Description

If you want to show a dept counter of all comments you can use this snippet.
The counters work like this:

  • 1 comment
    • 1 reply
    • 2 reply
      • 1 reply to reply
    • 3 reply
  • 2 comment
  • 3 comment

Step 1 of 2

Add this to your template.php

/**
 * Implementation of hook_preprocess_comment to add the comment_depth_counter to every comment.
 *
 */
function YOUR_THEME_NAME_preprocess_comment(&$variables){
	static $depths_counter;
	$variables['comment_depth_counter'] = ++$depths_counter[$variables['comment']->nid][$variables['comment']->pid];
}

Step 2 of 2

Use the variable $comment_depth_counter in your comment.tpl.php file.

Comments

Adam Neutrik’s picture

Adam Neutrik commented

I did something similar for numbered node teasers in D7.

/**
 * Override or insert variables into the node template.
 */
function fassette_preprocess_node(&$variables) {

  // Implementation of hook_preprocess_node to add node_depth_counter to every node.
    static $depths_counter;
    $variables['node_depth_counter'] = ++$depths_counter;
}

Step 2: Use the variable $node_depth_counter in your node.tpl.php file.
For example here:
<div id="node-<?php print $node->nid; ?>" class="<?php print $node_depth_counter; ?> <?php print $classes; ?> clearfix"<?php print $attributes; ?>>

If you ask me, this simple task should be included in core generally. We have sooo many class attributes rendered already, why we don't have a simple counted number ot the node when it gets rendered to the output of more than one node in a page? This would make us possible to define css for every third or 10th node in the list (useful to clearfix in a magazine kind of template for example). I am sure this would be much easier and better performed by getting implementented in core than in prerocessing functions.

intrafusion’s picture

intrafusion
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Location Edinburgh, UK
commented

Anyone landing here from Google, etc. the Drupal 10 version is:

use Drupal\Component\Utility\Number;

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_HOOK().
 */
function YOUR_THEME_NAME_preprocess_comment(&$variables) {
  /** @var \Drupal\comment\CommentInterface $comment */
  $comment = $variables['comment'];
  $thread = rtrim($comment->getThread(), '/');
  $variables['comment_number'] = Number::alphadecimalToInt($thread);
}