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My theme has the comment callback, so I guess I got lucky when testing. I’m not clear on why the callback is required for the filter to work on wp_list_comments() though. (I guess the other way to list comments would be a regular comments loop?)

Ok, had a little bit of time to hash out a basic structure. Here’s what I have so far (with most of the credit to t31os). I used the strategy in that link you gave, t31os.

Currently this simply tests to see if a comment is made from a Mozilla agent, and if not it appends “Not…Mozilla…” to the end of the comment.

I’ve still got to finish the coding and make it more efficient, but what do you guys think so far? Tips and criticisms welcomed.

add_filter( 'comment_text', 'mobilesig' ); 

function mobilesig ($mytext) {

//GLOBALS
global $comment;

//VARIABLES
$mytext;
$is_mobile = false;
$str_comment_agent = strtolower($comment->comment_agent);

		// !== OPERATOR TAKES PRECENDENCE. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php
		//EVALUATES TO TRUE OR FALSE (1 OR 0) AND ASSIGNS TO $is_mobile
		$is_mobile = strpos($str_comment_agent, 'moz') !== false;

		if (!$is_mobile) {
			$mytext = get_comment_text( $comment ) . '<p style="border-top: 1px solid #0C14F0; margin: 30px 0 0 0; padding: 2px 0 0 0;"><small>Not Posted From a Mozilla Agent!</small>';
			return $mytext;
		}
		else {
			return $mytext = get_comment_text($comment);
		}
}

Sweet. Good show!

Now to brush up on my regex, which I never really learned properly in the first place! 😉

Ahhh, nice t31os. You posted while I was writing mine.

I’m going to take a look at that tonight. Looks like a great idea.

Would love to get this working just for my own experience.

I looked at storing some sort of marker in the database but I’ve never coded that type of thing so it’s just a bit beyond me at this point.

As far as I can tell, MobilePress should actually do the job of determining if a user is accessing from a mobile device — it even passes this status through variables. And it does some things with it’s own database tables. But as far as I could tell it doesn’t maintain any connection between this status and a comment made under that status.

Which, according to my newbie coding brain, meant I had no easy way (like checking for comment_author or comment_ID, etc.) to track a comment made from a mobile.

Ok, nemo-maritime.

About the best I could do for you is a workaround that only functioned for you. What I mean is that you could create a separate “mobile” login name and post comments from your mobile phone using that login, and I could write a filter that appended the text only to that login’s comments.

But I think the ideal solution — detecting when a comment is made from the mobile version and then remembering that the comment was made from the mobile and displaying as such in the future no matter which version of the site you’re using — is a bit beyond my current coding ability.

Perhaps t3los, stvwlf, Michaelh, or any of the other coding gurus around here have some ideas.

Sorry I couldn’t get it done for ya’.

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