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#1 2008-07-19 09:48:15

ultramega

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Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 221

List of authors?

Multiple authors writes to a site. How to show an active list of all authors, where name of the author links to listing of his/her posts?

#2 2008-07-19 10:24:06

miles

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From: Plymouth

Registered: 2008-05-22

Posts: 78

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Re: List of authors?

This might help http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Txp:author_/

#3 2008-07-19 10:49:10

redbot

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Registered: 2006-02-14

Posts: 1,410

Re: List of authors?

ultramega wrote:

Multiple authors writes to a site. How to show an active list of all authors, where name of the author links to listing of his/her posts?

1) Using the attribute “author” with the “txp:article_custom” tag returns a list of articles filtered by author (probably you already know)

2) in a page you can hard code a list of authors (or call them dinamically through php). Like:

<ul><li><a href="<txp:site_url />yoursection?user=john">john</a></li>
<li><a href="<txp:site_url />yoursection?user=mary">mary</a></li> </ul>

3) you can take different routes here. I would go using smd_if in the same page. Something like:

bc: <txp:smd_if field=“urlvar:author” operator=“eq” value=“john”>
<txp:article_custom author=“john” />
</txp:smd_if>

4) you can easily automate it with some php or with the new tag txp:variable (coming with txp 4.07)

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Some Txp stuff

#4 2008-07-21 04:08:12

rsilletti

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From: Spokane WA

Registered: 2004-04-28

Posts: 707

Re: List of authors?

I just wrote up something for the sake of curiosity and I have two questions.

1. Is an “author_list” (like category-list) an idea worth pursuing? it`s untested as yet, but I’ll make it available as a plugin if anyone is interested.

2. given that I don’t see a variable that can be called globally like $thiscategory for authors, is the wraptag (4.0.7) option as available for the tag that follows, or feasible at all? if so, perhaps a nudge in the right direction.

function ras_author_list ($atts, $thing = NULL) {

		extract(lAtts(array(
			'break'        => br,
			'form'         => '',
			'label'        => '',
			'labeltag'     => '',
			'sort'         => 'AuthorId desc',
			'wraptag'      => '',
			'class'        => __FUNCTION__
		), $atts));

 		 $sort = doSlash($sort);

		 $where = " 1 order by ".$sort."";

		 $rs = array_unique(safe_column('AuthorId', 'textpattern', $where));
  			foreach($rs as $row) {
 				$where = "name='".$row."'";
				$title = safe_field('RealName', 'txp_users', $where);
				$out[] = tag($title, 'a', ' href="'.site_url().'author/'.urlencode($title).'/"');
		         }

		if ($out)
			{
				return doLabel($label, $labeltag).doWrap($out, $wraptag, $break, $class);
			}

 return '' ;
}

#5 2008-07-21 06:56:21

ultramega

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Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 221

Re: List of authors?

1. Is an “author_list” (like category-list) an idea worth pursuing?

Definately. Should be built-in, I think :)

#6 2008-07-21 14:02:10

rsilletti

Moderator

From: Spokane WA

Registered: 2004-04-28

Posts: 707

Re: List of authors?

Well, I can`t get filtering by author to work with this tag or the built txp:author tag by url on any of my sites. Perhaps I`m trying to use the functionality the wrong way, but it seems unreliable under both 4.0.4 and 4.0.6 which is what I’ve tested it with. In any case, i wouldn`t run to far with this.