By matt_paz on

I'm working on a site where I'd like to allow (pseudo) Anonymous commenting. I'm hoping to only show the ability to comment where users have x cookie (a cookie that was set on another site). Any ideas for the best place for me to start? I only want to display the ability to comment if users have x cookie ... otherwise display the "login to comment" text

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matt_paz commented

I just figured it out ... was much easier than I expected for my purposes.

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bslade commented

So, what did you figure out? I'm curious about this from an anti-spam point of view. I'm helping admin a site that wants to allow anonymous comments, but wants to prevent spammers. We might use "captcha's", but they're apparently a little tricky to install for Drupal.

Thanks
Ben in DC
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matt_paz commented

Well, I didn't really allow anonymous commenting. I just wanted to allow users that had been logged in elsewhere to comment without having to login to drupal. I thought this would be an easier near term step than integrating our authentication mechanism. Basically, I just added a few checks for some cookies that i had set from another login and then used data from them to pre-populate information from the anonymous user comment fields.