3 of the coding work left on the site. The remaining 2/3 should be just as difficult, but even more rewarding for you, the user. So go test it out today!
Comments
Yay! I love to comment!
| edwardI love that we can use Markdown in the comments fields.
Yeah, this is a shameless plug. So what?
posted at: 2004-10-14 23:39:12Break me.
| edwardEveryone should tell me when things break...or if a new feature is needed.
posted at: 2004-10-14 23:40:14No More Subject Markdown | edward
I removed the markdown field from the subject line. I think it's better that way.
posted at: 2004-10-14 23:42:00Preview | edward
And, yes, I know that there is currently no "preview" button. I'm not sure if I want to add one. There's also no spell-checker but I'm not that concerned about the lack of either.
Are you?
posted at: 2004-10-14 23:43:11