Extension:PostComment

The Postcomment extension allows users to post comments directly to discussion pages directly from a form at the bottom of each discussion page. This extension is by no means meant to be an extensive solution to discussion page problems (I'll leave that to Liquid threads), it's just a simple extension that works for smaller wikis. So far we've had over 150,000 talk page messages posted with it and our community seems to like its simplicity.

License
Copyright 2006 Travis Derouin, wikiHow

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA

Author
Travis Derouin ( travis @ wikihow.com), wikiHow

Pre-requisites
This extension was tested with Mediawiki 1.9.1 and 1.6.7.

Configuration & Installation
require_once ('extensions/PostComment/SpecialPostcomment.php'); to LocalSettings.php to:  border: 1px solid #CED1FF; padding: 5px; margin-bottom:5px }
 * Get the source via SVN
 * Add
 * Find a place in your skin where you'd like the comment form to appear and place a call to wfPostcommentForm. For example, in MonoBook.php you could change
 * Add the following CSS to your main.css stylesheet - feel free to modify:
 * 1) discussion_entry {

td.discussion_entry_date { font-size: smaller; }

td.discussion_entry_user { font-weight: bold; }

td.discussion_entry_comment { }

Bugs and enhancements
Bugs or feature requests can be sent to the author at travis @ wikihow.com.

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