Hi,

Did you find a solution to this? I have the same wish (would like to display the username, not the name).

hi,

nothing yet.. :/

what does the var_dump of $comment print?

hallo krikor,

how can i check this?

thank you

in the comments loop (item.php)

use this snippet
This will give you all of the object's elements which you can use.

ok i run it.
and i have this

object(stdClass)#989 (12) { ["id"]=> string(2) "49" ["itemID"]=> string(2) "62" ["userID"]=> string(3) "764" ["userName"]=> string(14) "giorgos nasis2" ["commentDate"]=> string(19) "2014-09-26 07:32:09" ["commentText"]=> string(26) "τι username βγάζει" ["commentEmail"]=> string(21) "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." ["commentURL"]=> string(0) "" ["published"]=> string(1) "1" ["userImage"]=> string(63) "www.proteino.gr/images/comprofiler/764_5422ebb4be78f.jpg" ["userLink"]=> string(44) "www.proteino.gr/cbprofile/userprofile" ["reportUserLink"]=> string(69) "/psyxagwgia/vivlio/mythistorima/comments/reportSpammer/764?format=raw" }


something that i already new from the table $comments in phpmyadmin..

what next?

thank you

Now you know the userID which is in this example 764.
You can use Joomla!'s getUser function to display the user's data.

docs.joomla.org/Accessing_the_current_user_object

trully thank you for your respnse Krikor,

i did it.
i add $user = JFactory::getUser(); in the loop but know i have for every comment the same author..
it is so close to be done..any last advice?

thank you

You need to pass the userId agument like the example in the URL

eg:

where 99 is your userID

PERFECT!!!
IT WORKED!
$user = JFactory::getUser($comment->userID);

thank you very very much!

You 're welcome George.

really do not misunderstand me and i already apologized if that i will say is offending you

i imagine that this line
<?php $user = JFactory::getUser($comment->userID); ?>
and this
<?php echo $user->username; ?>

was the answer of the very beginning of the forum.
Why didn`t you state that?i asked it because with too many responses you lost more time.
so two things i can imagine
1. it is my fault that from beginning i didn`t clear what i ask for
2. it is a policy of the administrators to search a little by themselves to understand how joomla,k2,php and tables are combining

:)

i repeat do not misunderstand me
really thank you anyway

best regards

You have to understand that we are here to help a really large number of people here every day.

I asked the var_dump because it is quite frankly impossible to remember what each object in K2 contains. I also do not want to give any wrong answers.

I can assist you in custom parts of your projects but your (by your I mean the user's) participation is needed. It is impossible to search the DB or perform template overrides for each single request.

This is the difference between getting help over a free forum and hiring a developer.

I personally try to help each member of the forum and avoid the "Go hire a developer" answers but users have to keep in their mind that you are not receiving help over a free product and you (again replace you with the user) have not hired a dev for their custom project.

I Hope I did not bore you with my rant.

Absolutely you were not tiring. Your answer is really helpful and it was necessary.
I understand you 100% and we all really thank you for your effort and for your contribution here.
How can somenoe hire you ? :)

best regards!

Thanks George I really appreciate this.

Thank you for the request but at this point it would be unprofessional of me to offer commercial services from this forum.
However I can refer you to ideasencoded.gr/ which I can personally guarantee that she knows her way around K2. Trust me on this one :)

nice to hear that!

thanx once again Krikor!

best regards!

Nice that you found the solution (and a funny conversation :lol: ).

To me however it is not yet clear what to do to get this result. Can someone describe to me which lines in which file I have to alter?