[wp-hackers] button patch for comment post section

[David House]

On 07/10/05, Owen Winkler <ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
> Add a new function comment_error_message().  By default, this function
> echoes a hidden form field, like:
>
> <input type="hidden" name="commenterrors" value="1" />

Or name="show_comment_errors" or something like that.

> If this field is present when the comment is submitted, then when an
> error occurs, it reloads the comment page in a way (by passing an
> additional "commenterr=1" query value?) that causes
> comment_error_message() to output an error in addition to the hidden field.

We'd have to pass the error through the query string anyway, so
comment_error_message() could just do get_query_var('comment_error'),
echo it if it exists, or output the hidden input if not.

> Yeah, that's convoluted.

Not as much as you might think. From a theme designer's point of view,
all that's required is adding a comment_error_message() function to
their comment form. The only inelegance comes from the hidden input
and the forking that would be necessary in wp-comments-post.php to
check whether the hidden input was there, both of which are required
for backward compatability.

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