I'm currently working with custom comment meta, and I have some custom additional field such as rating etc, when user write a comment ( not comment reply ) I want to show the rating field, but when it's on reply comment state I want to remove this field.
Is there a build in conditional function to check whether it's in a reply state or not? or any other way to achieve what I want?
Check for the comment_parent:
if( '0' != $comment->comment_parent ){
// this is a reply
}
comment_form displays the form, I assume you want to customize comments, and not the form? Check for wp_list_comments to find out what callback function is used to display comments, e.g. in twentytwelve the callback is twentytwelve_comment, which is located in functions.php. Edit the callback function to incorporate the rating data, e.g. <?php if ( '0' == $comment->comment_parent ) : ?>RATING STUFF GOES HERE<?php endif; ?>
– diggy
Jan 16 '13 at 0:30
I realize this question is quite old, but I just solved this problem today with a JQuery-based approach.
jQuery( function() {
jQuery("#commentform").attr("data-parsly-validate", " ");
jQuery("#commentform").parsley();
jQuery(".comment-meta-header .comment-reply-link").click(function(){
jQuery("#commentform .comment-form-area, #commentform .comment-form-type").hide();
jQuery("#starling-comment-area, #starling-comment-type").removeAttr("required");
});
jQuery("#cancel-comment-reply-link").click(function(){
jQuery("#commentform .comment-form-area, #commentform .comment-form-type").show();
jQuery("#starling-comment-area, #starling-comment-type").attr("required", " ");
});
});
Basically I have click handlers for when the "Reply" or "Cancel" links are clicked, and I handle form validation with Javascript (using Parsley, in this case).
For server-side validation you can use diggy's solution.
