Friendly Author Links
Questions answered by this recipe
- How can I let authors change their names?
- I'm using an authentication system and
$Author=$AuthId;
Description
Displays author page titles as link text for all automatic author links.
Installation
Add FriendlyAuthorLinks.php to your installation (as cookbook/FriendlyAuthorLinks.php) then add the following to your config.php:
include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/FriendlyAuthorLinks.php");
If you want a one-to-one correspondence between credentials and author names (usually for accountability or authorship rights):
- Ensure that you have some form of
$Author=$AuthId;$Author= $LOOKUP_TABLE[$AuthId];FriendlyAuthorLinks.php. - Then, in Site.EditForm, replace
withHomePageto replace the Author input box with the author's chosen name (as the$Author
Configuration
You can change $CurrentTimeTimeFmt if you like, but make sure to do so before including this recipe. Note: this only affects ~~~~.
Usage
Just use as normal. The following are transparently changed:
- Author links in RecentChanges
- Author links in signatures.
- Author names in page history (
?action=diff).
Notes
PHP doesn't support namespaces, so I assumed that nobody else would use variables starting with $FriendlyAuthorLinks
To do
Show the Friendly Author Name inDone!?action=diff.I do not know how to get the title of another page from PHP. wizzwizz4Solved.I do not think it possible to do this simply by changing$DiffStartFmt$FmtPVFor some reason,Still don't know why, but it doesn't happen any more. :-DResolvePageNameseems to trigger a redirect. I don't know why. wizzwizz4
Change log / Release notes
- 2018-01-01: Added page history support.
- 2017-12-28: Initial release.
Contributors
wizzwizz4 wrote most of it, but a substantial amount of that is boilerplate.
The signature functionality (~~~ and ~~~~) is derived from Pm's author.php.
Comments
See discussion at FriendlyAuthorLinks-Talk
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