How to find out a node's comment status (open, closed) from node ID?

Question

Having a view of comment fields here that is embedded into another view via Views Field View module. The comment view has a contextual filter: the nid. Works quite nice.

Now I want to hide the view if comments ain't allowed (per node). Of course I have the node's ID as $argument. How can I check the comment status from that to specify the validate criteria?

Answer 1

The following code should do the trick:

$node = node_load($argument); // load the node object based on the nid
if($node->comment == COMMENT_NODE_CLOSED) {
  // comments are closed - hide the view
}

There are 3 constants that define the different comment states:

• COMMENT_NODE_HIDDEN
• COMMENT_NODE_CLOSED
• COMMENT_NODE_OPEN

For more information see the Node object reference.