Added a show comment form button. Add comment form is revealed when the button is clicked. Used jQuery UI Effect to .highlight() to bring attention to newly added comments. Also added a named anchor to our block library to allow direct linking/scrolling to those blocks on the page.

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/modules/comment/helpers/comment_theme.php b/modules/comment/helpers/comment_theme.php
index 3861bae0..b7e64e38 100644
--- a/modules/comment/helpers/comment_theme.php
+++ b/modules/comment/helpers/comment_theme.php
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class comment_theme_Core {
     $block = new Block;
     $block->css_id = "gComments";
     $block->title = t("Comments");
+    $block->anchor = t("comments");
 
     $view = new View("comments.html");
     $view->comments = ORM::factory("comment")
diff --git a/modules/comment/js/comment.js b/modules/comment/js/comment.js
index b000a3a2..bb486bbd 100644
--- a/modules/comment/js/comment.js
+++ b/modules/comment/js/comment.js
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ function ajaxify_comment_form() {
       if (data.result == "success") {
         $.get(data.resource, function(data, textStatus) {
           $("#gComments .gBlockContent ul:first").append("<li>"+data+"</li>");
-          $("#gComments .gBlockContent ul:first li:last").hide().slideDown();
+          $("#gComments .gBlockContent ul:first li:last").effect("highlight", {color: "#cfc"}, 8000);
+          $("#gAddCommentForm").hide(2000);
         });
       }
     }
   });
-};
+}
diff --git a/modules/comment/views/comments.html.php b/modules/comment/views/comments.html.php
index ec7530c4..b407930e 100644
--- a/modules/comment/views/comments.html.php
+++ b/modules/comment/views/comments.html.php
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <?php defined("SYSPATH") or die("No direct script access.") ?>
-<a name="comments"></a>
 <ul id="gComments">
   <? foreach ($comments as $comment): ?>
   <li id="gComment-<?= $comment->id ?>">
@@ -21,3 +20,4 @@
   </li>
   <? endforeach ?>
 </ul>
+<a name="add_comment_form"></a>