Unobtrusive, self-hosted comments function to put onto existing web pages
- by Pekka
I am building a new site which will consist of a mix of dynamic and static pages.
I would like to add commenting functionality to those pages with as little work as possible. I'm curious as to whether such a solution exists in PHP.
The ideal set of features would be:
Completely independent from the surrounding page / site: PHP code gets dropped into page, a page ID is added, done.
Simple "write a comment" form
Comments for each page are displayed using a PHP function
Nice, clean output of <ul><li>.... that can be styled by the surrounding site
Optional Captcha
Optional Gravatar sensitivity
Minimalistic administration area to moderate/delete comments, no ACL, can protect it using .htaccess
The ideal integreation would be like this:
<?php show_comments("my_page_name"); ?>
this would 1. display a form to add a new comment that gets automatically associtated with my_page_name; and 2. display all comments that were made through this form using this ID.
Does anybody know a solution like this?
Bounty
I am setting up a bounty because while there were some good suggestions, they all point to external services. I'm really curious to see whether there isn't anything self-hosted around.
If this doesn't exist yet, it sure would be great to see as an Open Source project.
