doc/todo/allow_displaying_number_of_comments.mdwn



My numcomments Git branch adds a NUMCOMMENTS TMPL_VAR, which is
useful to add to the forumpage.tmpl template to emulate (the nice
bits of) a more usual webforum.
Please review... and pull :)
-- [[intrigeri]]

How is having this variable for showing a count of the comments
better (or more forum-ish) than the COMMENTSLINK variable which
includes a count and a link to the comments, and is already displayed
in inlinepage.tmpl?
num_comments will never return undef.
I see no need to add a second pagetemplate hook.
The existing one can be added to. Probably inside its if ($shown)
block.
It may also be a good idea to either combine the calls to num_comments
used for this and for the commentslink,
or to memoize it. I'm thinking generally memoizing it may be a good idea
since the comments for a page will typically be counted twice when it's
inlined.
--[[Joey]]

[[patch]]


Well, the COMMENTSLINK variable fits my needs. Sorry for
the disturbance. [[done]] --[[intrigeri]]