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9 years 6 months ago #132315 by George Nasis
hallo there!

i notice that in comments, what is displayed is the commenter`s name and not username. although in item.php
there is
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9 years 6 months ago #132316 by Krikor Boghossian
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The $this->item... will return information regarding this particular item not the comment.

You need to do a var_dump of $comment and check if the object contains that element.
If it doesn't then you will have to do a custom SQL query.

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9 years 6 months ago - 9 years 6 months ago #132317 by George Nasis
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hallo!

thanks for the response!

the table of the cooments contains itemID(the item where the comment done), userID, and userName(the realname) and other information which don`t help

i am not familiar with this one..
does anyone know how to retrieve the username of userID of this table?or from the table with items?

in mod_k2_comments there is option if username or name will be displayed, but in comments.php the code is
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9 years 5 months ago #132318 by Bart Coenen
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Hi,

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

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9 years 5 months ago - 9 years 5 months ago #132319 by George Nasis
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hi,

nothing yet.. :/

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9 years 5 months ago #132320 by Krikor Boghossian
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what does the var_dump of $comment print?

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9 years 5 months ago #132321 by George Nasis
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hallo krikor,

how can i check this?

thank you

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9 years 5 months ago #132322 by Krikor Boghossian
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in the comments loop (item.php)

use this snippet
<pre><?php echo var_dump($comment); ?></pre>

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

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9 years 5 months ago #132323 by George Nasis
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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?

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9 years 5 months ago #132324 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: display comment author username not name
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

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