Fatal Error on blog_entry.php

Permalink October 10, 2014 at 4:34 PM

I wanted my blog pages to display the blog author's name so I created a text attribute called "author". I then changed in blog_entry.php

By <?php echo $userName; ?>

to

By <?php $c = Page::getCurrentPage();
$uID = $c->getCollectionUserID();
$ui = UserInfo::getByID($uID);
print $ui->getAttribute('author'); ?>

and it works fine. You can see it in action here:
http://www.knowleskreative.com/blog/dont-hire-web-designer-you-need...

However, when I go to Dashboard -> Pages & Themes -> Page Types
and click on Defaults for blog_entry I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on a non-object in /home5/keithkno/public_html/knowleskreative/themes/default/blog_entry.php on line 40

If I revert the lines of code above the error goes away but so does my author's name from the blog article.

Can this be fixed?
Thanks.

Mnkras replied on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:35 pm Permalink Best Answer Reply

<?php
$c = Page::getCurrentPage();
if(is_object($c)) {
    $uID = $c->getCollectionUserID();
    $ui = UserInfo::getByID($uID);
    if(is_object($ui)) {
        print $ui->getAttribute('author');
    } else {
        print t('Unknown User');
    }
}
?>