1 My `numcomments` Git branch adds a `NUMCOMMENTS` `TMPL_VAR`, which is
2 useful to add to the `forumpage.tmpl` template to emulate (the nice
3 bits of) a more usual webforum.
5 Please review... and pull :)
9 > How is having this variable for showing a count of the comments
10 > better (or more forum-ish) than the COMMENTSLINK variable which
11 > includes a count and a link to the comments, and is already displayed
14 > `num_comments` will never return undef.
16 > I see no need to add a second pagetemplate hook.
17 > The existing one can be added to. Probably inside its `if ($shown)`
20 > It may also be a good idea to either combine the calls to `num_comments`
21 > used for this and for the commentslink,
22 > or to memoize it. I'm thinking generally memoizing it may be a good idea
23 > since the comments for a page will typically be counted twice when it's