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Ben Koren
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10 years 4 months ago #135879 by Ben Koren

Show Author name in latest items from... menu item was created by Ben Koren

Hello,
i made my home page to use menu item type "Latest items from.. (user or category), and its show 3 latest article from category, but without the name of the Author, "Written By Author Name" how can i display the name of the Author in this menu item type ?

i went to the file "latest_item.php" and i tried to add manually this code:

<?php if($this->item->params->get('catItemAuthor')): ?>
		<!-- Item Author -->
		<span class="catItemAuthor">
			<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::writtenBy($this->item->author->profile->gender); ?> 
			<?php if(isset($this->item->author->link) && $this->item->author->link): ?>
			<?php echo $this->item->author->name; ?>
			<?php else: ?>
			<?php echo $this->item->author->name; ?>
			<?php endif; ?>
		</span>
		<?php endif; ?>
  </div>

but its only shows me the "Written By" without the author name (user name) ?

please advice ? how can i display it ?

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Krikor Boghossian
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10 years 4 months ago #135894 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

Hello,

You should use this to echo the name of the author.

$this->item->authorName

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Ben Koren
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10 years 4 months ago #135896 by Ben Koren

Replied by Ben Koren on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

hello and thank you for replaying very fast!
please forgive me but i am no PHP expert
were exactly i need to put the code in this code and what to remove from this code ? how do i modify ?

this is the code

<?php if($this->item->params->get('catItemAuthor')): ?>
		<!-- Item Author -->
		<span class="catItemAuthor">
			<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::writtenBy($this->item->author->profile->gender); ?> 
			<?php if(isset($this->item->author->link) && $this->item->author->link): ?>
			<?php echo $this->item->author->name; ?>
			<?php else: ?>
			<?php echo $this->item->author->name; ?>
			<?php endif; ?>
		</span>
		<?php endif; ?>
  </div>

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Krikor Boghossian
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10 years 4 months ago #135928 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

You should try something like this:

<span class="catItemAuthor">
  <?php echo K2HelperUtilities::writtenBy($this->item->author->profile->gender); ?>
  <?php echo $this->item->authorName; ?>
</span>

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Ben Koren
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10 years 4 months ago #135999 by Ben Koren

Replied by Ben Koren on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

hello
sorry but its still not working for me
its only shows ״Written By״ without the name of the Author

please advice ?

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alexandria
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10 years 4 months ago - 10 years 4 months ago #136012 by alexandria

Replied by alexandria on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

Hello,
Maybe you can try this

<!-- Item Author -->			
		<?php
$author = JFactory::getUser($this->item->created_by);	
$author->link = JRoute::_(K2HelperRoute::getUserRoute($this->item->created_by)); ?>
<?php echo JText::_('K2_WRITTEN_BY').' '; ?><a rel="author" href="<?php echo $author->link; ?>"><?php echo $author->name; ?></a>

Last edit: 10 years 4 months ago by alexandria.

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Ben Koren
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10 years 4 months ago #136014 by Ben Koren

Replied by Ben Koren on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

Thank You all, the last solution works for me.
great support and great component!

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Krikor Boghossian
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10 years 4 months ago #136029 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Show Author name in latest items from... menu item

Thank you for your kind words Ben.

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