I'm using the 'comment permissions' module to restrict standard 'authenticated' users from commenting on a particular node type. However I do not want them to bee able to see comments on that node either.
I want to use the commenting system as tool for discussing posts internally. So admins can discuss posts by standard users. I DO want standard users to be able to comment on some other node types.
Obviously it is very important that the author never sees these comments. 'Comment permissions' doesn't have a way to handle this part so I have overridden the node.tpl.php file and only show comments if a certain role is present (see below)
My question is; how bullet proof is this method? Can anyone suggest a better way to achieve this? Obviously a change in theme would reveal comments but are there other issues I'm not thinking of?
<?php if ( (in_array('staff', $user->roles)) || (in_array('administrator', $user->roles)) ){ ?>
// show comments
<?php } ?>
