Comment Author Ranks – Close to being done, need help!

Oh let me add. The Comment Total is already showing as Experience in that page. But that is because I am using a different code from the Plugin mentioned.

The code to show the total of Posts made by Guests or Registered, based on their NAME, is the following (and works):

a function for function.php

function commentCount() {
    global $wpdb;
    $count = $wpdb->get_var('SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM ' . $wpdb->comments. ' WHERE comment_author = "' . get_comment_author() . '"');
    echo $count . '';
}

Where I changed from email, for a search based on comment author name, as my guests use the same name with bogus emails.

AND

<?php commentCount(); ?>

This goes in any page, to show the content of each individual comment poster. Works perfect! I always have 700+ Posts, and guests are continuously increasing their posts as they post comments… They don’t even need to register.

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@demolishman : you made a big salad mixing everything up.

if i under stand correctly what you are trying to achieve then you need to understand that it counts comments as well as posts (posting a comment is called a comment).

So try this:

First configure the plugin to count only comments (it looks like its counting both comments and posts).

then in your code change your conditional check from:
if ($comment->user_id) {

to

if ($comment->user_id > 0) {

since $comment->user_id is always set to 0 (zero) if there is no user id.

and as for setting up the ranks, its not the number of posts or comments its the number of points.

so its actually
Rank 1 => Level 1 -> over 1 point
Rank 5 => Level 5 -> over 50 point
Rank 50 => Level 50 -> over 500 point

Thanks for looking into! I greatly appreciate!
I only know the basics of Php. Am trying your advice!

It didnt work, the first comment I done, shows nothing (echos no value).

The second post, shows the title called Two, but that is for having only 2 points. I should be rank called FIVE, for having over 500 points.

(Ps I renamed the ranks to words, for easy understanding of whats wrong).

<?php
$user = "";
if ($comment->user_id > 0) {
$user=get_userdata($comment->user_id);

	$baur_plugin = new baur_Plugin();
	$user_rank = $baur_plugin->ba_get_user_points($user->ID);
	echo "". $user_rank['title'];

}
else {
	echo "NA";
}

?>

This is the new code. This code is inside the loop inside the comments.php

Ranks are as follows

one – 1 points
two – 50 points
tree – 100 points

but when echoing a rank title, I get the number 2 (actual number) instead of the rank “tree”.

<?php
if ($comment->user_id > 0) {
$user=get_userdata($comment->user_id);

	$baur_plugin = new baur_Plugin();
	$user_rank = $baur_plugin->ba_get_user_points($comment->user_id);
	echo $user_rank['title'];

}
else {
	echo "NA";
}

?>

Also tried the above, no different results.

1- First comment comes empty.
2- Second comment does not show rank title, instead show a random number.

I’m confused , you say

the first comment I done, shows nothing (echos no value).
The second post, shows the title called Two,…

are you counting comments or posts?
also can you send a screenshot of your options panel?

and maybe a pastie or pastbin of your whole code?

i’ll be able to help you even more.

I am getting somewhere..

I used this code to see what Im getting and this is waht I got:

<?php
	echo "". $user_rank['title'];
	echo "". $user_rank['points'];
?>

Post by Admin = title is 1 and pounts is 1.
Post by subscriber = title is 5 and points is 5.

So, Title and Points are the same number in that variable… So, I dont know what I done, but the plugin seems to have broken.

I don’t know how to fix this, I tried everything.

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Thanks for the help!

It finally works! I re-installed the newly downloaded plugin, and got to retrieve the Rank and Points.

Thanks Bainternet.

Glad it worked out for you!