Developer Template Documentation v4.13

fm:CommentList

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Example

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Supported attributes

Name	Required	Default	Description
dateFormat	Optional	%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s	This allows you to specify how the 'time' template variable is displayed.
evenClass	Optional		The contents of this attribute will be placed in the 'loop.evenClass' template variable, only for even row-numbers. This allows you to give every even row a specific css class
maxChars	Optional	N/A	If this attribute is supplied, a comment_shortComment template variable will be available. This variable will have as much characters as specified here.
mid	Optional	N/A	Specify the mid to only show comments on a specific media-item
moderationStatus	Optional	N/A	This allows you to override the vhost's moderationstatus. Use 0 for unapproved files, 1 for accepted files, 2 for denied files. Leave this empty for everything.
oddClass	Optional		The contents of this attribute will be placed in the 'loop.oddClass' template variable, only for odd row-numbers. This allows you to give every odd row a specific css class
pageSize	Optional	50	Limit the number of comments per page by this number
sort	Optional	time ASC	By using the sort attribute you can order the commentlist on a specific field, for example time DESC
startPage	Optional	0	The current page in the comment list. The offset is determined by multiplying the pageSize with the startPage. The first page is page 0.
uid	Optional	N/A	Specify the uid to only show comments from a specific user

Deprecated Attributes

Optional notes about the supported attributes.

Template variables

Name	Description
loop.hasResults	The contents of this variable will be either 0 or 1, depending on if there are items in the list.
loop.oddClass	The contents of this variable will reflect the "oddClass" attribute. This will only be set for odd rownumbers.
loop.evenClass	The contents of this variable will reflect the "evenClass" attribute. This will only be set for even rownumbers.
loop.index	The 0-based index of the item in the loop. (Will contain 0,1,2,3,4, etc.)
loop.count	The count of the current item in the loop. (Will contain 1,2,3,4,5 etc.)
loop.currentPage	If a pager is involved in this loop, this will contain the current page number (0-based index). If page information is not available, this will be 0.
loop.currentPage1	This value is currentPage + 1. This number can be useful to display the current page number to use user. (people generally count from 1, not 0).
loop.totalPages	Total number of pages avaiable in this loop. This will be 0 if the loop does not support paging.
loop.totalItems	Total number of individual items. This will be 0 if the loop does not support paging.
loop.pageSize	Total number of items on 1 single page. This will be 0 if the loop does not support paging.
comment_comment	The actual comment.
comment_id	The unique id for this comment.
comment_mid	The mediaitem for which this was a comment to.
comment_offset	The offset of the comment in the requested list.
comment_owner_id	The user-id from the person who owns the commented file.
comment_owner_name	The username from the person who owns the commented file.
comment_poster_name	The username of the person making the comment.
comment_time	The time the comment was made.
comment_uid	The user-id from the person who made the comment.

Optional notes about supported template variables.

See also

• List of related pages in the documentation here.

More examples

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