[SOLVED] CB Connect & Facebook Commenting for Public

mjv196 wrote: Is there any other way to implement comments on my articles?...

A. ) Content Bot and Substitution
Not sure, but you might change the ContentBot plugin configuration to AUTHOR mode. If all article authors have a facebookID...

B. ) Social Comments extensions
There is special JED category for Social Comments . Also with many free products. Configuration depends on each product! Some can be restricted to certain categories. Some are just plugins that work on all articles, or might even need plugin syntax. You decide, read carefully...

mjv196 wrote: Is there any other way to implement comments on my articles? I tried just using the Facebook plugin code without the script in a Custom HTML module, it works, but it gives me an error message since I don't include an href code. Since the CB module passes the URL to Facebook it bypasses that problem.

Really using CB Connect to provide such a feature is not the best approach. There are dozens of well written commenting extensions on Joomla.org that provide exactly what you're looking for. I highly recommend using one of them.

Thanks for the responses, a bit disappointing since I didn't want to install another module. However, I found a different way.

I already had Flexi Custom Code installed to insert php code in certain module positions. So I used it to take advantage of the Facebook script inserted on all my pages by the CB Connect login module. In case this helps anyone else, I inserted this code in a Flexi Custom Code module:

<?PHP
$fburl = JURI::current();
echo "<div class='fb-comments' data-href='$fburl' data-num-posts='2' data-width='500'></div>";
?>

It uses the JURI;;current() function built-in to Joomla to provide the current page URL to the Facebook plugin code. Also take note that the cache should be disabled for the module, otherwise you'll get an incorrect page URL value.