[wp-hackers] Comment Hook

[Mark Jaquith]

If you want to put a comment into moderation, in 1.2 or 1.2.1, you have 
to retroactively do it.  Meaning, you let the comment post, and then you 
hook in at comment_post and if you need to moderate it, just change the 
status in the database.  MooKitty's Friendly Comments plugin does that: 
http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/archives/2004/06/22/kittens-friendly-comments-10/

The problem there is that the "comment posted!" e-mail already got sent out.

Alternatively, instead of hooking in... you can have the code be 
directly executed when the plugin is included, and wrap it in a 
conditional that looks for the $_POST variables that are set when a 
comment is being posted.

Here's what MooKitty uses in her Spaminator plugin:

if ( !empty($_POST['comment']) && !empty($_POST['comment_post_ID']) && 
!is_array($_POST['comment']) ) {
// code, functions, whatever, goes here
}

Of course, you'd basically have to place the entire wp-comments-post.php 
file in the plugin to have any control over moderation or comment post.  
Basically, in WP 1.2.x, there is no way to hook in to the comment 
moderation process.  There is a hook before... but you can't affect 
anything, and there is a hook after, but by then, the e-mail has aready 
gone out and the comment has been posted.  So really, you have to either 
deal with the e-mail that is sent, or hijack the process entirely.  
Or... wait for 1.3 which, by the way, is quite stable now... I've been 
running my blog on it for months.


Ammar Ibrahim wrote:

> There's another way, I can hack the file 'wp-comments_post.php' but 
> that would make it hard for other people to use the plugin. Anyway, 
> When will 1.3 be stable?
>
> Ammar
>
> Mark Jaquith wrote:
>
>> If it's WP 1.2 or 1.2.1, you can't.  In WP 1.3, declare $approved 
>> global for the function and set $approved = 0;
>
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