The title is fairly self-explanatory. Essentially, any comment posted to a blog entry will show that it was submitted by the blog post author, NOT the comment author. Ownership and author displayed during editing appears to be correct. I have not verified if there are any issues with database records regarding this bug.

The code in painted/comment.tpl.php causing the bug is:

        <div class="submitted">
            <?php echo t('!date by !name', array('!date' =>
format_date($comment->timestamp, 'medium'), '!name' => theme('username',
$node))); ?>
        </div>

The same template from the bluemarine theme provides working code for comment author attribution. A very simple fix to the above using code from bluemarine is:

        <div class="submitted">
<!--            <?php echo t('!date by !name', array('!date' =>
format_date($comment->timestamp, 'medium'), '!name' => theme('username',
$node))); ?> -->
<?php print $submitted; ?>
        </div>

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Assigned: Unassigned »
Status: Active » Needs review

Cool, I totally overlooked that detail.
I'll commit the fix asap

evilalien’s picture

evilalien commented

Oh, it's in 1.3 too, just confirmed :)

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

fix commited to dev

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

herculesksp’s picture

herculesksp commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I dont believe that is really a fix. That is just a workaround. You are removing the theming by commenting out that code. Oh and it is still not fixed in the latest 6.x-1.3 release.

Anyway, I spent some time with this today and I found a solution. A different one if you may please.

In the part of the code, in line 13, that towards the end, says
theme('username', $node)

the $node returns the name of the author. Instead replace this with the code snippet
theme('username', $comment)

As simple as that. $comment contains the author name of that comment itself. And this will be extracted and is themed appropriately.

Now if someone can either release a patch or fix this in the future releases, it would be great. At least until I read about creating patches and how to do bug fixes, if someone else can do it instead.

Many thanks,
Prashanth.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

The fix is in the dev version, submited in december, but there is no official version yet.

<?php echo t('!date by !name', array('!date' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'medium'), '!name' => theme('username', $comment))); ?>

Use the dev version, it is stable.