Hide comments and show them using views

Question

Am using views to display the comments below my node types in drupal 7.

The view works fine but i can't find a way to hide the regular drupal comments above the form.

How do i just display the comment form and the comments using views.

Answer 1

In node.tpl

    hide($content['comments']);

This hides both the comment form and the comments.

To render the comment form alone use

    print render($content['comments']['comment_form']); 

Then you can create your view for them nice comments and display them below the form.