Help with displaying Page Owner in blog entry

Permalink May 25, 2014 at 3:26 PM

I've seen this requested before - but I haven't found a working solution yet...

I want to display the "Owner" (set through properties/attributes) as the "Author" of a blog entry. I see that the author is obtained here (in blog_entry.php):

<div class="pageSection">
<h1><?php  echo $c->getCollectionName(); ?></h1>
<p class="meta"><?php  echo t('Posted by')?> <?php  echo $c->getVersionObject()->getVersionAuthorUserName(); ?> on <?php  echo $c->getCollectionDatePublic('F j, Y'); ?></p>      
</div>

This echos the original creator of the page. If the editor "edits" the blog post, they become the "Author".

I want to have a site editor enter or edit a blog post for another user and set the "Owner" attribute (so that the appropriate user is shown as the "Author"). Is there a way to do display the "Owner" attribute rather than the creator or last editor of the page? I assume I'll have to do something similar in the page list (for the blog index to use the "Owner")?

Shawn

srk replied on May 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm Permalink Reply

I did find that:

getCollectionUserID()

instead of

getVersionAuthorUserName()

does get me closer. But that gives the user ID (number)... I need to get the name now.

hutman replied on May 25, 2014 at 7:57 pm Permalink Best Answer Reply

Unfortunately you're going to need to do this in a few steps, this should work.

$userID = $c->getCollectionUserID();
$u = User::getByUserID($userID);
$userName = $u->getUserName();

srk replied on May 25, 2014 at 8:51 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks for the reply. I tried:

<div class="pageSection">
   <h1><?php  echo $c->getCollectionName(); ?></h1>
   <p class="meta"><?php  echo t('Posted by')?> 
   <?php $userID = $c->getCollectionUserID();
   $u = User::getByUserID($userID);
   $userName = $u->getUserName();
   echo $username; ?> on <?php  echo $c->getCollectionDatePublic('F j, Y'); ?></p>      
</div>

but it doesn't output anything. At least it's not throwing an error, so I might be closer! I'm not confident/competent enough to be sure my syntax is correct.

hutman replied on May 25, 2014 at 9:46 pm Permalink Reply

This all looks good except that your $userName variable doesn't match case in both places. If you match the case in both places it should work.

srk replied on May 26, 2014 at 11:36 am Permalink Reply

Yep. Syntax got me! This works just as I intended. I applied it similarly to the page list and that works too.
Thanks so much.

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