Here's an easy way to thank your commenters: an auto plug! It will appear underneath your article.

Open the inc folder and find the functions.inc.php page. Insert this code at the end of the document, before the last ?>.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Function: Lists all commenters with mail or url when available function list_commenters($news, $linebreak, $separator) { $alle_comments = file("./data/comments.txt"); $i=0; foreach($alle_comments as $comments_line) { $comments_line = trim($comments_line); $comments_line_arr = explode("|>|", $comments_line); if($news == $comments_line_arr[0]) { $individual_comment = explode("||", $comments_line_arr[1]); foreach ($individual_comment as $single_comment) { $single_comment_arr = explode("|", $single_comment); if (($single_comment_arr[0] != "") && (!stristr($output, $single_comment_arr[1]))) { $i++; if($single_comment_arr[2] != "none") { if( preg_match("/^[\.A-z0-9_\-]+[@][A-z0-9_\-]+([.][A-z0-9_\-]+)+[A-z]{1,4}$/", $single_comment_arr[2])){ $url_target = "";$mail_or_url = "mailto:"; } else { $url_target = "target=\"_blank\""; $mail_or_url = ""; if(substr($single_comment_arr[2],0,3) == "www") $mail_or_url = "http://"; } $output .= "<a $url_target href=\"$mail_or_url".stripslashes($single_comment_arr[2])."\">".stripslashes($single_comment_arr[1])."</a>".$separator; } else $output .= $single_comment_arr[1].$separator; if (fmod($i, $linebreak)==0) $output .= "<br />"; } } } } if (fmod($i, $linebreak)=="0") $output = substr($output, 0, -(strlen($separator)+6)); else $output = substr($output, 0, -strlen($separator)); return $output; }

Now, open shows.inc.php.

Find this code by pressing CTRL + F.

$output = str_replace("{title}", $news_arr[2], $template_full);

Add this code right below that:

if(CountComments($news_arr[0], $archive) > 0){ $output = str_replace('[commenters-header]', '', $output); $output = str_replace('[/commenters-header]', '', $output); $output = preg_replace("#\{commenters:(.*):(.*)\}#ie", "list_commenters('".$news_arr[0]."', '\\1', '\\2')", $output); } else $output = preg_replace("#\[commenters-header\](.*?)\[/commenters-header\]#i", "", $output);

On the same page, find this code:

$output = $template_active;

Add this code right below that.

if(CountComments($news_arr[0], $archive) > 0){ $output = str_replace('[commenters-header]', '', $output); $output = str_replace('[/commenters-header]', '', $output); $output = preg_replace("#\{commenters:(.*):(.*)\}#ie", "list_commenters('".$news_arr[0]."', '\\1', '\\2')", $output); } else $output = preg_replace("#\[commenters-header\](.*?)\[/commenters-header\]#i", "", $output);

Log into CuteNews (ex: yoursite.com/cutenews/index.php). Go to Options >> Edit Templates >> Active News and Full Story. Add this code in your template:

[commenters-header]{commenters:5: - }[/commenters-header]

You can change the number 5 to the number of commenters you want listed per line. You can change the dash - to the symbol you want to appear between commenters' names.

For example, that would look something like this:

Alexa - Brandon - Carly - David - Elena
Francesca - Genelle - Haylee - Jess - Kayla

Now, some people will get an error message saying that the comments.txt file could not be found. In that case, change this code:

$alle_comments = file("./data/comments.txt");

To this one:

$alle_comments = file("cutenews/data/comments.txt");