Episode 2: Fields disappear

Hi. I’m working my way through the 2nd video, and my form fields have disappeared. I tried cutting and pasting your code from the folder and the same thing happens. Here’s my code:

         
<p>Thank you for participating in the public dialogue!</p>
     </div><!-- END #disclaimer -->

        {exp:comment:form}
        <p><label for="name">Name</label><br />
        <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" id="name" size="37" /></p>
        <p><label for="email">Email Address</label><br />
        <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" id="email" size="37" /></p>
        <p><label for="comment">Comment</label><br />
        <textarea name="comment" rows="8" cols="35" id="comment" />{comment}</textarea></p>
        <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
        {/exp:comment:form}
    </fieldset>              

</div> <!-- END #comment-form -->

Craig, do you have comments enabled for that particular weblog?

I think so.

Admin> Section Administration> Section Management> Edit Section Preferences> Comment Posting Preferences…

“Allow comments in this section?” Yes is selected.

I got it working… I’m not quite sure how. I disabled the require IP thing, and I changed the “Maximum number of characters allowed in comments” setting from 0 to 500. (in the Comment Posting Preferences). I also bumped up the Comment Expiration from 0 to 7.

Ah, Craig. It was most likely the IP restriction. Glad you got it working!

hey guys i get a * You are not authorized to perform this action

error when i post a comment

i changed the required ip address after some more searching and now i get this error
Unable to receive your comment at this time.

it was the anti spam filter.

sorry for all these post.

I’m having the same problem as the OP. Same code.

as soon as I put the EE comment form tags in there, the form fields disappear.

I’ve tried to disable the “require IP..”, and I’m certain comments are enabled, but no luck.

Any ideas? the page is up here:

http://www.nadaplus.com/ee/index.php/news_artic…

</div><!-- END #disclaimer -->

                         {exp:comment:form}    
                            <p><label for="name">Name</label><br />
                            <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" id="name" size="37" /></p>
                            <p><label for="email">Email Address</label><br />
                            <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" id="email" size="37" /></p>
                            <p><label for="comment">Comment</label><br />
                            <textarea name="comment" rows="8" cols="35" id="comment">{comment}</textarea></p>
                            <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
                        {/exp:comment:form}
                    </fieldset>              

            </div> <!-- END #comment-form -->

fixed

I am having exactly the same problem as Craig and JD. As soon as I delete the formset instructions and substitute the expression engine comment tags, as shown in the video, all of the entry fields on the form disappear.

Is there a step missing here? I have navigated to the Admin Section and ensured that comments were enabled (they were by default). I have also put 500 as the allowed comment length, and changed the expiration period to 7 as others suggested.

But I cannot find any field that says that IP addresses are required or not. It would be REALLY helpful if all of these steps were covered in the video - or at least in a README file - for the benefit of beginners who are trying to step through the tutorial.

BTW - another Tutorial Number 2 problem. Once you put the expression engine tags in for the weblog itself, the formatting for the photo disappears - in other words, I get the text “news article photo” but not the little photo block itself. This then causes the headline and text of the article to wrap weirdly around the “news article photo” text, since what I presume is supposed to be the photo sized block is not there to hold the space.

Hi, Lee. Sorry for the delay in responding. Were you able to work through this problem?