# Nanoblogger comments


I've been thinking about comments on my blog ever since I started
using `nanoblogger`. While `nb` is great (with VIM and markdown) I'm
starting to miss the comment stuff.

# Comment systems for nb
I've been searching for a good comment system that *I* want to use
for `nb`. It should meet the following criteria:

  1. Simple moderation system. With all the spam nowadays *every*
  comment made should be moderated. 
  2. Should not require a database, the filesystem is enough of a
  database to handle these tasks. This does imply that there will
  be *no* user accounts, nor the possibility to edit your comments.
  3. Simple interface with nanoblogger.

I've looked at `blogkomm`, `haloscan` and `cgicomment`.

 blogkomm
Looks nice, easy to setup, but I could *not* get the moderation to work. Also
I looked like *all* the comments are kept in a single file called
`comments.txt`, but I prefer the comments to be more linked to the
article they belong to.

 haloscan
This is a external site which takes care of the comments. So here I'm I
running `nb` because I prefer to keep things simple and *then* I
outsource my comment system to a site which I do not control and which
does rely on databases and what not.

 cgicomment
Could ... not ... found ... the ... damn ... thing ... anywhere.

# Conclusion
I need to write my own system. I have the following in mind:

 * Simple PHP based system
 * All comments are put in a 'to-be-moderated' directory. A simple
 tool called `nbadmin` will control if a comment is let through. You
 can compare it with `listadmin` which you can use when you use
 `mailman`. If you 'OK' a comment, the comment will be moved to another
 directory,
 * Notification of new comments to 'someone'. This will probably will
 be implemented as a `cron` job which scans the 'to-be-moderated'
 directories.
 * Some PHP functions which allow the display of comments and which
 can be integrated with the rest of nanoblogger.

The implementation will (probably) result in one PHP file called
`comment.php` which needs to be included in your templates. 

I'm still in the early stages of this project and I do not yet know
if it will work like I want.