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I am trying to copy the "thanked"-function seen in vBulletin forums. Here the author of a topic can thank the author of a comment and the number of comments a person have been thanked for is shown in the author pane.

I have used the Flag module to allow a comment-specific flag but I can't figure out how to display the count number of thanks for each user. I have tried to create a view and display it with views_embed_view but i don't know how to choose count for the specific author? I have also thought of using entityfieldquery but I don't think it can see which comments that are flagged?

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  • Query the flag_counts table directly?
    – Felix Eve
    Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 16:34
  • I am not shure how to do that. I have tried with db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM flagging WHERE uid = :uid AND fid = 2", array(':uid' => $uid))->fetchField()
    – Morten
    Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 20:57
  • I haven't actually used the module so I'm not sure what the exact query you would need is but I think your on the right track...
    – Felix Eve
    Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 9:02

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Ok so I found a solution although I am not sure it is the best one. The problem was that the databases for the flag module only stores the comment id (when using a comment flag) and not the id of the authoring user. I am implementing the code in a PHP snippet in author pane template where the comment object isn't available. My solution was to do two queries:

$cid_array = db_query("SELECT cid FROM comment WHERE uid = :user", array(':user' => $account->uid))->fetchCol();
$thank_count = db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM flagging WHERE entity_id IN (:cid) AND fid = 2", array(':cid' => $cid_array))->fetchField();

Thanks to Felix Eve for supportive comments

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