Comment Entries

The Comment Entries Tag enables you to show the user-submitted comments associated with your entries.

note

Coilpack provides a slightly different experience for the comment entries tag when used in a Twig, Blade or GraphQL context. Pagination is handled differently and some parameters may behave differently. See the ExpressionEngine Documentation for additional information on the Comment Entries Tag

Native

{exp:comment:entries}
    {comment}
{/exp:comment:entries}

Twig

{% for entry in exp.comment.entries %}
    {{ entry.comment }}
{% endfor %}

Blade

@foreach($exp->comment->entries as $entry)
    {{ $entry->comment }}
@endforeach

GraphQL

{
    exp_comment_entries {
        data {
            comment
        }
    }
}

Parameters

The examples below are how the Comment Entries tag would look using every parameter. Please note that this is only for illustration purposes as some of these parameters would never be used together to achieve a meaningful result.

Native

{exp:comment:entries
    author_id="5"
    channel="channel1|channel2"
    comment_id="22"
    dynamic="yes"
    entry_id="not 45|534|807"
    entry_status="Featured"
    limit="30"
    orderby="date"
    site="1"
    sort="asc"
    status="Closed"
    url_title="my_wedding"
}
    {comment}
{/exp:comment:entries}

Twig

{% for entry in exp.comment.entries({
    author_id: "5",
    channel: "channel1|channel2",
    comment_id: "22",
    dynamic: true,
    entry_id: "not 45|534|807",
    entry_status: "Featured",
    limit: "30",
    orderby: "date",
    site: "1",
    sort: "asc",
    status: "Closed",
    url_title: "my_wedding"
}) %}
    {{ entry.comment }}
{% endfor %}

Blade

@foreach($exp->comment->entries([
    "author_id" => "5",
    "channel" => "channel1|channel2",
    "comment_id" => "22",
    "dynamic" => true,
    "entry_id" => "not 45|534|807",
    "entry_status" => "Featured",
    "limit" => "30",
    "orderby" => "date",
    "site" => "1",
    "sort" => "asc",
    "status" => "Closed",
    "url_title" => "my_wedding"
]) as $entry)
    {{ $entry->comment }}
@endforeach

GraphQL

{
    exp_comment_entries(
        author_id: "5",
        channel: "channel1|channel2",
        comment_id: "22",
        dynamic: true,
        entry_id: "not 45|534|807",
        entry_status: "Featured",
        limit: "30",
        orderby: "date",
        site: "1",
        sort: "asc",
        status: "Closed",
        url_title: "my_wedding"
    ) {
        comment
    }
}

Author ID

The author_id parameter will limit the returned entries to the specified Member ID

author_id: 3

Channel

Choose which channel to show the entries (will show all channels if no channel is specified).

channel: "blog"

Additionally, you can use the pipe character to separate multiple channels:

channel: "channel1|channel2|channel3"

Or you can add the word "not" (with a space after it) to exclude channels:

channel: "not channel1|channel2|channel3"

Comment ID

You can hard code the comment entries tag to show specific comments. As with the `entry_id`` parameter, you may also specify multiple comments by separating them with the pipe character.

comment_id: "22"

Dynamic

When enabled the channel entries tag will select an entry dynamically based on what is in the URL. The native ExpressionEngine Channel Entries tag has dynamic=true by default, however Coilpack operates differently and uses dynamic: false as a default.

If you want to list entries in a "sidebar" on your site and have them always be the same ones regardless of which page on your site you visit (main page, archives, comments, etc.) then you will want to use the default dynamic: false parameter.

dynamic: true

Entry ID

You can hard code the channel tag to show a specific channel entry.

entry_id: "147"

You may also specify multiple entries by separating them with the pipe character:

entry_id: "13|42|147"

Or use "not" to exclude entries::

entry_id: "not 45|534|807"

Entry Status

Restrict comments to those belonging to entries with a specified status.

entry_status: "Featured"

Limit

This parameter limits the number of entries on any given page. The limit will default to all entries if a value is not specified.

limit: 5

Orderby

The orderby parameter sets the display order of the entries.

orderby: "title"

Site

The site parameter restricts the entries to your specified site_id.

site: "1"

Sort

The sort order can be ascending or descending. The order will default to “descending” if nothing is specified.

Status

Restrict to entries with a particular status

status: "Closed"

URL Title

This parameter limits the query by an entry’s url_title. You can use the pipe character to query by multiple url_titles:

url_title: "my_wedding|my_honeymoon|my_kids"

Or you can add "not" to exclude url_titles:

url_title: "not my_in_laws"