How do I change the permalinks to #1, #2, #3?

Question

I would like to change the comment/forum links to something like:

TOPIC:

#1

#2

#3

Do you have any idea on how should I do this?

Answer 1

Advanced forum provides what you are looking for out of the box (a #number permalink in the upper left corner of the post) among tons of other useful features for a forum.

You could either simply use that module, or you could look at it's template files to see how it's done. The relevant code seems to be in includes/advanced_forum_preprocess_comment.inc and looks like this.

  /* Linked post number */
  if (!isset($post_number)) {
    static $post_number = 1;
  }

  $posts_per_page = variable_get('comment_default_per_page_' . $node->type, 50);

  $page_number = !empty($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 0;
  if (!$page_number) {
    $page_number = 0;
  }

  $post_number++;

  $linktext = '#' . (($page_number * $posts_per_page) + $post_number);

  // Permalink
  //  You can erase next 3 lines if you wish to use built-in Permalink.
  //  Template adjusted: $post_link -> $permalink
      $uri = entity_uri('comment', $comment);
  $uri['options'] += array('attributes' => array('class' => 'permalink', 'rel' => 'bookmark'));
  $variables['permalink'] = l($linktext, $uri['path'], $uri['options']);

Answer 2

First, if the code is in template_preprocess_comment(&$vars), $node->type needs to be $vars['node']->type. Also, there isn't the need of a comment counter per each page because the Comment module adds an ID starting with 1 for the top comment. Currently this code works correctly for me with comments on several pages.

function template_preprocess_comment(&$vars) {
  $posts_per_page = variable_get('comment_default_per_page_' . $vars['node']->type, 50);

  $page_number = !empty($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 0;
  if (!$page_number) {
    $page_number = 0;
  }

  $linktext = '#' . (($page_number * $posts_per_page) + $vars['id']);

  $vars['comment']->uri['options'] += array('attributes' => array('class' => 'permalink', 'rel' => 'bookmark'));
  $vars['permalink'] = l($linktext, $vars['comment']->uri['path'], $vars['comment']->uri['options']);
}

Answer 3

OK got it to work properly ! In you template.php file (drupal/sites/adress/themes/YOURTHEME/template.php) add:

<?php 

function YOURTHEME!_preprocess_comment(&$variables){

  /* Easy links to the comment and parent node */
  $comment = $variables['comment'];
  $node = node_load($comment->nid);
  $variables['first_post'] = $node; 

  // Set the post ID for theming / targetting
  $variables['post_id'] = "post-$comment->cid";

  /* Linked post number */
  if (!isset($post_number)) {
    static $post_number = 1;
  }

  $posts_per_page = variable_get('comment_default_per_page_' . $node->type, 50);

  $page_number = !empty($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 0;
  if (!$page_number) {
    $page_number = 0;
  }

  $post_number++;

  $linktext = '#' . (($page_number * $posts_per_page) + $post_number);

  // Permalink
  //  You can erase next 3 lines if you wish to use built-in Permalink.
  //  Template adjusted: $post_link -> $permalink
  $uri = entity_uri('comment', $comment);
  $uri['options'] += array('attributes' => array('class' => 'permalink', 'rel' => 'bookmark'));
  $variables['permalink'] = l($linktext, $uri['path'], $uri['options']);

}
?>

Answer 4

You can type in your css file something like this:

.comment .submitted .permalink{ display: none; }

and no more permalink ;)