Rating & Comment

Hi,
i understand that rating is included in the plugin.

may i know what abt comment? how can i add the comment under the rating? or i need to d/l a extension?

Inside your template folder, edit the file item.php (it creates the html of each item):
e.g.
components/com_flexicontent/templates/mytemplate/item.php

FIND the code that creates the comments: Find the template position that you have inserted the ratings field (the field name is voting) and then move the above code just after the lines
Finally alter the line: to:

hi , i installed jcomments
do i still need to put these code in?

No, the changes were just if you want the comments to appear in page in a different place (bellow ratings), otherwise make no changes and comments will appear at the bottom.

Don't forget to enable comments in FLEXIcontent's Global Configuration, and then you can toggle this setting on/off per category (in the category parameters)

On this note, how would I (1) show and (2) expand commments by default in the category view? I need all comments showing without any clicks, but am yet to find ONE commenting solution that allows it. I have category comments on, and I also have the global comments on. No comments showing at all.

Thanks!

To make it expand you could call the javascript that is on the onclick event when the page finishes loading.

For example to make open the comment submit form
Put the following in the item.php of your template

<?php
$opencomments_js = "
var box = {};
window.addEvent('domready', function(){
jcomments.showForm(".$this->item->id.",'com_flexicontent', 'comments-form-link');
});
";
$document
$document->addScriptDeclaration($opencomments_js);
?>

The comments are not displayed in category view, the setting you say is meant to be inherited by items for their item view.

Regards