OSCOMdiscussion

Simple comments for Midgard sites

we have made a simple comments script for the OSCOM site to be compatible with the NemeinNavBar URL-to-content matching system.

The script is available under LGPL here:
OSCOMdiscussion2.xml.gz

Using OSCOMdiscussion

• Install the package using repligard:
  repligard -i OSCOMdiscussion2.xml.gz
• Create a "discussion topic", for example a rootlevel topic named OSCOMdiscussion
• Create a "guest user" that has write permissions to the discussion topic
• Add the guest user to a group
• Mark the group as the owner of the discussion topic
• Set three parameters to the discussion topic:
• OSCOMdiscussion, email_comments, user@domain.com
  for email address where new comments should be sent
• OSCOMdiscussion, guest_user, guest
  for the username of guest user
• OSCOMdiscussion, guest_pass, password
  for the password of guest user
• Then create articles under the discussion topic. These are the "discussions". Note the GUIDs of those articles
• Edit those topics or articles on your site where you want to include a discussion and add the following parameter:
  OSCOMdiscussion, GUID, b87b90adc2e1357eaeadfb6e81536af7
  pointing to GUID of one of the discussion articles created under the discussion topic
• Finally, edit your site, and add the following to end of your article/topic viewing page (typically the active root page):
  mgd_include_snippet("/OSCOMdiscussion/discussion");
• Edit the code-init element for that same page and add:
  mgd_include_snippet("/OSCOMdiscussion/discussion-init");

Note! OSCOMdiscussion expects that topics and articles are instanced as $article and $topic on your site, like for example NemeinNavBar does it.