Link to author's page? (profile pages)

[Patrik]

Hi,

In short, what I'm looking for is profile pages for all registered users, that are visible to anyone visiting the site.

Long version:

I would like to link to the author's (user) page from a blog entry. I'm using the createdUser object to retrieve the user name, and then construct a link that looks something like this: /author/{$page->createdUser->name}

Creating the link is obviously no problem, but how do I make that actual page exist without creating pages manually for all the users?

Apologies if this topic has been up before. I have searched the forums, bit couldn't find an anwser.

Regards,

Patrik

[Wanze]

Hi patrik,

You can use urlSegments for this case.

In your template used by the /author/ page, enable urlSegments in the Template config.

Then in the template file (example code):

if ($input->urlSegment1) {
  $username = $sanitizer->selectorValue($input->urlSegment1);
  // Maybe you need to add 'check_access=0' to your selector if also guest users can see this page...
  $u = $users->get($username);
  if ($u->id) {
    // Display the information about user
  } else {
    throw new Wire404Exception();
  }
}

// No urlSegment passed - throw a 404 or output some message

[diogo]

With url segments (http://processwire.com/api/variables/input/ scroll to the middle of the page). Allow them on the authors page template, and on this template's file put something like this:

if ($input->urlSegment1) {

    ​$username = sanitizer->name($input->urlSegment1);
    $userpage = $pages->get(name=​$username, template=user, include=all);

    if ($userpage->id) {

        // echo the user info. these would be custom fields added to the "user" template
        echo "<h2>{$userpage->first_name} {$userpage->last_name}</h2>";
        echo "<p>{$userpage->bio}</p>";
    }
}

You can add any info you want to the users pages by adding fields to the "user" template (on the templates page, under "filters", enable "show system templates?") 

Edit: Wanze beat me again. He beats everyone lately

Edit2: corrected my code to make the check for guest visitors that Wanze refered, except that I'm using $pages instead of $users to get the user page

[onjegolders]

For the pages belonging to an author I think you can use the following selector

created_users_id= (as per cheatsheet)

so $auth_pages = $pages->find("created_users_id=$userpage->id");

Not tested.

[Patrik]

Brilliant! Thanks a lot for the solution and super quick replies!

As a newbie here, I'm blown away by both the capabilities of PW and the top-notch community!