Get Comments: Direct link to specific comment + post title

Question

I'm pretty sure that this can be solved quite easy, but for some reason I just can't get it to work.

My current code looks like this:

<?php   $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5'); ?>
<ul id="recent_comments">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
<li><p><strong><?php
        $title = get_the_title($comment->post_ID);
        echo get_avatar( $comment, '45' );
echo strip_tags($comment->comment_author); ?></strong>&nbsp;commented on <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($comment->post_ID); ?>" rel="external nofollow" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <?php echo $title; ?></a>: <?php echo wp_html_excerpt( $comment->comment_content, 45 ); ?> (...)</p></li>
<?php }  ?>
</ul>

It works fine, but it only displays the post title and a link to it. I'd like to have the post title displayed, but have it linked directly to the specific comment.

I suppose you'd use something like that:

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($comment->ID); ?>#comment-<?php echo $comment->comment_ID; ?>" title="on <?php echo $comment->post_title; ?>"></a>

I tried to implement this into the code above somehow. It works, but it suddenly shows the title of a post where the comment doesn't belong to.

Anybody knows how to fix this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

Instead of $comment->post_ID use $comment->comment_post_ID. Your code will look like following:

<?php   $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5'); ?>
<ul id="recent_comments">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
<li><p><strong><?php
        $title = get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID);
        echo get_avatar( $comment, '45' );
echo strip_tags($comment->comment_author); ?></strong>&nbsp;commented on <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID); ?>" rel="external nofollow" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <?php echo $title; ?></a>: <?php echo wp_html_excerpt( $comment->comment_content, 45 ); ?> (...)</p></li>
<?php }  ?>
</ul>

You were doing right about adding comment's div id at the end of URL for creating individual comment links. You need to add #comment-<?php echo $comment->comment_ID; ?> at the end of post permalink.

Here is how the anchor tag should look like.

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID); ?>#comment-<?php echo $comment->comment_ID; ?>" rel="external nofollow" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <?php echo $title; ?></a>

Answer 2

You should probably use this: get_comment_link()... and do something like this in your href value:

<?php echo get_comment_link($comment->comment_ID); ?>

Because if you use pagination for your comments, this can automatically determine the page the comment is in as well.