By sickhippie on

Just wondering if it is possible to have the comments on a forum automatically fill with RE:

I've been search through the modules for the last couple hours and can't find where to modify this. My PHP is pretty well limited to SMF - I've got almost no CMS experience (unless you count that ordeal with Mambo, but let's not talk about that)... Any ideas? I'm sure I'm not the first person that's asked this.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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ahoeben commented

I have written a module that does just that, but am awaiting CVS access so I can post it. I'll likely be granted CVS access this thursday (or so I was told when I subscribed for a CVS account).

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sickhippie commented

That would be wonderful. I'll just keep my eye on this thread, then.

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ahoeben commented

Another thursday went by without CVS access :-(, so here's the module for now:


/**
 * Implementation of hook_help().
 */
function comment_subject_help($section) {
  switch ($section) {
    case 'admin/modules#description':
      return t('Provides a default comment subject: \'Re: [parent comment/node title]\'.');
  }
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_form_alter().
 */
function comment_subject_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
  if ($form_id == 'comment_form') {
    if (arg(0)=='node') {
      $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));
      $subject = $node->title;
    } 
    else if (arg(0)=='comment' && arg(1)=='reply') {
      if(is_numeric(arg(3))) {
        $comment = _comment_load(arg(3));
        $subject = $comment->subject;
      }
      else {
        $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(2)));
        $subject = $node->title;
      }
    }
    if(!preg_match('/^re:/i', $subject))
      $subject = 'Re: '.$subject;

    $form['subject']['#default_value'] = $subject;
  }
}

As you can see it's a rather simple module, but it has only been tested with Drupal 4.7.4.

Copy and paste the whole text into a file named 'comment_subject.module' and place that in (a subfolder of) your modules folder.

I'll post to this thread again when I get CVS access and this module gets a proper place and download.

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ahoeben commented

A project for the module above is now available. If you have any problems with the posted code, please use the project issue tracker instead of posting here...

http://drupal.org/project/comment_subject