Title: wp-comments-post.php Database Errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp-comments-post.php Database Errors

 *  [wilsonke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilsonke/)
 * (@wilsonke)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-comments-postphp-database-errors/)
 * Apparently this file is being called after clicking the Submit Comment button.
   I edited the PHP file wp-comments-post.php and printed out these variables:
 * print ($comment_post_ID);
    print ($status);
 * and then when it decides what to do based on the status of the post_id i did 
   another print because i wasn’t getting a status
 * if ( empty($status->comment_status) ) {
    do_action(‘comment_id_not_found’, $comment_post_ID);
   print(‘comment_id_not_found’); exit; } elseif ( ‘closed’ == $status->comment_status){
   do_action(‘comment_closed’, $comment_post_ID); die( __(‘Sorry, comments are closed
   for this item.’) ); } elseif ( ‘draft’ == $status->post_status ) { do_action(‘
   comment_on_draft’, $comment_post_ID); exit; }
 * how the heck do I fix the fact that i am getting no status and therefor it is
   forcing me to exit? which tells me that there is something that is failing before
   that, but what? this is the code for the form that is being posted for the comment
   for the comment post ID:
 * <input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”2″ />
 * I’m getting a comment_post_ID of 0 and no status value at all when the form posts
   and runs wp-comments-posts.php? Can someone help? It would be greatly appreciated.
   I would like to enable comments on my blog. I’m running MySQL 5.0.27 and PHP 
   5.2 on a MS 2000 Advanced Server with IIS 5.1. Thanks.`

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 *  Thread Starter [wilsonke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilsonke/)
 * (@wilsonke)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-comments-postphp-database-errors/#post-506702)
 * So, I went into the database and ran the select query that is in the wp_comments_posts.
   php script to return the status of the actual post that being commented on.
 * Apparently since it is setting the comment_post_id to zero some how (even though
   it’s 2 in the database) it is returning the null value for the post_status.
 * For example I had the comment_post_id and status variable print and ran it, which
   returned a value of 0 for the comment_post_id and null for the status.
 * I went to the php script file and copied and pasted the SQL that it was using
   to retrieve the status of the post and opened up MySQL query browser and connected
   to the database using my user. I ran:
 * SELECT * FROM wp_posts;
 * I was looking for the post that I was trying to comment on and found that the
   ID that it was using in the SQL query in the wp_comments_posts.php file was looking
   for the post with the ID of 0.
 * For example:
 * SELECT post_status, comment_status FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = ‘$comment_post_ID’
 * So I am wondering if I just create a post with the ID of 0 will that fix my problem?
 *  Thread Starter [wilsonke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilsonke/)
 * (@wilsonke)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-comments-postphp-database-errors/#post-506703)
 * But yeah the main problem with the posting of comments is that it isn’t retrieving
   the value of the hidden input in the form with the name comment_post_id and the
   value that is equal to the id of the post. Instead it is setting it to zero when
   running this code:
 * $comment_post_ID = (int) $_POST[‘comment_post_ID’];

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-comments-postphp-database-errors/#post-506703)
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