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We’re developing a site with commeting for each article. While testing the site within our office, we noticed the comments module was saving one users e-mail and displaying it on every computer in the office.

Are a commenter’s details remembered via IP? If so can this be switched off or changed so that it is cookie based? I’ve done multiple searches and couldn’t find a solution.

Thanks for your time,

John

Are you sure this is not just showing the details of a logged-in user?

I don’t think so. Have been trying it on other computers that have never logged into the site and the keep seeing the e-mail address

Hi John

It sounds like something is being saved in the templates.
Can you share how you have your comments set up in the templates?
Also could you provide us with the version and build numbers of your copy of ExpressionEngine.

Thank you.

Hi Barry,

Thanks for your help. Its EE Version 2.1.3 Build 20101220

This is the comment form code within the {exp:channel:entries} block;

<h2>Leave a comment</h2>
<p>        <br />
        {exp:comment:form class="form-comments"}</p>

<p>            {if logged_out}</p>

<p>            <div class="input"><br />
                <label for="name">Name</label><br />
                <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" id="name"/><br />
            </div><br />
        <br />
            <div class="input"><br />
                <label for="email">Email</label><br />
                <input type="email" name="email" value="{email}" id="email"/><br />
            </div><br />
        <br />
            {/if}<br />
        <br />
            <div class="textarea"><br />
                <label for="comment">Comment</label><br />
                <textarea rows="6" name="comment" id="comment">{comment}</textarea><br />
            </div><br />
        <br />
            {if captcha}<br />
        <br />
            <div class="input"><br />
                <label for="captcha">{captcha}</label><br />
                <input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" id="captcha"/><br />
            </div></p>

<p>            {/if}</p>

<p>            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="button" /></p>

<p>        {/exp:comment:form}

... value="{email}"

will pre-fill the form field with the email address of the currently logged-in member. Are you sure that’s not what you are seeing?

No, this doesn’t seem to be it. The e-mail appears on different computers even when the user has not ever logged in before, this problem doesn’t seem to be isolated to our office network as previously thought, its happening on my home PC too.

Problem solved, I was incorrectly including the comments block within the channel entries block - it was displaying the author’s e-mail in that field.

Very glad to see you were able to solve this. Please post again as needed.