function CommentController::getReplyForm

Same name in other branches
  1. 9 core/modules/comment/src/Controller/CommentController.php \Drupal\comment\Controller\CommentController::getReplyForm()
  2. 8.9.x core/modules/comment/src/Controller/CommentController.php \Drupal\comment\Controller\CommentController::getReplyForm()
  3. 10 core/modules/comment/src/Controller/CommentController.php \Drupal\comment\Controller\CommentController::getReplyForm()

Form constructor for the comment reply form.

There are several cases that have to be handled, including:

  • replies to comments
  • replies to entities

Parameters

\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request: The current request object.

\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity: The entity this comment belongs to.

string $field_name: The field_name to which the comment belongs.

int $pid: (optional) Some comments are replies to other comments. In those cases, $pid is the parent comment's comment ID. Defaults to NULL.

Return value

array|\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse An associative array containing:

  • An array for rendering the entity or parent comment.

    • comment_entity: If the comment is a reply to the entity.
    • comment_parent: If the comment is a reply to another comment.
  • comment_form: The comment form as a renderable array.

Throws

\Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException

1 string reference to 'CommentController::getReplyForm'
comment.routing.yml in core/modules/comment/comment.routing.yml
core/modules/comment/comment.routing.yml

File

core/modules/comment/src/Controller/CommentController.php, line 214

Class

CommentController
Controller for the comment entity.

Namespace

Drupal\comment\Controller

Code

public function getReplyForm(Request $request, EntityInterface $entity, $field_name, $pid = NULL) {
    $account = $this->currentUser();
    $build = [];
    // The user is not just previewing a comment.
    if ($request->request
        ->get('op') != $this->t('Preview')) {
        // $pid indicates that this is a reply to a comment.
        if ($pid) {
            // Load the parent comment.
            $comment = $this->entityTypeManager()
                ->getStorage('comment')
                ->load($pid);
            // Display the parent comment.
            $build['comment_parent'] = $this->entityTypeManager()
                ->getViewBuilder('comment')
                ->view($comment);
        }
        elseif ($entity->access('view', $account)) {
            // We make sure the field value isn't set so we don't end up with a
            // redirect loop.
            $entity = clone $entity;
            $entity->{$field_name}->status = CommentItemInterface::HIDDEN;
            // Render array of the entity full view mode.
            $build['commented_entity'] = $this->entityTypeManager()
                ->getViewBuilder($entity->getEntityTypeId())
                ->view($entity, 'full');
            unset($build['commented_entity']['#cache']);
        }
    }
    else {
        $build['#title'] = $this->t('Preview comment');
    }
    // Show the actual reply box.
    $comment = $this->entityTypeManager()
        ->getStorage('comment')
        ->create([
        'entity_id' => $entity->id(),
        'pid' => $pid,
        'entity_type' => $entity->getEntityTypeId(),
        'field_name' => $field_name,
    ]);
    $build['comment_form'] = $this->entityFormBuilder()
        ->getForm($comment);
    return $build;
}

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