Only show comments for registered users

[Gert-Paul]

I use Coppermine in a Joomla based community website. Most of the pictures are not visible for the public, but some albums we want to show. For these pictures we don't want that not registered users can read the comments. In the permission settings there is something about not letting the user post comments, but I couldn't find something about not viewing them.

Is there a possibility to solved this without making a hack, or is hacking the core code the only way of solving this problem?

[Nibbler]

You can modify it via the theme system, which is preferable to modifying core code. Look for theme_html_comments() function in the sample theme's theme.php, copy the entire function into the theme.php of the theme you are using, and add

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if (!USER_ID) return '';


in a new line near the top of the function.

[Gert-Paul]

Thanks. This solved it. I think this can be marked as solved.

[Nibbler]

Great, thanks for returning and resolving your thread.