How should I get the original comment while processing the reply

Question

I'm working on a comments section for my template. And I need to do something like this:

Comment:
-This was my original comment
And this is my reply to the original comment.


So I wanna cite the original comment inside the comment that was a reply to the original comment. I var_dumped through everything that get_the_comment(); returns and failed to find any reference to the initial comment whatsoever.

Can you please assist me with that? Cheers!

Answer 1

The comment/reply ID is a value actually sent by the form. You are able to retrieve it via $_GET:

// Default is "no reply" eq. 0
$id = 0;
// Handle replies
if ( isset( $_GET['replytocom'] ) )
{
    $id = filter_var(
        $_GET['replytocom'],
        FILTER_VALIDATE_INT,
        # or:
        # FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT
        array(
            'options' => array(
                'min_range' => 1,
            ),
            # @link http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.flags.php
            # 'flags'   => '',
        )
    );
    if ( FALSE === $id )
        break;

    $id = absint( $_GET['replytocom'] )
}

Then you have access to the reply-$id.

Answer 2

Ok my bad!

I've looked through what get_comments(); returns and I found comment_parent field which contains the ID of the initial comment. So in order to add cite of the comment you wanna reply to you need to do the following:

<?php
    $pid = get_the_id();            
    $comments = get_comments('post_id='.$pid);

    foreach ( $comments as $comment ) {         
        $cpid = $comment->comment_parent; // Getting the ID of the parent comment
        $comment_parent = get_comment( $cpid );

        // Do comment rendering here
        ...
    }
?>

Sorry for bothering everyone. I hope this would help somebody in the future. Cheers!