Using serendipity comments for separate website?

[Mekk]

(Just evaluating options, interested in suggestions)

Apart from serendepity blog, I have a non-blog website. And I think it could make sense to add user comments to some of its pages. One of the ideas is to borrow serendipity comments somehow (technically - by <iframe>ing something, ajax-ing something, or sth similar)

Have anybody tried sth similar? Does this idea make any sense, or may happen to be more work than it is worth?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Phew. That's really so much more work to integrate, than building it yourself.

The s9y comment routine relies heavily on the whole s9y framework, you cannot embed it on itself without ripping a lot of s9y functions, the whole database layer etc. An iframe only will not do, and using ajax would mean you'd need a kind of wrapper to access the s9y framework.

Plus, comments in s9y are attached to Entry-IDs. You would need to create fake entry id's for those pages in the database table, or they could not be associated with comments...

Regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

And if you're going to make a fake entry for the page, you may as well just copy page contents into a real entry. With a bit of theming work, you could duplicate your whole site in Serendipity. Then you get comments, plus searching, the ability to add new pages, and sidebar contents dynamically.