Remove "login to post comments" prompt from Story pages

As for me, I only think the links on teasers (front page) are a bad thing - just tried to sort this for Drupal 6: http://drupal.org/node/169938 - let's see if this one will be accepted into core. Perhaps the patch will also work for Drupal 5, the code doesn't seem to be changed.

Removing links also on full node-pages means in fact disallowing comments at all (no way to reach the comment-submit form left), so I don't see how this is useful. If you want to disallow comments at all, just do it in Access control, or even disable comment module completely. If you want it only for certain content types, set the workflow on these content types to have comments disabled by default (which is also possible on single nodes if you're logged in as admin). Just look at the admin pages, there's a lot of useful settings.

I wanted to remove the "Add Comment" on node teasers...

NOTE: Simple Review module users, the $links[comment_add] key is altered to be "Review this Article," but you can nip the issue in the bud at the comment.module level :)

Go to about line 320 in comment.module and find this...

if ($node->comment == COMMENT_NODE_READ_WRITE) {
  if(!teaser) {      // -------- Here is my teaser test
    if (user_access('post comments')) {
      $links['comment_add'] = array(
        'title' => t('Add new comment'),
        'href' => "comment/reply/$node->nid",
        'attributes' => array('title' => t('Add a new comment to this page.')),
        'fragment' => 'comment-form'
      );
    }    // -------- This ends the teaser test 
    else {
      $links['comment_forbidden']['title'] = theme('comment_post_forbidden', $node->nid);
    }
  }
}

Add in the $teaser test as an if statement. (I've marked it in code comments.)

There's a bug open on this... people who can't log in anyway, or couldn't post comments if they did log in, shouldn't be shown that message.

Hi,
I just found this post as I had the same problem and have figured out how you are "supposed" to do it (in Drupal 6).

First option: override the comment_post_forbidden in your theme, as someone mentioned above. Actually all you need to include in your function is the following:

/**
 * Theme a "you can't post comments" notice.
 *
 * @param $node
 *   The comment node.
 * @ingroup themeable
 */
function THEME_NAME_comment_post_forbidden($node) {
	return '';
}

However I discovered this leaves some HTML <ul> tags behind which mucked up the alignment of my other links. So I wrote my own module (if you've never done it, this takes about 30 minutes of studying the module developers handbook to understand). Then I put this function in the module which really removes the item from the links and voila, problem solved:

/**
* Implementation of hook_link_alter()
* removes "login to post comment" links
*/
function MODULE_NAME_link_alter(&$links, $node) {
  foreach ($links AS $module => $link) {
    if (strcmp('comment_forbidden', $module) == 0) {
      // it's a "login to post comment" link, remove it
      unset($links[$module]);
    }
  }
}

Lot of PHP and suggestions here... Why not just edit the content type so that comments are disabled. If they are disabled then they won't get prompted to login and leave comments.

Sorry. See http://drupal.org/node/170065#comment-855410.

One would think that not displaying a silly message that appears to anonymous visitors to a a site that invites them to log in to post comments, will be a setting that can be toggled on or off.

But no, EVERY solution above barring disabling comments totally for the content type is a convoluted hack!

And yes, googling around, this issue has been around since Drupal 4.x and the solution, time and again, is to go and hack Drupal core by commenting out the appropriate lines in the comments module. Alternately to go and write a module. Or editing a php template file in ways that even I don't understand what is going on.

AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT THINKS THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS?

While a lot is being done to "supposedly" make Drupal easier, there are a lot of simply crazy stuff that just remains and which makes Drupal difficult to use. And this is a very good example!

Only a small subset of people have the technical skills to implement the changes above. And in reality - EVERY solution above is a hack.

I despair, because those with the technical skills are chasing a target called Drupal 7, hopefully releasing it before Christmas this year. In reality I will probably never be able to upgrade some Drupal 5 websites since some critical modules that do exactly the job I want it to do, will in all likelyhood never be upgraded to Drupal 6 and beyond.

Really, I despair - this is supposed to be something so easy, yet it is so confoundedly difficult!!!

Casper Labuschagne

there are Methods to do.

1. you can edit the content type, without user can post comment or Choose （comment write or read）none when you post story pages.

2. comment-type.tpl.php type is stroy, set $content = null in it.

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Ya really it is....

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Its a shame that such a beautiful system like Drupal
has these minor inconveniences. Hacking through the
source code to do such a small job is pretty dumb as
once I update the site to the latest version changes
are gone and I have to do them again.

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I might have misunderstood the question, but what I do (in Drupal 6) for content type I've created, is go to:

Administer » Content management
Content
Go to the particular Page, Story, etc and click on edit. Then scroll down to "Comment Settings". Choose "disabled".

In your theme template file "template.php" ( in a custom template ) add this theme function and set the value off the element called "comment forbiden" to empty it or unset it.

function YORTHEMENAME_preprocess_comment(&$variables, $hook) {
  if((user_is_anonymous() === TRUE) 
  && (isset($variables['content']['links']['comment']['#links']['comment_forbidden']) 
  && (!empty($variables['content']['links']['comment']['#links']['comment_forbidden'])))) {
    // Set to empty
    $variables['content']['links']['comment']['#links']['comment_forbidden']['title'] = '';

     // OR unset it
    unset($variables['content']['links']['comment']['#links']['comment_forbidden']['title']);
  }
}

This remove "Login to post comments." under all comments, but not above the form.

Maybe I have a slightly different issue, but I wish to view and maintain comments on my site as administrator, but not even have the fact that comments module is installed visible to visitors. I have NO login users, and have to overtly access the login page with ?q=user on the URL.

What I believe the OP was looking for was a way to drop the prompt but still allow comments for authenticated users. By disallowing comments for authenticated users as well as visitors, I got the prompt to go away. It needs to be a configurable option of the comments module whether or not to prompt for login.

Is there a simple way I can change the wording of the "Read more" link in the teasers? I'd like to change it to "Read more …" -- but I need to know where to find it first. Thanks!