Okay so I’ve found another commentator system which also seems suitable. The system is one off tutorialzine ->http://tutorialzine.com/2010/06/simple-ajax-commenting-system/ (I’m aware it’s an ajax system but I’m having issues with the php file)
I’ve uploaded the files and everything is setup correctly but I still seem to get an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c06/h02/mnt/91114/domains/nahgammin.com/html/demo/comment.class.php on line 6
If I remove this line the system shows up correctly but obviously doesn’t function the same way. I will past the php code below and the message suggests an error on line 6 which I can’t find anything wrong with…
Any help is much appreciated!
<?php
class Comment
{
[b]private $data = array(); <------ line 6 [/b]
public function __construct($row)
{
/*
/ The constructor
*/
$this->data = $row;
}
public function markup()
{
/*
/ This method outputs the XHTML markup of the comment
*/
// Setting up an alias, so we don't have to write $this->data every time:
$d = &$this->data;
$link_open = '';
$link_close = '';
if($d['url']){
// If the person has entered a URL when adding a comment,
// define opening and closing hyperlink tags
$link_open = '
';
$link_close = '';
}
// Converting the time to a UNIX timestamp:
$d['dt'] = strtotime($d['dt']);
// Needed for the default gravatar image:
$url = 'http://'.dirname($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]).'/img/default_avatar.gif';
return '
'.$link_open.'
.'?size=50&default='.urlencode(%24url).')
'.$link_close.'
'.$link_open.$d['name'].$link_close.'
'.date('d M Y',$d['dt']).'
'.$d['body'].'
';
}
public static function validate(&$arr)
{
/*
/ This method is used to validate the data sent via AJAX.
/
/ It return true/false depending on whether the data is valid, and populates
/ the $arr array passed as a paremter (notice the ampersand above) with
/ either the valid input data, or the error messages.
*/
$errors = array();
$data = array();
// Using the filter_input function introduced in PHP 5.2.0
if(!($data['email'] = filter_input(INPUT_POST,'email',FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)))
{
$errors['email'] = 'Please enter a valid Email.';
}
if(!($data['url'] = filter_input(INPUT_POST,'url',FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)))
{
// If the URL field was not populated with a valid URL,
// act as if no URL was entered at all:
$url = '';
}
// Using the filter with a custom callback function:
if(!($data['body'] = filter_input(INPUT_POST,'body',FILTER_CALLBACK,array('options'=>'Comment::validate_text'))))
{
$errors['body'] = 'Please enter a comment body.';
}
if(!($data['name'] = filter_input(INPUT_POST,'name',FILTER_CALLBACK,array('options'=>'Comment::validate_text'))))
{
$errors['name'] = 'Please enter a name.';
}
if(!empty($errors)){
// If there are errors, copy the $errors array to $arr:
$arr = $errors;
return false;
}
// If the data is valid, sanitize all the data and copy it to $arr:
foreach($data as $k=>$v){
$arr[$k] = mysql_real_escape_string($v);
}
// Ensure that the email is lower case:
$arr['email'] = strtolower(trim($arr['email']));
return true;
}
private static function validate_text($str)
{
/*
/ This method is used internally as a FILTER_CALLBACK
*/
if(mb_strlen($str,'utf8')<1)
return false;
// Encode all html special characters (<, >, ", & .. etc) and convert
// the new line characters to
tags:
$str = nl2br(htmlspecialchars($str));
// Remove the new line characters that are left
$str = str_replace(array(chr(10),chr(13)),'',$str);
return $str;
}
}
?>
