allow admins to assign anonymous comments to registered users

that's IMO a feature and thea means it can only get into Druapl 6.

This functionality looks good.

What is the second chunk for? Is that intentional?

The UI looks a bit awkward to me. It might look better if the 'assigned to user' would be shown in a block next to the anonymous user stuff. Not quite sure.

The functionality is really useful, but I'd like to hear other people's ideas about this, and the UI in particular.

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ax: that looks somewhat nicer, yes! :)

I agree that this is a desired functionality to be able to change/add the author.

However the interface confuses me. If the comment is by a anonymous the 'Authored by' field is empty. Now I have two options to enter a name, 'Authored by' and 'Assign to user'. I would rather see here only one field in which to enter the name or change an existing name.

#22 is much better, thanks.

No longer applies, moving this to D7 queue.

Applying patch for 5.x in #3 gives:

[root@host comment]# patch *.patch
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file comment_db_rewrite_sql_backport5.patch
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1483.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1649.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file comment_db_rewrite_sql_backport5.patch.rej
[root@host comment]#

I see this moved to 7.x, but will it also work for 5.x some day?

Sorry I am new to patch thing :)
How do apply this patch?
I have drupal 6.9 running on my machine and maybe planning to upgrade to 6.10 and if that happens will I need to apply the patch again?

Best Regards,
elitefox

+1 on adding this feature to 7.x.

I think the whole "assign to registered user" bit is unnecessary. When an admin edits a node we just use the "authored by" autocomplete field to change the creator. Can't we just make the "Authored by" field act the same way as the node/*/edit form?

@ax

Sorry that was my first post, thought my drupal core version is needed to be stated =)

hope you will forgive me :(

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Here's a patch for 6.17 if anyone is interested. Not a patch from CVS.
YMMV, It works for me. I'm slowly working on 7 but hope someone will beat me to it ;)

Error on applying the last patch: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting ']' in /usr/drupal/drupal6/modules/comment/comment.module on line 1204

Fixed the problem.

Thanks

Now it works correctly, thanks. The only caveat is that if you set "Anonymous posters must leave their contact information" then it still spits out name required notice and you can not assign anonymous comment to a registered user. The option in comment settings for a content type should be different than "must leave".

I hope this one will be committed to the core.

Moving to 8.x

I believe one of these two nodes should be marked as duplicate to concentrate all the efforts to solve the issue at one place:

#936844: Cannot override comment author to or from Anonymous Posted by skyredwang on October 9, 2010 at 8:04am and has 21 comments to the moment
#129822: allow admins to assign anonymous comments to registered users Posted by ax on March 21, 2007 at 8:22am and has 38 comments to the moment

I got around the "must leave contact information" problem by adding the condition !$edit['author'] to the following else if:

      else if (variable_get('comment_anonymous_'. $node->type, COMMENT_ANONYMOUS_MAYNOT_CONTACT) == COMMENT_ANONYMOUS_MUST_CONTACT) {
        form_set_error('name', t('You have to leave your name.'));
      }

This might not be the right way to do it . . .

I would love to see this functionality added to core. In the meantime, does anyone know of a module to do it?

-Josh

Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

Wanted to bump this 1 more time before closing.

Since it's been 11 years without movement or interest. And was a feature request going to close out. Can always be closed out.