This is an alternative PHP backend for the the Commento comments engine.
Commento is a lightweight, open source, tracking-free comment engine alternative to Disqus written in Go and Javascript.
This PHP backend is a simple PHP implementation that can be installed on any "modern" shared hosting and stores the comments in Json files. On the client side, it uses the Commento Javascript libraries.
- Threaded comments on any website.
- Store the comments on your own server.
- tested with PHP 7.0+ and PHP 5.6+ (but might work with PHP 5.4+)
-
Get the latest php-Commento.tar released package and unpack it.
-
Create a
data/directory and set it in theCOMMENTO_DATA_PATHconstant in theindex.phpfile (by default,data/will be used). -
Install
PHP-Commentoby calling theinstallroute. -
Add PHP-Commento to your HTML page(s):
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <script src="http://www.the-url-with.your/php-commento/js/commento.js"></script> </head> <body> <div class="content"> <p>... Your content...</p> </div> <div id="commento"> <!-- Commento will populate this div with comments --> </div> <script> Commento.init({ serverUrl: "http://www.the-url-with.your/php-commento" }) </script> <body> </html>
- Create a directory for PHP-Commento (
php-commento/). - Copy the <sample/index.php> file and place it in the
php-commento/directory. - Add the <sample/htaccess> file to the same directory and rename it to
.htaccess. - Get the <src/commento.php> file and place it somewhere it can be loaded from the
index.phpfile. - Create a
data/directory and set it in theCOMMENTO_DATA_PATHconstant. (by default,data/will be used). - Install
PHP-Commentoby callinginstallon the path containing (https://your-path.com/php-commento/install). - Put in the
js/directory the minified Javascript files from the Commento project: - Put in the
css/directory the minified CSS files from the Commento project: - Add PHP-Commento to your HTML page(s).
If needed, you can minify the Javascript and CSS and Javascript with minifier.org.
The src/ directory contains the commento.php file with the PHP-Commento engine.
The sample/ directory contains
data/url.json
data/comments/
data/comments/*.json
The Comment routes:
/
- not implemented yet
- sets w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
/assets
- not implemented
/create
- post, form:
- url: string, where the comment is coming from
- comment: string, the comment
- name: string, the name
- parent: int, -1 if none
- reply, json:
- {
"success":true,
"message":"Comment successfully created"
}
/get
- post, form:
- string url: where the comment is coming from
- reply, json:
{
"success":true,
"message":"",
"comments":
[
{
"id":1,
"url":"http://ww.impagina.org/commento/commento.html",
"comment":"this is a test",
"name":"ale",
"timestamp":"2017-05-12T08:32:04.333415146+02:00",
"parent":-1
}
]
}
The routes are defined in http.go:GetCommentsHandler
Additional PHP-Commento routes:
/install