Add a comment preview and delete link in the Admin section of sNews

I got a recent request to do a simple mod to put a "delete" link beside the comment edit link in the Admin section of sNews, so one can easily delete an obvious spam comment without clicking edit, then deleting. Seemed like a good idea, so I've added a few extra bits and have it running on my site as well, so I might as well offer it up to the community too. Here's a preview;

sNews comment delete

Within snews.php, find the function administration(), and add the following highlighted code in the comment SQL query;

$query_comm = 'SELECT id,articleid,name,comment FROM '._PRE.'comments'.' WHERE approved != \'True\'';

Now find the code that outputs the unapproved comments;

echo '<p>'.$r['name'].' (<strong>'.$articleTITLE.'</strong>) '.l('divider').'
<a href="'._SITE.'?action=editcomment&amp;commentid='.$r['id'].'">'.l('edit').'</a></p>';

Now replace that code with this block;

if (strlen($r['comment']) > '60') {
    $preview = substr($r['comment'],0,60).'...';
} else {
    $preview = $r['comment'];
}
echo '<p>'.$r['name'].' (<strong>'.$articleTITLE.'</strong>) '.l('divider').' <a href="'._SITE.'?action=editcomment&amp;commentid='.$r['id'].'">'.l('edit').'</a> <a href="'._SITE.'?action=process&amp;task=deletecomment&amp;commentid='.$r['id'].'" title="'.l('delete').' '.l('comment').'" onclick="return pop()">'.l('delete').'</a><br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;<span class="comment_preview">"'.$preview.'"</span></p>';

And the style for the comment preview;

.comment_preview {
font-size: .9em;
font-style: italic;
color: #555;
}

That's it. Very basic. It still redirects you to the article related to the comment, but to change that would require quite a bit more hacking on other functions.

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mosh's Avatar

mosh

hey matt
very nice mod,
it is a must for snews comment system.

thank you and
awesome day

Patric's Avatar

Patric

Mhm, now where the feck can I find and being able to change "Comment preview:" ?? Have styled that label, but I can't get rid of the semicolon...

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Patric

YES, I'm such an dumba**, thanks Matt.

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Fred K

Thanks for this one Matt. Only wish I'd seen it earlier - it really is a necessity for sNews.




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