[pmwiki-users] customizing the output for commentboxstyled

[Bronwyn Boltwood]

I'm setting up a blog that uses commentboxstyled.  I want the entire
comment contained in one div.  Normally there are two: messagehead and
messageitem.  In my config.php file, I declare

$MPItemStartFmt = '';
$CommentStyles = 0; #turn off script's built-in CSS for comments
include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/blogsimple/commentboxstyled.php");
#commenting features

That *should* get rid of the messageitem div, leaving everything
enclosed in messagehead.  It doesn't.  I'm still getting a messageitem
div.  Editing the script directly to change this line

   SDV($MPItemStartFmt,">>messageitem<<\n");

to this

   SDV($MPItemStartFmt,"");

does work.  Any ideas why just declaring the variable in the config
file does not?

Thanks, Bronwyn