Show field of related page

[mds]

Getting started with ProcessWire and not much off PHP experience …

I've set up a field with authors, which shows a dropdown select of users on my blog entry page. So, in the admin everything works fine.

Now I want to show the author on my blog entry page/ php-template. But in the output it only shows the page id, when I use 

<?php echo $page->author ?>

How do I show a different field from that page, for instance the full name or how do I use the URL of the first image on that User page?

I thought it would as simple as 

<?php echo $page->author->fullname ?>

 

[adrian]

Looks like your field is returning an array of author options, so try:

<?php echo $page->author->first()->fullname ?>

You can also use: last(), or eq(n)

The other approach is to foreach through each author:

foreach($page->author as $author) {
	echo '<p>'.$author->firstname.'</p>;
}

 

[mds]

That works. Thanks!