Title: comment form challenge?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# comment form challenge?

 *  [shatterjack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shatterjack/)
 * (@shatterjack)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-challenge/)
 * I need to make a new comment form to allow comments to be submitted from the 
   main page, and inserted into the database. I don’t have a standard loop, which
   complicates things. As it stands, I have the various forms appearing after each
   post on the main page, but when I click submit, it just goes to a blank screen,
   trying to insert into wp-comments-post.php I assume. Here is my index.php, look
   at the form section I pulled from a typical comments.php file:
 *     ```
       <?php
       get_header ();
       ?>
   
       <div id="box">
   
       <?php
   
       $qry =  "SELECT u.id, user_nicename, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_type, post_excerpt, comment_content, comment_author, comment_approved, comment_count, wp_posts.ID as post_id
                FROM wp_posts
                INNER JOIN wp_users AS u ON post_author = u.id
                LEFT JOIN wp_comments ON wp_posts.ID = comment_post_ID
                WHERE post_type='post'
                ORDER BY user_nicename ASC, post_date DESC";
   
       $res = mysql_query($qry);
   
       if ($res) {
   
           while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
              $author[$row['user_nicename']][]=$row;
           }
   
           foreach($author as $k => $v) {
               $orderbydate[$v[0]['post_date']][$k] = $v;
           }
           krsort($orderbydate);
           foreach ($orderbydate as $k => $v) {
               ksort($orderbydate[$k], SORT_STRING);
           }
       }
   
       $divIds = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine');
       $i = 0;
   
       foreach ($orderbydate as $date => $authors) {
           foreach ($authors as $author=> $posts) {
   
                 echo '<div id="'.$divIds[$i++].'">';
                      if($author=="tony") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tonyname.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="hippie") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hippiename.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="eriku") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/erikuname.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="ben") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/benname.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="hingyi") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hingyiname.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="chris") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/chrisname.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="gabe") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/gabename.jpg">';
                      }
                      elseif($author=="bender") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/bendername.jpg">';
                      }
                       elseif($author=="jake") {
                           echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/jakename.jpg">';
                      }
   
                   $lastPost = null;
                        foreach($posts as $post) {                              
   
                            if ($lastPost != $post['post_id']) {
                            echo '<h2>' . $post['post_title'] . '</h2><small>' . $post['post_date'] . '</small>';
                            echo '<p>' . $post['post_content'] . '</p>';
                            echo '<p>' . $post['post_excerpt'] . '</p>'; ?>                  
   
       		<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
       			<?php if($user_ID) : ?>
       				<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Log out &raquo;</a></p>
       			<?php else : ?>
       				<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="10" tabindex="1" />
       				<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
       				<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="10" tabindex="2" />
       				<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
       				<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="10" tabindex="3" />
       				<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>
       			<?php endif; ?>
       			<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="50%" rows="1" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
       			<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
   
       			<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" /></p>
       			<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
       		</form>
   
                            <?php echo '<p>' . $post['comment_content'] . '</p>';
                            echo '<p><small>-' . $post['comment_author'] . '</small></p>';
   
                            }
   
                        $lastPost = $post['post_id'];
                        }
   
                        if ($post['comment_approved']=1) {
                            if ($post['comment_author']){
   
                                 echo '<p>' . $post['comment_content'] . '</p>';
                                 echo '<p><small>-' . $post['comment_author'] . '</small></p>';
                                 }
                            else echo '<p>no comment author</p>';
                       }
                       else echo '<p>comment awaiting approval</p>';
                       echo '<p>' . $post['comment_count'] . '</p>';
   
               echo '</div>';
           }
       }
       get_sidebar ();
       get_footer();
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-challenge/)
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