Anonymous forum topics with name

Mathio, did you solve anonymous forum topic, like email etc?

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Not of immediate help, but this is on the to do list for advanced forum. I don't want to deal with an extra table, so I'm going to go with CCK for the fields.

Michelle

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I'm not sure about everyone else, but what I'm seeking is the exact same functionality as we see with comments for unregistered guests. Meaning a Name field, an email field, and a website URL field.

I can create all these as plain text cck fields no problem, but they need to retain the data for the guest user each time they visit, so it would have to be cookie-based. and the fields would not be visible for registered users.

These are the issues I'm facing. Ideally I'd like these for any content type, not just forum topics.

Well if it is causing you pain, it might cause me to jump out the fourth floor window here! lol

Would there be a way to cheat?

Most people don't want the subject in replies. Use that as a name field, not show it but display it where anon would go?

But then what do you do for a Forum topic... of course you keep anons from creating forum topics but you are back to limiting participation again....

Why am I doing this on a Friday night. Is there a Drupal get a life module?

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Here's my solution, not sure if it's the best but it works for me:

- I've added two cck fields to my forum cck: Your Name (yourname) and Your E-mail address (yourmail).
- Under admin/content/node-settings (for default settings):
+ Submitted by appearance: By [author-name] on [d] [mon], [yyyy]
+ Comment submitted by appearance: By [comment-author-name] on [comment-d] [comment-mon], [comment-yyyy]
- Under admin/content/node-type/forum (for forum cck settings):
+ Submitted by appearance: By[field_yourname-formatted] on[d] [mon], [yyyy]
+ Comment settings -> submitted by appearance: leave empty for default

This works nicely however in the forum overview page (where all topics are listed) /forum it will still say: 8 hours 42 min ago by anonymous
Therefore I have added this sniplet to my template.php, this will strip the 'by Anonymous' or 'by Username' completely from these pages:

function forum_preprocess(&$variables) {
	if(is_array($variables['forums'])) {
		foreach($variables['forums'] as $topic) {
			$topic->created = current(explode('<br />', $topic->created));
			$topic->last_reply = current(explode('<br />', $topic->last_reply));
		}
	}	
	if(is_array($variables['topics'])) {
		foreach($variables['topics'] as $topic) {
			$topic->created = current(explode('<br />', $topic->created));
			$topic->last_reply = current(explode('<br />', $topic->last_reply));
		}
	}	
}

Another solution might be somthing like this, yet it might cause some performance issues:

function forum_preprocess(&$variables) {
	if(is_array($variables['forums'])) {
		foreach($variables['forums'] as $topic) {
			$topic->created = current(explode('<br />', $topic->created));
			$topic->last_reply = current(explode('<br />', $topic->last_reply));
		}
	}	
	if(is_array($variables['topics'])) {
		foreach($variables['topics'] as $topic) {
			$topic->last_reply = current(explode('<br />', $topic->last_reply));
			if(empty($topic->name)) {
				$node = node_load($topic->nid);
				$topic->created = str_replace('Anonymous', $node->field_uwnaam[0]['value'], $topic->created);
			}
		}
	}	
}

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Bartezz

This helped! My knowledge of php is close to non-existent at this point, but I added something to the template.php (I only revised the code from Bartezz), and this fixed the "Topic List" page to reflect my CCK field_yourname input instead of "Anonymous".

However, I've spent the past few hours researching a way to change the "author-name" (in the author pane) of the actual forum topic with my CCK input (I'd even be happy to delete it altogether), and I guess I'm just in over my head. I might have to accept that this level of functionality is limited to developers/programmers (and I really wish I possessed the knowledge to call myself one.)

If by chance you have any more light to shed, I'd be very, very grateful :)

Thanks for your help.