Comments for Changing Comment Date/Time Stamp

Changing Comment Date/Time Stamp

2009-06-30T13:45:41Z

Hi,

One frustrating thing about comments, is that when you make a reply to one as the Admin, your comment just appears in the flow of comments ordered by date/time stamp.

But I would like some of my Admin comments to appear right after specific comments.

In the MT web interface, there's no ability to change the date/time stamp.

I edited the HTML for the thread, where the comment appears and moved the source for the comment around. Is this the only/best way??? Or is there some other way?

Thanks in advance for your replies...

Paul

Comment from Mike T on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T15:12:36Z

If you want to actually create a relationship between comments, then the best way is to use comment threading:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/mt42/threading.html

If you want to just trick the admin console using dates, then there is no good way to do that short of editing the database. If you want threading in the admin console, then you'd need to file a feature request.

Comment from Paul Trunfio on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T15:15:05Z

Thanks Mike. I have been searching, but cannot find the path to the comment database.

Comment from Mike T on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T16:17:14Z

It's the table mt_comments in your database.

Comment from Paul Trunfio on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T16:47:54Z

Sorry, I'm so dense. I'm looking for how to find the physical Unix path where this database is and cannot seem to find it.

Comment from Mike T on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T17:41:19Z

You need to log into the database to make those changes. If you don't know how to do that, and/or don't know SQL, then I would advise you to read up on all of that before you even think about proceeding.